The Renderfarm

@GiantCowFilms please dont take it personally (like you tend to do) but my guess is that the blender folks here dont want competition. It would be kind of like apple advertising the galaxy s6. Or firefox, making a tech demo that only worked in chrome! We all like blender and want this site to flourish on SE.

GiantCowFilms

True, seems selfish though

David

better message to star:

Space Pizza - by CharlesL and David

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Space Pizza - by CharlesL and David

24 hours ago, 41 minutes total – 220 messages, 4 users, 0 stars

Bookmarked 23 hours ago by David

it just occurred to me: WHY AM I UP VOTING ADS??

GiantCowFilms

?

X-27

because you love advertisements, and hate programs like Adbock+

GiantCowFilms

@David Because you believe in what they stand for

and want the message to be heard!

David

3:33 PM

but i dont like ads!

GiantCowFilms

and because GiantCowFilms asked you to :P

@David They are harmless in this case, well designed, relevant and appealing.

David

@GiantCowFilms I know, I know. it keeps the web open and free, and all. But after so many years of really bad, over the top, in your face, CLICK HERE ads, I'm predisposed to not like any of them.

GiantCowFilms

Get over it! These are not harmful

;D

@gandalf3

Dynamic to the core!!!!!!!!!

:D :D :D

David

sourceforge is the site that pushed me over the edge. The site is literately 8ish sec slower without an add block.

GiantCowFilms

Have you ever seen dictionary.com

not as as bad as they used to be

David

3:39 PM

weather.com use to be really bad too

GiantCowFilms

They used to have 3-4 animated adds to the page

David

lol, I go to dictionary, and see lots of white space. :)

GiantCowFilms

@David but these adds are pngs, not flash

and they aren't ugly

David

@GiantCowFilms I know, and adblockplus will not kill these.

GiantCowFilms

You do know that these adds could allow us to have our own featured image contest?

being that the image would be tiny

David

3:42 PM

@GiantCowFilms how so?

GiantCowFilms

Dynamically replace the add with the winning image

something like giantcowfilms.com/bsewinningimage.png

and they I can replace the image with a new one each week

David

@GiantCowFilms do we have any control over when the ad gets changed?

GiantCowFilms

@David what do you mean?

David

@GiantCowFilms what makes you think we can change the image?

GiantCowFilms

The fact that it will take it directly off the server

David

3:44 PM

how often does SE change the ad's picture?

GiantCowFilms

without using stack.imgur.com

@David we change the add image

David

@GiantCowFilms I highly doubt SE will go along with that.

GiantCowFilms

@David The be add already does that :P

(changes the count)

X-27

Um.. you do know that it Must be an image from i.stack.imigur.......

GiantCowFilms

Nope!

it works just fine!

David

3:45 PM

@GiantCowFilms yes, and SE has not run it. They also say "Must be hosted through our standard image uploader (imgur)"

GiantCowFilms

@David ;D but others are using dynamic adds just fine

David

@GiantCowFilms where?

GiantCowFilms

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A: Community Promotion Ads - 2015

David

I need the proof (then again with my ad blocker I wonder if I can see them :))

GiantCowFilms

They have been know to work

trying to grab a shot now

David

3:48 PM

@GiantCowFilms No need

meta.movies.stackexchange.com/ads/display/1745

I see

GiantCowFilms

meta.movies.stackexchange.com/ads/display/1745

David

@GiantCowFilms you really try to push the limits of SE. First no border, then 2x the size, now hosted on your server. wow!

GiantCowFilms

@David ;D

I added the border

David

@GiantCowFilms I posted that 2mins ago

GiantCowFilms

I only looked back when I was done trying to find it, XD

David

3:51 PM

@GiantCowFilms the link is always at the bottom of the meta question where the ads get voted on.

GiantCowFilms

Did you know my 3D graphics add has probably been seen by at least 5,000 people. That is frightening

David

:( no strike through

GiantCowFilms

@David Oh

My way was much more complex

David

@GiantCowFilms I bet

GiantCowFilms

first I found the graphic desing one

then figured out what the ID in the url ment

then applied it to movies

David

3:52 PM

@GiantCowFilms what does it mean?

GiantCowFilms

@David Matches the question url for the community adds post on meta

David

bingo

GiantCowFilms

http://meta.graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/ads/display/**1340**

http://meta.graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/**1340**/

David

@GiantCowFilms my way ^^

GiantCowFilms

lol

David

4:03 PM

hey @X-27 are you going to do a "dumb question" contest round 2?

GiantCowFilms

4:13 PM

Why?

X-27

@David Depends

Star this if you want another Bad Question contest

5

if I get 7 or more stars, it is round 2!

GiantCowFilms

@X-27 7 stars rarely happens, 5 would be more viable

(david,me,novice,gandlaf,radish,tardis)

X-27

4:47 PM

ok, make it 5

GiantCowFilms

5:03 PM

@X-27 I will star it if I can recycle old jokes

X-27

6:24 PM

How would this do as an advertisement?

@gandalf3 @David Delete the first one, it has been updated

gandalf3

No animated gifs ~~unfortunately~~

X-27

Thanks

still, it is funny

gandalf3

XD

GiantCowFilms

6:53 PM

@gandalf3 did you see the dynamic add is working :D

gandalf3

Yay!

*ad

GiantCowFilms

7:39 PM

Oh oh

ad

...ad

...I have a real problem

X-27

8:19 PM

Newest version!

@David @gandalf3 Would either one of you cancel the star and delete the first version? (it looks worst than my latest version)

David

@X-27 yep

gandalf3

?

X-27

thanks

Now the house keeps shaking right up to the nuclear blast, and the roof starts to shake off right before the Blewey

David

good answers with no UVs make me sad. :( (especially when the answer is mine)

GiantCowFilms

@David Begging for votes are you?

I'm sure this is a duplicate: blender.stackexchange.com/q/38482/3127

gandalf3

8:36 PM

This maybe?

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Q: How can I rotate an object's coordinate system without rotating the object?

I have the following situation with a chimney on a roof: I'd like to slide the chimney around on the plane parallel to the roof. One way I could accomplish this would be if I could somehow rotate the chimney's coordinate axes to be parallel to the slope of the roof, however I don't know how to...

GiantCowFilms

No

I mean a "perfect duplicate"

David

9:09 PM

@GiantCowFilms you've taught me well.

GiantCowFilms

@David *taught :P

David

grr. spelling...

GiantCowFilms

Not as bad as my ad problem

Man this UI theme is ugly: blender.stackexchange.com/a/38485/3127

David

you just have to remember to subtract the extra D from add after you have added it, then you will get out of math and will have an ad.

GiantCowFilms

Lol

David

9:12 PM

@GiantCowFilms the huge gold arrows do not help.

GiantCowFilms

@David indeed

David

@GiantCowFilms this picture shows it better blender.stackexchange.com/a/38488/2217

David

9:41 PM

@cegaton I'm here

TARDIS Maker

10:17 PM

Wow

No replies in several hours

never mind

My page wasn't updated properly

@David Sorry, Family (and money) come first

@GiantCowFilms Beard care products

GiantCowFilms

10:37 PM

@TARDISMaker Interesting

TARDIS Maker

Yup

When I first heard about it from my sister, I thought she was joking,

or that it was a way to be a missionary

CharlesL

@X-27 lol

@gandalf3 almost ready to release V1.0 of the lossy text compressor! github.com/charles-l/ltc

gandalf3

\o/

CharlesL

All we need to do is make it work with large files (i'm working on it now), then write a silly README

Then it's going all over the internetz

r/programming, hacker news, you name it

David

@TARDISMaker huh?

@TARDISMaker money, hmm. as in $$$ 4 u

CharlesL

10:52 PM

the encoding right now uses only a single byte so we're limited to about 255 words

:P

TARDIS Maker

@David I was paid to do it

David

@TARDISMaker to do what?

TARDIS Maker

@David To get there at 6:00, leave at 11:00 and stay with stuff

gandalf3

@CharlesL Running it on test.txt appears to actually make it bigger..?

% cat test.txt | wc -c
169
% cat test.ltc | wc -c
524

% cat test_u.txt | wc -c
135

And then uncompressing makes the smallest version..?

CharlesL

@gandalf3 yeah. i'm gonna have to tweak that a little

David

11:02 PM

@TARDISMaker hmm, whatever. you made money, that is good.

CharlesL

right now the compressor is doing a minor compression, but it sticks the dictionary in the file

gandalf3

ahh

CharlesL

so the dictionary plus the original length of text actually makes it bigger

gandalf3

BTW do you know how to do essentially this:

s:gsub("%sth["..table.concat(vowels).."]", "d")

without replacing the vowel itself?

CharlesL

it'll eventually make it smaller with large files :P

gandalf3

11:06 PM

Right :P

CharlesL

@gandalf3 yeah, you'll have to use a regex group

sorry, internet died for a minute

gandalf3

ah

CharlesL

oh shoot

i don't know if lua can do that...

lua's regex is stupid

gandalf3

:/

CharlesL

i like everything about the language, but i still don't understand why they chose a non-standard implementation of regex

gandalf3

11:08 PM

hm wait

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A: what are the use of parentheses in this Lua pattern?

Anything inside parentheses is a capture group; any part of the input string matched by the part of the pattern in parentheses is captured and returned by match() and gmatch(). If there are no capture groups in the pattern, the entire string is returned. local x, y, z = ("123456"):match("(%d)%d...

CharlesL

O!

YAH!

gj! I didn't realize they allowed that!

gandalf3

11:21 PM

yay

dats alright den

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