u/MrPinkle

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Have you encountered any small companies using Obsidian + Bases plugin + Git version control? And maybe a few simple python scripts to flag problems such as missing traceability links?

We're considering doing this for our PLM/QMS needs.

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In 1996 I had a little sheep that wandered around my Windows desktop and did various cute things like jump between windows, sleep, or pretend to eat my icons.

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$249? Who uses dollars? The only meaningful currency in 2027 is Claude tokens.

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Do embedded C++ developers ever avoid the heap entirely? How do they do that? Do they avoid using containers such as std::vector or std::unordered_map? Or do they create custom allocators that only use the stack?

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They're implying the LLMs will be trained on your book.

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What does ichh mean?

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G B C Cm

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His point was that other companies such as Altium have ended perpetual licenses and therefore it's not hard to imagine that SolidWorks/Dassault might do the same thing.

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Why would you ditch the PhD and look for a D.Eng instead?

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I have a lot of experience with linear systems. What are the nonlinear control concepts?

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Grist and Airtable provide a relational database which maintains relationships between tables. In Excel, you have to maintain the relationships manually which is tedious and error prone.

Grist is open source, can be self-hosted on your own server, and stores all data in a popular open source database (SQLite). So you can do anything you want with your own data. This helps avoid vendor lock-in, restrictions, walled gardens, and upgrade treadmills that you might get with locked-down software like Airtable.

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Grist

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My company hires people all the time where their compensation is a combination of salary and learning opportunities. This can be a great deal for us because we don't have to pay as much, we benefit from their existing experience, and they are self-motivated to learn and apply best practices in the areas that are new to them.

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What is deeptech? Who is Jared?

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You're right to push back...

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You misspelled Vim

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What are IAC tools?

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What is KYC?

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Which hardware became unnoticeably better before subtracting AI???

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What was the Zephyr train wreck?

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And vendor lock in. You can't run a company if everything is at the mercy of outside vendors.

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Simple Arcadia for Beginners: Using Capella by Pascal Roques and David J Hetherington.

They walk you through click-by-click on how to use the software. If you build the examples as you read the book and if you click around a little extra to explore, then it provides an easy way to gain experience and comfort with the software.

However, the book is more than just a random collection of examples. The examples are arranged to teach the Arcadia method in a clear and efficient fashion. The book presents well-timed theoretical comments throughout the examples which helps teach abstract Arcadia concepts and keeps the book interesting.

My only complaint with this and many similar books is that the examples are so simple and silly that they don't demonstrate how to use the tool on real-world problems. The book does this intentionally so you can focus on the Arcadia concepts without needing to also learn complex system examples. Nonetheless, I wish there were more books or examples to demonstrate good MBSE tool practices on real-world projects.

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What else would it take to get a C++ job?

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Maybe the cycle will repeat and one day we'll gush about fitting an entire AI data center into a personal desktop appliance.