This "Atlas Engineering" is an unfortunate name conflict with the developers of the Nyxt browser: https://atlas.engineer
I initially thought Nyxt devs were building this when I saw the name/domain.
Atlas, a hopefully better engineering IDE
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Re: Atlas, a hopefully better engineering IDE
#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, I think that starting a sentence with “So” is pretty natural and common. Indeed: > So it’s often worth at least contemplating such feedback, if you care about being taken seriously. (Maybe you were intending to joke here, but it still came off as “pretty natural.”)
My use of the word “so” there occurred naturally and I deliberately left it there. However, it’s a different sense of the word “so”: it’s concretely meaning therefore , rather than just being a meaningless filler.
> My use of the word “so” there occurred naturally
What was unnatural about the original use? English isn't exactly standardized, there are plenty of dialects in which "so" is a common way to start a sentence. It might not be part of what you perceive as the prestige[1] dialect, but it's still natural.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prestige_(sociolinguistics)
Re: Atlas, a hopefully better engineering IDE
#103If it's not OSS it is unlikely to succeed.
That's not true, in my experience. This tool reminds me of MathCAD, which is both moderately popular and proprietary. The most popular numerical computing environment for engineering is MATLAB, which is proprietary.
Note that Mathcad and MATLAB have existed for more than 30 years. Legacy plays an important role to their popularity.
Re: Atlas, a hopefully better engineering IDE
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#106> Write equations; not code This is a little odd to me - I generally prefer to write my math in code if its going to be executed. I find my preferences to be pen and paper (or whiteboard)> latex, so perhaps I am not the target demographic here.
We must be evil twins in opposite universes. I've always wanted to be able to code the equations the way they look on paper. I actually am quite annoyed that most languages won't let you use Greek characters as variables. To me, it just makes it easier to spot errors.
> I actually am quite annoyed that most languages won't
> let you use Greek characters as variables.
$ python3
>>> φ = 2
>>> σ = 3
>>> φ + σ
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#107Tracking units is a thing that I rarely have a use for (as a non-engineer), but when I do, I’m totally mystified by how bad almost every language is at it. F# is the only actual programming language I found that even tries. It does a pretty decent job, but even it has some disappointing holes (e.g. not being able to understand g and kg as scaled versions of the same dimension). I guess the overlap between physicists/…
I guess the overlap between physicists/engineers and type system/PLT people isn’t large enough. C++ has supported units, as a library, since the early 90s. The Barton Nackman book had the initial implementation [1] and it was picked up years later by Scott Meyers [2]. [1] https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/scientific-and-engineering-c-a... [2] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28698558/c-dimensional-a...
Yes, and boost.units, and to a limited extent, std::chrono.
Re: Atlas, a hopefully better engineering IDE
#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
My use of the word “so” there occurred naturally and I deliberately left it there. However, it’s a different sense of the word “so”: it’s concretely meaning therefore , rather than just being a meaningless filler.
> My use of the word “so” there occurred naturally What was unnatural about the original use? English isn't exactly standardized, there are plenty of dialects in which "so" is a common way to start a sentence. It might not be part of what you perceive as the prestige[1] dialect, but it's still natural. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prestige_(sociolinguistics)
Nothing. jchw was just querying whether I’d put it in deliberately. I didn’t; it was the wording that flowed out of my fingers (and then I decided to keep it).
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#109Tracking units is a thing that I rarely have a use for (as a non-engineer), but when I do, I’m totally mystified by how bad almost every language is at it. F# is the only actual programming language I found that even tries. It does a pretty decent job, but even it has some disappointing holes (e.g. not being able to understand g and kg as scaled versions of the same dimension). I guess the overlap between physicists/…
I never had one, but didn't some of the later HP calculators do this? ( the 48? )