Atlas, a hopefully better engineering IDE

Looks like fun. I like it. Right now my tool of choice for calculation is Jupyter/Python, and it would be interesting to try both alongside one another on a moderately difficult problem.

Re: Atlas, a hopefully better engineering IDE

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Post by javajosh » Tue, May 11, 2021, 1:53 AM UTC

You lost me at "driving progress in the world of atoms."

But seriously, it looks lovely.

Re: Atlas, a hopefully better engineering IDE

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Post by caymanjim » Tue, May 11, 2021, 2:01 AM UTC

This looks neat. Writing tip for the person speaking (or captioning): starting a sentence with "so" makes you come off like...something I don't have the word for, but it's bad. Don't do it. Condescending? Demeaning? It's like you don't think your audience is capable of following. I had to stop watching after four sentences in a row started that way.

Re: Atlas, a hopefully better engineering IDE

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Post by gravypod » Tue, May 11, 2021, 2:04 AM UTC

I've done a lot of napkin math in NaSC [0]. Unfortunately it was buggy and often crashed so I had to stop using it. I'd love for something like this that could also be checked into repo and used to "compile" into constants that can be used in code. For example: plan the resources required to run for `demand(requests)` and load that into code and run that to scale up/down replicas or something.

[0] - https://appcenter.elementary.io/com.github.parnold-x.nasc/

Re: Atlas, a hopefully better engineering IDE

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, May 11, 2021, 2:05 AM UTC

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Re: Atlas, a hopefully better engineering IDE

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Post by rmujica » Tue, May 11, 2021, 2:06 AM UTC

It seems kind of MathCAD

Re: Atlas, a hopefully better engineering IDE

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Post by andrewzah » Tue, May 11, 2021, 2:16 AM UTC

caymanjim wrote: post #6

This looks neat. Writing tip for the person speaking (or captioning): starting a sentence with "so" makes you come off like...something I don't have the word for, but it's bad. Don't do it. Condescending? Demeaning? It's like you don't think your audience is capable of following. I had to stop watching after four sentences in a row started that way.

Or we could not police people's language. "So" is a way to start sentences; like anything else, it can be overused. Just like "like", etc.

There's a good podcast episode from John Mcwhorter on this "So" phenomenon. [0] TL;DL It has some interesting applications (including functioning as a discourse marker), and isn't going away anytime soon.

[0]: https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/10/john-mcwhorter-on-s...