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This is some cowboy engineering and i love it. totally shooting from the hip, but still finishing up with a nice long-form post. like other comments mentioned this is super impractical but that's not the point. building a robot finger to push a button at the push of a button is a hilarious saturday afternoon project

good job bert!

Why are so many people interested in markdown for notes? I've never used it before but HN seems really interested in note taking and in using markdown for note formatting. What does it offer that OneNote or Word doesnt?

The ASCII art that these folks did to set up their chapter headings was beautiful. I remember seeing them making huge block lettering, scenery, and even characters drawn in ASCII art just to give an intro to like a GameBoy game walkthrough. The love and effort poured into these showed

> How does that follow? What right do you have to demand that things be manufactured in a particular way?

They have every right to demand something be manufactured a specific way. The manufacturer doesn’t have to listen but the consumer has the right to demand. Manufacturing is not some black box process that happens “over there” and you get whatever rolls out of it. Consumers have every right to give feedback to manufacturers and request for the production of products that better suit their needs, and if the manufacturer fails to do that the consumer can go somewhere else. The whole point of this is preference

Email sent. Thanks! Sounds interesting

>The best books are bolded, the great ones are underlined, and my absolute favorites are in red.

What does that even mean? What's the cutoff for best and great and favorite?

Does anyone else find the language over the top? Like we've watered down our superlatives.

Maybe I'm being super picky, but why make a numbered list of the best things across a spectrum of their greatness and not use the numbers?

For us it's less about onboarding to the team and more of what tech do we need to develop for this product to meet client spec. I'm using it more as an organizational tool to structure which tasks need to be done sequentially (i.e. the API needs to be complete before we can test it with the software) and the tasks that can be done concurrently (i.e. the hardware can be developed and tested the same time as the software, up to a point).

I think you could use a gantt chart to accomplish the same thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gantt_chart

And your comment about the dependencies is still accurate for my team since we have to be efficient about doing the concurrent parts together to make sure we get this product to our client on time.

It's been useful for me to visualize all the moving parts of my project and see options that I have in a way that is familiar to me.

Sure, I'll do my best.

My team is designing a new product for our company. We know what we want the end result to be, but we have several iterations to make on our current product to get there, and each iteration can branch through several paths to satisfy our requirements.

So there's a hardware tree which lists the options we have to upgrade the hardware, a software tree that shows the scope of options we have to improve the software, etc.

The idea is to show the different tasks that need to be done; and which can be done concurrently and which need to be done sequentially to get to our goal.

I showed my team the Factorio tech tree to give them an idea, but I didn't realize people used them professionally.

How often are tech trees used in software development/ project management?

I’m leading a hardware development project and I made a tech tree for my team- but I had only ever seen them in video games. Would love some professional examples

Thank you for helping out and making that so easy to do. Much appreciated

The high-fidelity replication is much easier for things like industrial control systems (ICS)because all that needs to be replicated is the operator interfaces. Those interfaces are usually intentionally bland and typically dated - meaning really simple, standardized graphical assets

I can imagine a complete mine recreation would be a huge development effort - especially with how huge they get. Is that something that like a camera drone could scan? i guess it could get the topology figured out with some special software, but could it get the signs and landmarks too? Can drones fly effectively in a mine?

There's still a huge pursuit around this in most of manufacturing. Operational engineering groups are pushing for high fidelity digital twins to test out process control code before it hits the physical plant. The merge between simulation games and simulations gets even more blurred now that some software companies are replicating the entire plant in a 3d "game engine" and using VR goggles for immersion for operator training

Is the presentation this was delivered to recorded? I'd watch whatever lecture this was from.

I haven't seen anything in the LibreOffice suite but I'd like to see one too. Something like Joplin is the closest I've seen. But I'm on the hunt for something similar for my personal files

This looks great. Do you have a blog or something where you post updates?

I'm going to write my next adventure segment here and see if it flows better than googledocs. This feels like an online OneNote tool but it's free and not owned by MSFT so big plus.

It looks great and so far has been super intuitive to add/edit campaign parts. Job well done!

That's the scary thing. He left it on social media and they went out and found it and used it against him. I 1000% agree with how you feel about it but this is a big issue when people go looking for someone's faults in their personal lives or past to try and publicly ruin someone's reputation.

But for real talk - I prefer tabs. They feel cleaner and you don't have to count. It's just one button and you're done. Who want's to push spacebar that many times?