Vincent Carignan

This is the last episode of this season and it is time to say goodbye to Karl IV, Ludwig the Bavarian, Henry VII, Albrecht of Habsburg, Adolf von Nassau and Rudolf of Habsburg. These have been some eventful 138 years.….. Link here: lnk.to/HotGPod

@nicocatellier If you’re into history, one of my current fav is @germanshistory

Soon going on a long drive to Hartford for NicheBIM. Anyone has podcast or audiobooks recommendations?

@nicocatellier Congrats man that’s awesome, with all the work you put behind the content it’s great to see people coming onboard. Keep it up 💯

In February, we launched the BIM Pure membership. This week, we've crossed 500 paid subscribers. You never know what will happen before a launch. Will people actually think it's a good idea and pay for it? It's a relief to see the vision validated. Thanks for the support!

S'il fallait retenir un seul extrait du passage du PDG d'Hydro-Québec à l'#AssNat pour l'étude des crédits, c'est celui-là. Michael Sabia explique qu'avec la multiplication des projets privés d'autoproduction d'électricité, il craint que ça nuise à la réalisation du Plan 2035 de la société d'État. Hydro-Québec aura besoin jusqu'à 20 % de tous les travailleurs de la construction du Québec pour construire des capacité de production de 8 à 9000 mégawatts et 5000 kilomètres de lignes de transport. Il dit qu'il y a une «nécessité de très bien coordonner ces projets», car ils pourraient concurrencer Hydro-Québec pour l'accès à la main-d'œuvre et aux équipements.

Why hasn't the Internet worked as a great public space where the best ideas win? Perhaps because it isn't how debates operate. Behind intellectual arguments, people aren't impartial thinkers; they advocate for their team. A🧵on how coalitional thinking shapes our discussions.

Want to make life a little better for you coworkers? Don’t send emails outside of work hours (or, if you do, communicate they are not urgent). Receivers way over-estimate how urgent out-of-work messages are compared to the actual goals of the email senders, causing stress.

Thanks 🙏🙏 Next seasons will be on the Teutonic Knights starting within the next few weeks. After that we resume the story of the HRE in 1250 = early Habsburgs, Charles IV, Sigismund, Jan Hus..etc. Then it is the Habsburg empire and the Reformation. before we go to 30Y War...

@nicocatellier @snowyweston @JacobWSmall yeah it's an interesting idea, pegging hours to tiers may not be optimal (your inspiration seems to suggest deliverables as a basis), but you probably are in a position to succesfully productize your services just based on reach, brand recongnition & content you put out

@snowyweston @JacobWSmall This is all quite hypothetical at the moment, and maybe it doesn't work for specific types of mandates. But I've seen the idea of "productizing" services work in other industries and I am intrigued by it.

I am considering moving BIM Pure's consulting services to a subscription model instead of fixed fee/hourly. 3 tiers: - Support - Work - Ultra-work Before a month begins, clients decide which tier they need and either keep it, switch, or pause for a month.

@nicocatellier Interesting! Curious to know how would edge cases would be managed, i.e. activate once and use a lot, then deactivate

1474-1531 was a time of immense change and upheaval for the Hanseatic League, and not just for them. The Habsburg empire is bedded into being, England’s war of the Roses is over, in the North the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth stretches all the way from Kyiev to Gdansk.🧵

There are more attoseconds in a second than there are seconds in the age of the universe.

A wise person once said that you will experience climate change through a series of increasingly wild videos, until you are the one taking the video.

Je travaille sur un article qui montre que les québécois appuient plus la redistribution du revenu et préfèrent un état plus interventionniste que les autres canadiens Une hypothèse: c’est parce qu’on est moins religieux, les croyants appuyant moins l’état @Patrickdery

@vasshaug 👋 I’d be happy to chat about our team!

Who are the best BIM-consultancy firms around today? The ones that you hire to run big and complex projects. There doesn't seem to be any lack in the market, but who are the good ones? #bim

@nicocatellier @_TheDanWarren ISO standards are not contractual documents tho 😅

@_TheDanWarren This seems.. quite straightforward and easy to understand? Better than ISO jargon

@_brianpotter Yeah, or the reported data is incomplete, and/or they were particularly lucky!

@VincentCarignan I agree occupational safety has gotten much better. But if you're claiming the Empire State Building was at a different spot on a speed-harm tradeoff, the number of deaths on that project seems relevant.

Not sure the harm take is correct here - 5 workers died during the construction of the Empire State Building, which is in line with death rates on later supertall buildings. 2 died on One World Trade, and 60(!) died on the original World Trade Center construction.

@nicocatellier Now for a deep dive on gaming vs pro GPUs I’d recommend this great piece: autodesk.com/autodesk-unive… The complete article is accessible at the end of the blog post. Even if it’s from 2017 it’s still super useful

@nicocatellier If I’m not mistaken the support you’ll get if anything goes south is purely on a compatibility dimension, ie if an issue with an Autodesk product is linked to a driver/the GPU itself.

One of my client is worried that if they don't use one of the "Revit certified" GPU, they won't get support from Autodesk. Are these certifications still up to date? Do they really matter for getting support? Using gaming cards would be simpler than getting a quadro.

@nicocatellier These tests do not mean other GPUs are not compatible, just that if the root cause of the problem comes from the GPU, the manufacturer won’t offer support.

@nicocatellier From what I know they are updated, the lists can be found here knowledge.autodesk.com/certified-grap…