BitsAndObjects

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by BitsAndObjects 5mo ago
This post's title is wildly misleading - mods should correct it. While the GitHub project is called "claude brain", it is not published by Anthropic and the repo is a thin wrapper around a service called "Memvid". S
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by BitsAndObjects 5mo ago
Oh also note that this isn't a free OR open-source tool. It's a wrapper round a ludicrously priced service: https://memvid.com/pricing Which is why the repo says "Written in Rust" but contains only a thi
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by BitsAndObjects 5mo ago
Seems like vibe coded garbage, as well as being irrelevant given the latest Claude Code features, which includes a memory file.
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by BitsAndObjects 5mo ago
I self-host OpenProject - free and a little better than Jira.
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by BitsAndObjects 5mo ago
This is part of the reason deployments to production cloud environments should: 1. Only be allowed via CI/CD 2. All infra should be defined as code 3. Any deployment to production should be a delayed process that also has a human-appro
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by BitsAndObjects 5mo ago
Doesn't require Jira but yes, specification-first is the way to get better (albeit still not reliably good) results out of AI tools. Some people may call this "design-first" or "architecture-first". The point is rea
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by BitsAndObjects 5mo ago
What complete nonsense. Professional bodies don't mandate fads. Get a grip.
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by BitsAndObjects 5mo ago
Sadly, probably true.
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by BitsAndObjects 5mo ago
Equating gatekeeping of professional bodies with grifting suggests you have no experience of why we have professional bodies in medicine or accountancy or civil engineering (to give just a few examples).
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by BitsAndObjects 5mo ago
Professional bodies are a necessary form of gatekeeping for practicing the craft of software engineering professionally. You are then bringing a whole host of other issues that are related in nature but not in practice: * Locking down of An
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by BitsAndObjects 5mo ago
> We should blame them for misleading marketing.
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by BitsAndObjects 5mo ago
Particularly ironic for a doctor to have done this, given all the complaints about patients using Google (even pre-AI)!
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by BitsAndObjects 5mo ago
Totally agree - not just medical software either. See replies to my other comment threads. Software engineers really don’t like the idea that they might have to show they can perform at a certain standard to be able to work as a software en
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by BitsAndObjects 5mo ago
One of the key functions of a professional body is to ensure all members are aware of existing and new laws, standards and codes of practice. And to ensure different grades of engineer are aware of different levels of the standards. And tha
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by BitsAndObjects 5mo ago
There’s a reason why many professions have professional bodies and consolidated standards - from medicine to accountancy, actuarial work, civil engineering, aerospace, electronic and electrical engineering, law, surveying, and so many more.
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by BitsAndObjects 5mo ago
We don’t blame companies selling 3D Design software or 3D printers or mortar and cement, or graph paper and pencils. When people abuse those tools and build huts or houses or bridges that fall down, we usually blame the user for not having
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by BitsAndObjects 5mo ago
Software engineering is looking more and more like it needs a professional body in each country, and accreditation and standards. Ie it needs to grow up and become like every other strand of engineering. Gone should be the days of “I taught
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by BitsAndObjects 5mo ago
Software != Linux Mainline. Software exists from the vendor, but it’s not open source and/or not part of Linux mainline. Hence the effort to develop an open source (and mainlined) alternative. Whether this is a good use of effort and&#
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by BitsAndObjects 5mo ago
Yep, you responded exactly as expected. Well done. Enjoy your bubble.
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by BitsAndObjects 5mo ago
You need to travel more.
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by BitsAndObjects 5mo ago
So why do they need to use helicopters and a risky airlift to return the astronauts to the main vessel? Why not just use the speedboats to take them back? Seems really odd and I can’t find any reasonable explanation.
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by BitsAndObjects 5mo ago
Notwithstanding that this mission critically relied upon Canada, UK, EU, Japan, Taiwan, and contributions from many other countries.
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by BitsAndObjects 5mo ago
Random bit flips due to radiation are infrequent - the stat is something like one but flip per megabyte per 40,000 data centre RAM modules per year - ie extremely uncommon, but common enough to matter at scale. Space is a harsher environmen
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by BitsAndObjects 5mo ago
They’re not mission-critical equipment. If they fail, nobody dies. They’re not radiation hardened, so given enough time, they’d be expected to fail. Rebooting them might clear the issue or it might not (soft vs hard faults). Also impossible
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by BitsAndObjects 5mo ago
Typo: “both” ~ “not”
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by BitsAndObjects 5mo ago
Not a direct answer but probably as good information as you can get: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c... Basically, yes, radiation does cause bit flips, more often than you might expect (but
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by BitsAndObjects 5mo ago
Same here - almost identical for me.
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by BitsAndObjects 5mo ago
This is in response to the comments in the article about TEEs and similar - such as TPMs - not catching up fast enough. Also companies like PQShield. The hardware (IP) exists to solve this in time, and is being integrated into products grad
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by BitsAndObjects 5mo ago
The OP should take a look at Secqai - potentially serverclass motherboard management processors and beyond which will implement PQ security and hardware enforced memory safety (from what I recall): https://www.secqai.com/
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by BitsAndObjects 5mo ago
This but Gemini and Email - literally marketed as "write bullet points and Gemini will draft your email", followed by "received a long email? Let Gemini summarise it for you." The world's most effective _de_compress

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