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New comment by beardedwizard in "Coordination Headwind: How Organizations Are Like Slime Molds"

beardedwizard — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 16:44:08 +0000

It's been a long time (5 years?) since I encountered this last. Despite the idea making total sense to me, I am no clearer than I was then on how to actually do this in any org I have been a part of or managed. Where does this work? How did you do it? Does it work?

New comment by beardedwizard in "Stop Making TUIs"

beardedwizard — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 16:09:29 +0000

But TUIs make me feel smart, and my work feel important and esoteric.

New comment by beardedwizard in "Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?"

beardedwizard — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:23:23 +0000

Umm shouldn't that be "search the web and read the docs for pi4 to answer: ..."?

New comment by beardedwizard in "In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years"

beardedwizard — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 04:20:20 +0000

> And please, God, let me die with my wife like John Nash did in that NJ Turnpike taxi crash.

amen brother.

New comment by beardedwizard in "FIPS 140-3 is not a security guarantee, and auditors know it"

beardedwizard — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 04:11:23 +0000

+1, been all the way to fed ramp high and this is a huge part of the security theater that is fedramp.

The second best part is either getting really good at patching every single thing, or playing the POA&M game.

New comment by beardedwizard in "FIPS 140-3 is not a security guarantee, and auditors know it"

beardedwizard — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 04:08:06 +0000

I did some work at a large saas company where HSM as a big part of what we did. In the early days, we paid for full HSMs that we managed and eventually had to make a decision on whether or not we would used managed HSM and HSM-like services like KMS across various cloud providers.

We did an analysis across all the HSM hardware vendors and found, unsurprisingly in hindsight, that all of these hardware vendors had all the same awful security practices as every other enterprise hardware vendor, and each had vulnerabilities that leaked private key material.

The conclusion was that cloud providers fronting managed HSM had more to lose than the hardware vendors did, and would be more likely to patch and address these kinds of issues.

What surprised me was my own reaction, I thought for sure managing our own HSM hardware had to be a better guarantee over the key material, but like many things, it turned out to be unscalable security theater.

New comment by beardedwizard in "The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models"

beardedwizard — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 13:11:20 +0000

Can you imagine ransomware that targets these logs?

New comment by beardedwizard in "The case for MUDs in modern times (2018)"

beardedwizard — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 23:09:51 +0000

HTTP is a text based protocol, nobody is arguing websites are muds.

Let's skip the strange purity tests and engage in good faith discussion.

New comment by beardedwizard in "The case for MUDs in modern times (2018)"

beardedwizard — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:11:02 +0000

Simply untrue.

There have been hundreds of MUD clients and many of them were not purely text based at all. Many had images and map screens built in.

New comment by beardedwizard in "The case for MUDs in modern times (2018)"

beardedwizard — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:08:15 +0000

People start talking to llms all day, suddenly text based games are interesting again...

New comment by beardedwizard in "DSLs Enable Reliable Use of LLMs"

beardedwizard — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:08:05 +0000

So, formal verification then...

New comment by beardedwizard in "How to hide from killer drones"

beardedwizard — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 04:53:28 +0000

I dont know, I wish I did.

New comment by beardedwizard in "How to hide from killer drones"

beardedwizard — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 04:52:26 +0000

until you are on the wrong side of an absolutist regime I guess

New comment by beardedwizard in "How to hide from killer drones"

beardedwizard — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 21:51:26 +0000

Why do talented engineers keep going to work for these companies and building it?

New comment by beardedwizard in "What Emily Bender meant by "stochastic parrots""

beardedwizard — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:30:47 +0000

Is that prediction not based on matching previous patterns, whose frequencies are more or less encoded in the weights?

New comment by beardedwizard in "Emily Bender Sets the Record Straight on "Stochastic Parrots""

beardedwizard — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:29:53 +0000

Explain it to me

New comment by beardedwizard in "30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech"

beardedwizard — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 11:17:00 +0000

I don't think I need to quote your own post back to you where the word "vote" is not present. You are not here for a good faith discussion.

New comment by beardedwizard in "Claude Science"

beardedwizard — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:14:51 +0000

This 100000x over. Nothing is worse than trying to productionize code coming from academics like this.

New comment by beardedwizard in "30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech"

beardedwizard — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:19:20 +0000

That's not what you said. However, Italy is a country that did recover from fascism.

It seems like you are more interested in being a doomer than engaging in good faith discussion. I'll pass on the defeatist doom porn.

New comment by beardedwizard in "30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech"

beardedwizard — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 11:03:23 +0000

Can you name a single relevant historical example for this claim?