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New comment by milch in "4 things to know about the new sunscreen ingredient the FDA approved"

milch — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 15:15:20 +0000

The limbs you can deal with, at least. I've done century rides in 100°F+ weather wearing UPF 50 sleeves the whole way... it's actually quite nice because you dip them in water, and they end up staying saturated for a long time. Together with the airflow from the ride it keeps you cool as well as protecting from the sun

New comment by milch in "Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models"

milch — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 07:07:11 +0000

IIRC Anthropic models haven't all been available on day 1, so it does feel like a deliberate choice, especially since they are partners/part-owners like you say. No one would have bat an eye about some corporate PR thing "blah blah mythos is too powerful and too intelligent and so we've decided to focus our capacity on Opus 4.6/4.7/4.8 for now until we have the proper safeguards in place blah blah"

New comment by milch in "Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models"

milch — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 01:45:57 +0000

Why would they have launched Fable on Bedrock if they knew they were going to be shutting it down a day later?

New comment by milch in "Car headlights don't have to be this blinding"

milch — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:19:34 +0000

Instead NHTSA still allows automatic high beams, which blast you instead in the US... Or just regular old drivers that don't realize/care. Even as a pedestrian, I constantly see people driving through my neighborhood with high beams on... and these are side streets with a 20mph/30kph speed limit. Anecdotally at least people in Europe are a lot better about only turning high beams on outside of city limits

New comment by milch in "Brexit Ten Years On: The Economy"

milch — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:09:49 +0000

Look at the very first point on the archived vote leave page: https://web.archive.org/web/20160620214900/http://www.votele...

Sure, you could argue that they didn't mean it would be positive for the economy to save that money, but "we will save 350M/week" is what's on the buses and their website. Even if we assume the average voter clicks through here and reads everything point by point, or goes onto the website in the first place rather than by the headline, it is at the very least heavily implied... Otherwise what is the argument?

New comment by milch in "Netlify CTO Dana Lawson: Writing code is no longer the job"

milch — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 07:11:01 +0000

Weirdly I find myself writing more code lately, not less. A lot of it is AI assisted but a lot of it also isn't. I find that where previously the management chain wanted things meticulously planned out, and we had to have 17 meetings with different stakeholders and principal engineers to approve the system design.

New comment by milch in "Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model"

milch — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 05:44:19 +0000

What hardware do you need to run MiniMax M2.7 230B locally?

New comment by milch in "The Public Should Own Half of the Big A.I. Companies"

milch — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 04:31:04 +0000

In fact when my company awards me stock the government takes half anyway!

New comment by milch in "What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications"

milch — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:06:32 +0000

The difference is that taxis would either give you a call that they were here or they'd just wait for. They don't care either way if you show up or not because the meter is running. The Uber is gone if you don't show up in 5 minutes. That is if you are lucky and the driver didn't mark themselves as "here" when they were 2 blocks away, which seems to be the norm here now.

New comment by milch in "From Rust to Ruby"

milch — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:12:07 +0000

Exactly. Sure, I can go read a book and learn about Rails. If I wanted to be a Rails specialist I probably would, but I don't want to be a Rails specialist. And like you said, other languages can do this too, but I haven't really found it to be too much of an issue. I remember one time where I had to break out whatever the rustc flag is that just produces the code with expanded macros, but that's it.

New comment by milch in "Why the smart home bubble popped"

milch — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:01:25 +0000

SwitchBot is one of those major manufacturers: https://www.reddit.com/r/TrySwitchBot/comments/1j8ogt8/matte...

New comment by milch in "From Rust to Ruby"

milch — Wed, 27 May 2026 03:36:50 +0000

I don't think I've ever been unhappier than working on a Rails project. See a bug on the site - something is rendering incorrectly. grep to find the view. Great, there's a method that is being called to render the buggy section. Grep for the method name - 0 hits. Amazing, it's something that is synthesized somewhere and I have no idea where. Guess I'll stop what I'm doing and read docs for an hour. If you do nothing but use Rails all day, sure, but the whole convention over configuration thing is such a huge anti pattern to me.

New comment by milch in "Why the smart home bubble popped"

milch — Wed, 27 May 2026 03:17:25 +0000

> The control interface is local, not cloud-based

Unfortunately you see quite a few manufacturers implement Matter in a way where they require a proprietary hub, and the proprietary hub requires a constant internet connection to work...

New comment by milch in "Amazon Web Services – Four Years and Out"

milch — Sun, 24 May 2026 14:49:50 +0000

I've worked at Amazon since 2018 and they've always talked about the software engineers being fungible during my tenure there. Technically everyone is supposed to be able to do everything, but in practice it's a huge headache if you want to hire for a more specialized role. They started creating some, like Frontend Engineer and Embedded Systems Engineer, but in practice these are still extremely broad

New comment by milch in "JWT is a scam and your app doesn't need it"

milch — Sat, 23 May 2026 21:23:15 +0000

Apple App Store Connect has this issue for example. If you remove or downgrade someone from the store they retain access for however long... and they keep the ability to do destructive actions like remove or change the permissions of other users, at least they used to until a year or so ago when I last checked. They closed my security report as "by design" btw.

New comment by milch in "JWT is a scam and your app doesn't need it"

milch — Sat, 23 May 2026 20:20:43 +0000

To be fair here if you look at their "supporting evidence" most of it is pointing at markdown formatting. Some of the other things it points to are also just common in human writing, though the overuse leans more towards coming from an LLM, e.g. two instances of groups of three back to back with inconsistent use of the Oxford comma:

> If you're building a web app, a mobile app, or a first-party API: JWT is the wrong default and you should stop reaching for it. A row in Postgres with a bearer token in front of it is faster, simpler and strictly more secure.

New comment by milch in "560-610 minutes of exercise a week needed for substantial heart benefits"

milch — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:39:03 +0000

I skimmed the study rather than the article about it and I don't see them define it at all. They just had a machine learning model take accelerometer data and classified it into "sleep, sedentary behaviour, light physical activity and MVPA". Whether any form of walking counts as light or moderate in this classification is really anyone's guess

New comment by milch in "Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier"

milch — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:19:03 +0000

I played around with local LLMs on my M4 Max 64GB this weekend and this is exactly what I found. I put Opus 4.7 "head to head" on the same task as Qwen 3.6 and a few other local models. The 35B did not perform well IME - it needed a lot of handholding and even then the final result did not work until a few more tweaks, while Claude one shot the task. The 27B was much better and also one shot the task, but took about ~55min as opposed to about ~15min for Claude. The 27B is probably something that I could happily run for many use cases if I had some faster hardware... the main problem there seems to be that at larger context sizes, prompt decoding can take several minutes.

New comment by milch in "California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy"

milch — Tue, 05 May 2026 19:53:52 +0000

IME there is a large difference in quality in what is available at the super market. Sure I can do a once a year road trip to Monterey. The average organic heirloom tomato at Whole Foods or Trader Joe's is worse than the average organic heirloom tomato at Spar

New comment by milch in "Warp is now open-source"

milch — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:07:11 +0000

libghostty makes it pretty easy to do. I spent about two weeks setting something up until it was advanced enough to daily drive. I wanted to have a modal workflow similar to vim or tmux copy mode, but without having the overhead of using tmux... that's probably a lot more complicated than "I want Ghostty but with $X tweak". You can poke around in the repo to get a feel for what's involved if you want: https://github.com/milch/mistty