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New comment by thorbutt in "How does IKEA come up with names for its products?"

thorbutt — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 02:34:44 +0000

I believe you, but that site reeks of LLM generated SEO junk

New comment by thorbutt in "Kaiser nurses say AI, surveillance are making their jobs and patient care worse"

thorbutt — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 02:53:34 +0000

See: Samsung selling "AI" vacuum cleaners and washing machines

New comment by thorbutt in "CarPlay Is Additive"

thorbutt — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 04:10:06 +0000

Most OEM infotainment sucks, and it's taken a while for things to improve. I'd be willing to say your older car has a resistive touchscreen and physically couldn't support multitouch

CarPlay is definitely an improvement if you're comparing it to something like Ford Sync for example

New comment by thorbutt in "CarPlay Is Additive"

thorbutt — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 03:57:03 +0000

This wouldn't be a solution to the argument in the article: Rivian and Tesla don't want to support phones projecting to infotainment

As it is, CarPlay is implemented as a h264 video stream which receives touch, microphone, and metadata from the vehicle, the protocol is fine albeit proprietary

New comment by thorbutt in "Leaked financial docs show OpenAI is losing billions of dollars a year"

thorbutt — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:39:00 +0000

The AI providers will experiment on their users, and keep going until they lose users

It'll be like Facebook; they're not losing money but it's awful to use