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A child named Alexa had to change their name because of the bullying. https://news.yahoo.com/parents-forced-change-name-6-18055441...
They didn't have to. Never ever cave to bully demands. That only teaches them they have power.
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Written like that Google suddenly looks like geniuses.
At least in the naming, sure. Everything else, not so much. I had to switch my whole house over to Echos because you can't change the wake word on Google Home. Every time I said, say, "Hey Google, turn the bedroom lamp off", the Home in the bedroom would say ok and turn the lamp off, both phones in the room would activate and complain that they didn't have a device named lamp listed, and every other Home in the house…
Contact forms for US Senators and Representatives often have surprising issues like this. Reserved words in SQL sometimes get blocked as well as things like too many singles quotes or an odd number of single quotes. I've seen the name "Walter" blocked on many forms over the years. The worst part is that the sender just gets sent to a security or generic page with no idea why, often losing the message they created.
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A fun code challenge! I started with https://github.com/Alexir/CMUdict/blob/master/cmudict-0.7b as a list of words with pronunciation. It has: PIZZA P IY1 T S AH0 Looks like I can search for " T S " to find the "ts sound that's not at the end" % grep " T S " cmudict-0.7b | wc -l 991 Some of the non-proper nouns include ACCOUNTANCY, ANTSY, and ARTSY. I'll assume this is too close to the end to count, so require two so…
"boatswain" should be pronounced "bosun".
https://www.etymonline.com/word/boatswain even comments:
> Phonetic spelling bo'sun/bosun is attested from 1840. Fowler [1926] writes, "The nautical pronunciation (bō'sn) has become so general that to avoid it is more affected than to use it."
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Written like that Google suddenly looks like geniuses.
At least in the naming, sure. Everything else, not so much. I had to switch my whole house over to Echos because you can't change the wake word on Google Home. Every time I said, say, "Hey Google, turn the bedroom lamp off", the Home in the bedroom would say ok and turn the lamp off, both phones in the room would activate and complain that they didn't have a device named lamp listed, and every other Home in the house…
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Apple is reportedly planning to remove "hey" from their wake word
I hope not, my daughters name just happens to have syllables similar but not the same as “siri” in her name and calling her name sets it off ALL THE TIME.
The key point here that was hard to find is that they and others had a username containing Clyde set already, and now can't update anything else about their profile because their username has come to be considered invalid. That's pretty poor judgement to not even communicate this to affected users
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Strong disagree. The whole "Karen" meme reeks of old-fashioned misogyny wrapped up in 2020s language. "A woman, complaining? How dare she!". I recognise the meme is about entitled women being rude, but that behaviour is hardly isolated to women.
Complaining doesn’t make a Karen. Entitlement does.
I worry these memes encourage timid people not to even ask for what they are legitimately entitled to, for fear of ending up on some Reddit channel.