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Why is an internal system in the same namespace as users? I wonder whether there are constraints that made it difficult to implement this functionality in another way, or this is just a bad design decision.
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Neither was AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon when they named their mobile wallet solution ISIS shortly before the caliphate was formed. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softcard
I know someone whose major in college was abbreviated as Isys (information systems). Not anymore.
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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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Well, the verbification of the word google introduces its own difficulties there. The ideal would be for the voice assistant to have some completely unique word, ideally with sound combinations that are very rare in your native language. And if for some reason, that still doesn't work for you, have a way to change it. Or maybe just not have a default, and require users to pick their own keyword.
> Computer! Earl Grey. Hot. I can't think of many words that rhyme with computer so would get picked up.
This is a good case for why system bots/messages/etc. shouldn't be given regular names (and perhaps distinguished through other means too); if the error was instead "Username cannot contain 'discord'", it'd be more obvious.
Amazon: Alexa Microsoft: Cortana Apple: Siri Discord: Clyde Google: Google Disclosure, I work at Google.
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This of course rests on the assumption that there is such a thing as a 'regular name'. I'm obliged to link you to 'falsehoods programmers believe about names' now. I'm not happy about it, but those are the rules. https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
That's why I name my bots "A" and just ban any username with "a" in it. If you can't get it 100% right, fuck it, do whatever you want.
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I feel bad for all the Alexas and the few Siris out there that have had their names hijacked my a couple of the biggest companies on the planet.
Slightly different, but my friend's daughter Isis hasn't been too happy about what's happened since she was born.
This happens because Discord has a system bot also named Clyde that mostly tells users when their messages fail to send (among other system messages).
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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…
You can't change the wake word because a separate, dedicated chip is listening for it and is not connected to the rest of the device except to wake up the main processor.
Dedicated wakeup chips can be designed to have a different matrix shoved in for the word they're detecting. Google presumably did not do this, but they could have.