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The risk in digital assistants is that the companies who provide them have a profit motivation. If you ask google assistant to recommend a popular restaurant or a good PC, you can never be sure that advertising dollars don't influence the answer. And gods forbid you ask it for the politics news, because the response will be influenced in all sorts of conscious and unconscious ways.
A secondary risk is that digital assistants attempt to tailor their answer to what they perceive as your needs, based on previous queries. If you ask for Italian restaurants two or three times, it may stop offering you Thai, because the selection algorithm isn't very smart. Sometimes that's great, but sometimes you may want to change your pattern and go out for Thai. Now think what happens when you read just a few articles from FOX News. Now the digital assistant thinks you're a conservative.
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I have Siri on my Apple devices. I am not too worried about Apple having information about me because I don't think my information will be shared; they "don't play well with others". I think Amazon would use all information to try to sell me more crap. I wouldn't have Google because world domination is only "the beginning" for them!
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Absurd map change celebrates bubbly! (9)
(Sorry it's early - I have to go out around 13:00)
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Go on then. Champagne.
This space for rent
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You are up tomorrow - themed at your discretion (there should be a fair number of ways you could take it).
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: there should be a fair number of ways you could take it
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You're early ?
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Yeah - gotta take Herself to hydrotherapy later, and didn't want the CCC ending just after I left.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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OriginalGriff wrote: hydrotherapy
Isn't that a form of torture? 
and I just realised I have replied to you 3 times in quick succession... but that's your fault for saying too many interesting things
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We've been together a long time, what did you expect? 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Irish man wins it for England. Oh wait, he won't be Irish now.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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The luck of the Irish !
I see your nationality has also changed, hope that wasn't a mistake either 
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I always thought of it as country where you live since it is on the address page.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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That seems logical, live long and prosper my friend
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lw@zi wrote: Irish man wins it for England.
Born in New Zealand's Christchurch.
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The captain is from Ireland
Ben Stokes is from New Zealand but moved to England at an early age, his father was a Rugby League player who moved to the UK to coach Working Town RLFC
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Interesting fact of the day: Ted Dexter was the only Italian ever to represent England at cricket.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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It was an awesome game.
I did assume that England had lost at the end of 50 overs but it turns out I was living on out-of-date (and probably better) rules so the extra over came as a huge surprise.
Hats off to the Kiwis - I really like their current side and I'd have been firmly rooting for them had they been playing anyone else.
To use the old cliche: regardless of the result, cricket was the winner.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Yeah well said!.
You know I made this post[^] with a heaviness in the heart, an unsettling feeling. The hangover from the loss was still lasting.
Not just me, all the cricket fans here in India was feeling bad about the loss in semi-finals.
But the way Finals happened yesterday, washed off this heavy feeling.
It's not about England winning. But it's just about how cricket happened. It's unbelievable.
Some people even feel they are lucky to have witnessed this event. haha 
Truly dramatic.
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Well, yes, I had India as the favourites for the tournament. In all my cricketing life (we're talking Sunil Gavaskar onwards) I've never seen an Indian side that couldn't bat sublimely, but I've seen a fair few that couldn't bowl too well. With Bumrah and Shami in the mix, this is clearly a side that can.
Was it a tournament too far for Dhoni at 38? Much as you can only love the man, he's not the match-winner that he used to be and I find myself wondering if he was picked more out of sentimentality than necessity.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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PeejayAdams wrote: all my cricketing life (we're talking Sunil Gavaskar onwards)
Meeting a non-Indian Cricketer in CP is like finding life on Mars. Quite happy you are there. lol
PeejayAdams wrote: Was it a tournament too far for Dhoni at 38? Much as you can only love the man, he's not the match-winner that he used to be and I find myself wondering if he was picked more out of sentimentality than necessity.
This is quite true. This reduced the stature of Dhoni a bit. I feel sad for him.
I have slightly a bit more regards for the likes of Steve Waugh.
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It's a hard one for the selectors, there are players that it's so hard to let go of - I suspect that the South Africans are going to go the same way with Dale Steyn over the next couple of years but at some point you have to stop relying on "Old Faithful" and look to the youngsters.
It's made even harder by guys like Graham Gooch who just got better and better with age (he was probably about the same age as Dhoni is now when he hit that triple century at Lords and went on for a few golden years after that).
Some players know when to go. Others, I suppose, just can't see a life outside of the game and want to stay forever so won't admit to any persistent niggles or deterioration in the eye-sight. And I very much get that. If you've got the best job in the world, why would you want to stop doing it?
And yes, what is it about coders and sport? I've never really understood how so few engage with it!
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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PeejayAdams wrote: It's a hard one for the selectors, there are players that it's so hard to let go of - I suspect that the South Africans are going to go the same way with Dale Steyn over the next couple of years but at some point you have to stop relying on "Old Faithful" and look to the youngsters.
It's made even harder by guys like Graham Gooch who just got better and better with age (he was probably about the same age as Dhoni is now when he hit that triple century at Lords and went on for a few golden years after that).
Some players know when to go. Others, I suppose, just can't see a life outside of the game and want to stay forever so won't admit to any persistent niggles or deterioration in the eye-sight. And I very much get that. If you've got the best job in the world, why would you want to stop doing it?
It's a delight to read 
PeejayAdams wrote: And yes, what is it about coders and sport? I've never really understood how so few engage with it!
Maybe it needs multi-core brain? 
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So I was editing an article for submission and I found out the Code Project has a convention I wasn't familiar with.
Ctrl-Z here is the "destroy hours of work" feature, not the "undo" feature.
What cards the site developers are. ha ha!
I'm laughing over here. In between sobs, I swear.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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