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A Pixies song is accidentally turning off Google alarms
- sfortis 3y agoGood to know because everything else is turning them on.
- jsnell 3y agoDupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35826468 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35826468 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35778337 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35778337
- yellow_lead 3y agoThe "STOP" at the beginning turns it off [1]. from previous thread: [1] https://streamable.com/qdhin3 https://streamable.com/qdhin3
- cmrdporcupine 3y agoAh "Surfer Rosa" my favourite and first Pixies album, takes me back to being 16. Bonus points that the album art had a topless woman on the front and leaving the cassette out in my bedroom was suitably shocking to the Church Youth Group leader who was visiting one day...
- asveikau 3y agoI saw this headline and immediately thought of how "where is my mind?" starts with abruptly saying the word "stop" kind of forcefully. Sure enough that's the issue.
- moremetadata 3y ago[dead]
- eliseomartelli 3y agoI think that having the "Quick Phrases" feature for the alarm is not the smartest thing ever from Google's part
- izacus 3y agoIt's amazingly useful. Even if there's a single hard to trigger corner case.
- Apocryphon 3y agoA Twitter ad triggered “Hey, Siri” for me yesterday, so these vocal prompts are generally pretty dumb.