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Comment by unstatusthequo | Hacker News Reader

Siri excels at setting a hot dog done timer with my voice. That’s good, right?

Tell me your secrets. I’ll practice it in your voice, your language, whatever.

I get a time about half the time, and then if I immediately ask how much left on the timer, Siri informs me there are no timers. Which then promptly goes off.

I set timers for 49 minutes frequently because Siri will hear 15 instead of 50

Reminds me of hitting 99 seconds on the microwave because it’s easier to enter than 1 minute 30.

One of the more obnoxious "features " of English.

We should have big numbers like the French do. "60-10" (70) or "4-20" (80)

Twenty fingers 'n toes. It stands to reason eh.

Fourscore and seven years ago, we did.

Ironically when I want a 15 minute timer, I get given 50 a lot of the time... 14 and 40 are also problematic.

I figure I am just holding it wrong.

You can get around this by asking Siri for a timer for "one five" minutes and "five zero" minutes.

(Folks irl do this too... damn you english language...)

Reminds me that emergency services are adamant about not calling it (as in the song):

    So they called nine-eleven, like any piggy would
    The sent out Rambo, just as fast, as they could

Because in a stressful situation, people would literally get hung up looking for the "11" key on the phone.

And you want it to do what? Fill out your taxes? This is a one-trick pony by design. :-)

how long do you set your hot dog done timer for? do you cook it until plump? usually my dogs split, probably with too high temperature?

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