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You don't like science fiction references in general or Heinlein in particular?

I don't like that word, which was previously a common part of my vocabulary, being forever ruined?

My father's name was Claude, but, you know. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

We need to get these companies to predeclare what names they're going to use for the next 50 or 60 years so we can avoid them.

Pouring one out for all the "Alexa"s in the world.

It is weird to me that Amazon chose a fairly common name. There are plenty of short, more unique names out there.

I have ours set to “Computer” anyways, partly due to Star Trek and partly because it annoys my wife when we use the term in conversation and it picks it up. It has the side effect of being harder to pronounce for our kids, which was probably a good thing.

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