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Re: Quantity of machine code programmers and quantity of Assembly programmers

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From: Dave Garland
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2018 17:00
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On 4/28/2018 10:10 AM, Gareth's Downstairs Computer wrote:
> On 28/04/2018 15:23, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
>> On Sat, 28 Apr 2018 06:44:18 -0700
>> Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> "Alexa, what is the percentage of programmers..."
>>
>>     Has anyone[1] tried to get a bunch of these things to talk to each
>> other ?
>>
>> [1] It won't be me, I won't let any of them listen if I can help it.
>>
> 
> Urban legend of an Alexa in the room responding to the requests made
> to an Alexa in a TV advert?
> 

Texas kid asked Alexa for a dollhouse. The following news story had 
San Diego TV anchors kidding about the order. Reputedly 
dozens/hundreds of orders for dollhouses where Alexa heard the TV 
audio. Snopes says "unproven".
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Subject: Re: Quantity of machine code programmers and quantity of Assembly programmers
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