Posted by jpluimers on 2017/10/06
In this article we will review sed, the well-known stream editor, and share 15 tips to use it in order to accomplish the goals mentioned earlier, and more.
I like it because 15 Useful ‘sed’ Command Tips and Tricks for Daily Linux System Administration Tasks has a lot of screenshots showing what each expression actually does.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/10/06
I started thinking about writing this post way before [WayBack] When +Google Assistant gets a mind of their own… – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers – Google+.
Though I’ll focus on Google Assistant, the competition (Alexa, Cortana, Siri) have about the same level of incompetence.
Though living in The Netherlands, I use the English version of Google Assistant as it won’t be available in the foreseeable future: [WayBack] Google Assistant in het Nederlands voorlopig toekomstmuziek.
This means that I cannot use Dutch words for destinations, but find English ones.
navigate to Schiphol trainstationnavigate to Amsterdam Airport ArrivalsThe odd thing is that after switching phones, the latter wants to perform this navigation by public traffic, whereas my former phone it would default to navigation for driving by car.
Basically the only interactions that work sort of OK are calling persons and navigating to places.
what's my next appointment succeedswhat's my current appointment (in case you are late, for instance because of traffic conditions) failsThis allows for aliases to persons like my wife, my brother and my mother. But often it:
call my wife mobile, it sometimes presents search results, for instance on “How to spy on my wife’s calls tracking for free”)After defining these aliases, these actions usually work OK:
call my brother mobilecall my mother at homeContrary to calling, where you can define many aliases, you can only define 2 navigation aliases: home and work. Which means these all fail:
navigate to my brother at worknavigate to my mother at homeHeck, even the simple variations fail:
navigate to my brothernavigate to my motherA cool feature would be navigate to my next appointment, but that fails too. No surprise though, as the simpler navigation commands fail.
The best way I found to navigate is to – just before you leave – search on Google Maps in your browser for the route, then open Navigation on your phone (this presumes they use the same account).
Also, since switching phones, I have to indicate how I want to navigate:
navigate home by carnavigate to Amsterdam Airport Arrivals by carStarting applications is a pain.
Examples that work
start pokemon goThese work unreliably:
start navigation sometimes opens the map, but at other times asks where to navigate toThese fail at all:
start dialer (opens a Google search, but fails to start the stock Android Dialer App)start ex-dialer (my dialer of choice: ExDialer)start player FM (fails to locate Player.FM)It is far from intuitive what kinds of phrases will work, sometimes work or will fail.
I could do a search for how to better phrase my requests, but average users won’t
The Google Voice Assistant still has a long way to go to become useable.
–jeroen
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