I'm convinced the Imperial system is like those languages they make up for fantasy novels. I've only ever witnessed it in D&D and it seems impractical to learn for the day to day.
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That's obviously an AI-fake!!!1111
OK, that got me smiling hard. :)
Used this all the time until I recently stubled across the cli program units
Ok, but also
DDG is just a people pleaser. 🤷♂️
This is just funny:
I’m pretty sure it’s just a fuzzy context match.
The only outlier is that God uses inches apparently?
They make about as much sense as cubits.
Right but I don't know specifically how the matching is done so I was just funny that the only example I tried seemed to lean into metric and deride imperial. I'm not saying that's actually the case it just was funny to me that I got that result.
OP:
I can tell that a student on a software engineering placement had a very fun afternoon making this
The duality of duck.
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put your conversions in krunner like the foss gods intended
Now that's obviously just plain incorrect. Everyone knows that real units are measured in bananas.
60 feet = 102.857 bananas
https://bananaforscale.info/convert/length/60-feet-to-bananas
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Its not a joke! It actually works!
Does it work for football fields to real units?
I use noai.ddg and don't get the converter thingy.
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Yes, but:
Ecosia:
I dunno bout you, but it's just easier to say 60ft than 18. 28m!
And I find 20m easier to say than 65.61ft? Sorry, am I missing a joke? Sometimes it's hard to Poe's Law the Americanisms.
Yes, you're missing the joke.
he's missing it by like 1,609.34 meters...
It would be easier to just say a mile.
What a stupid figure of speech.
What's a mile?
Not loving the search engine but the phone browser is a life saver. I barely touch web sites on my phone, but fuck me, away from my home setup and Pihole, I want to scream.
Now do imaginary units
Doesn't seem to work for volume, having tried gallons and teaspoons. But it works for length and mass/weight.
Seems useful for those cases you don't know what a furlong even measures.
I wonder how well it handles ounces.
Works too, but it's some AI thingy not the native search (which also uses AI so maybe it doesn't really matter).
One spawns a pre-coded widget with obvious math equations inside, the other puts out values in a way you can't tell if it calculated stuff or made it all up. I am sure it triggers a side-calculator too, but I can't know if it exists, and if it was properly triggered this time after they presented the output like an answer from their Search Assist LLM tool.
This, and that you get a working multi-unit converter widget you can use again and again without asking DDG once more. I think the old way clearly wins.
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