- 16 days
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.
- arudesalad@piefed.caEnglish16 days
I can tell that a student on a software engineering placement had a very fun afternoon making this
- [deleted]@piefed.worldEnglish16 days
Does it work for football fields to real units?
I use noai.ddg and don’t get the converter thingy.
- [deleted]@piefed.worldEnglish16 days
I don’t get it for football fields or other ‘anything but metric’ units which is what I was going for.
- faythofdragons@slrpnk.netEnglish16 days
oic, yeah. When I try to convert “football fields” into meters, it gets it confused with sqft.
- 16 days
theres one for olympic sized swimming pool which is a substitute for volume.
16 daysA football field is 100 yards, so just try “100 yards in real units” if you’re genuinely curious.
- [deleted]@piefed.worldEnglish16 days
I use noai.ddg and don’t get the converter thingy.
Tried going to regular ddg and don’t get the converter thing, just regular results. I probably turned off a setting somewhere.
I’m getting it intermittently too, for what it’s worth. Depending heavily on the unit. For example, I tried and realized “100 yards in real units” doesn’t work, but “100 feet in real units” does.
- [deleted]@piefed.worldEnglish16 days
I don’t want to ask it yards. I want to ask it in ‘anything but metric’ units like football fields and Olympic sized swimming pools.
Didn’t try regular measurements before, but yeah now I see it when I use those.
- 16 days
Really curious what the pattern is here. I don’t get the converter on noai either.
True, but:
When the “football field” is used as unit of measurement, it is usually understood to mean 100 yards (91.44 m),
- 14 days
They at least had the good sense to shift USC to exact metric decimal definitions.
Yuck yuck yucky. USC hurts. And RIP US-based engineers.
- 16 days
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.
- 16 days
You usually don’t convert the units in the day to day. Either something is a few inches, a few feet, or a mile away. Construction workers can usually measure stuff out by hand (literally) if they’re doing stuff like framing.
A cup is quite literally a standard cup size. Any modern recipe will just be like “2 ¼ cups of milk” you can measure it or eyeball it. Anything smaller and you’re using measuring spoons anyway, so conversion doesn’t matter again.
The US uses stupid measurements and makes up any excuse to keep using them
- SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zipEnglish15 days
Why do non-US people get weirdly emotionally invested in it? I mean, if we’re criticizing, it’s worse that US recipes use cups and tablespoons (measures of volume) for ingredients (like flour) that should be measured by weight.
- 15 days
I’m an immigrant in Canada. Canada officially adopted the metric system, migrated from 1970 to 1985, when the commission was abolished.
40 years later, due to inertia AND the proximity to a larger country that still uses a backward metric system, we have a mash-up of both systems here.
So yeah, I kind of feel it strongly.But well, it’s like people: you like them for their inherent qualities, you love them for their quirks.
- SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zipEnglish15 days
It’s the same here in the US, and I’m not sure that everybody realizes it. We officially adopted the metric system, too, but we haven’t undertaken the massive effort needed to replace all of the legacy systems. For instance, all of our food labels have the volume in (milli)liters, and weight in grams; true, mostly that’s listed as the conversion of the fluid ounces or ounces, but a few products have only the metric units. The required nutrition information label on the back is entirely in (milli)grams. Electricity is metered in metric units, and the electromagnetic spectrum is demarcated in them, too. All of our cars, motorcycles, bicycles, computers, and electronics use metric dimensions. (Hence the joke among mechanics about the 10mm socket always going missing.) Randomly, I’ve been looking for a couple of different light bulbs to buy online; every specification of a US bulb (base size, globe size, electrical requirements, luminous flux, color temperature) is a metric unit. Our money is metric, not just the denominations, but US law specifies the size and weight of coinage in metric units. (The dollar coin, for example, is 2mm thick.) Heck, even the US customary units are now officially defined in terms of SI units!
It’s pretty much the units that people interact with day-to-day that we’ve kept the US customary system. Except for, y’know, drugs and ammo. The most-American of all things, cars, food, money, drugs, and ammo, all metric. What more do you want from us?! 😉
- 15 days
I’m not advocating for the continued use of imperial units. I do all of my work in metric units. I’m just explaining why the average person in the US doesn’t really care about one system over another.
- 15 days
Construction workers can usually measure stuff out by hand
This is how not to construct things.
- ShinkanTrain@lemmy.mlEnglish15 days
Measure twice, cut once. Then start over cause you measured with your hands like a buffoon.
- matlag@sh.itjust.worksEnglish15 days
Alright! Alright! I’ll do it again! So… one… two… three… four… five… six feet and… yeah, that ought to be six feet a half.
- 15 days
Professionals tend to do it wrong and then just cover it up afterwards because it’s faster/saves money.
Source: did carpentry/home renos when I was younger.
- 15 days
Construction workers can usually measure stuff out by hand
Why dont they use feet? 😉
- 15 days
Sorry but cups seem to mainly be a Usian thing. As far as I’m aware most of the world uses actual metric measures, grams, ml and sometimes tbsp and tsp.
- 15 days
I don’t know why you’re all complaining. 1 mile = 3 muricaball fields = 24.7 Dodge™ Chargers = 2245.45 sausages = 3 thumbs-up (sponsored by Exxon and Doritos).
Its very simple.
- 14 days
This is just absurd.
1 mi =17.6 muricaball fields ~ 309 dodge chargers ~ 10560 sausages
(oh god I fucked up the math didn’t I… here it comes…)
I’ve been told the DDG results are the same as Google, yet every time I compare they are quite different.
I’ve been using DDG since Trump’s first term, when Google started manipulating COVID search results if memory serves.
- 14 days
DDG defaults to the Bing database, iirc. Probably that’s not all that different from Google, but I think you can preface your search with
!gto get identical results.
- 15 days
It’s not fun that you have to use multiple search engines now. I mainly use Qwant and I qwant to like it but wow is it terrible.
Forget search engines, i feel like im going through different browsers now just to get what i want. The internet is getting so bloated cause of AI. 😑😑
- 14 days
I’m solely using DDG and while it took some time to acquainted with it these days I usually always find what I’m looking for.
How can you say its superior when it wont even tell me how many washing machines are in a giraffe.
- 15 days
It’s probably your fault for specifying what kind of giraffe.
Doesn’t seem to work for volume, having tried gallons and teaspoons. But it works for length and mass/weight.
- pemptago@lemmy.mlEnglish15 days
Used this all the time until I recently stumbled across the cli program
units - 14 days
If, like me, you don’t like to login to things, you can set your browser to use NoAI DDG by default.
- 16 days
Seems useful for those cases you don’t know what a furlong even measures.
I wonder how well it handles ounces.
- 16 days
Works too, but it’s some AI thingy not the native search (which also uses AI so maybe it doesn’t really matter).
- 16 days
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.
- 16 days
It converts into another imperial weight unity, and an international volume unity…
It didn’t ask for clarification if you are dealing with precious metals…
I’m not sure any system like that can really work for ounces. But well, that’s not bad.
