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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.
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.if you put !g anywhere it’ll redirect you to google.com
Here’s what I like about it:
But also turning off AI and location.
If, like me, you don’t like to login to things, you can set your browser to use NoAI DDG by default.
Random, but what’s with the Lettland toggle? I can see you’re German, why is there a toggle that basically says “Latvia”?
Kiloyard Yard Centiyard Milliyard
Easy fixed US Customary
No one would know 3 ceniyards would be equal to about an inch.
But see that’s one of the main problems. US goes yard-feet-inch-fraction of inch. And Meteric goes meter-centimeter-millimeter. The feet-inch type measurement disappears and those are the most common for people in everyday life.
~3 decimeters in a foot.
I feel like if the meteric system used decimeters more it would have caught on.
My door frame needs to be 36 inches or 3 ft wide. ×3 = 9 Decimeters.
But if I give a measurement in decimeters to a person that uses metric it’s like I’m using some kind of forbidden unit.
Decimeters are still fine, wait till you hit people with the Dekameter or Hectometer
if you wanna be real fun you can always swap out Tons with Megagrams and its not even wrong
its not google or Microsoft. that alone makes ddg far superior.
It uses bing’s search index though…
How can you say its superior when it wont even tell me how many washing machines are in a giraffe.
I’d like to see the X-ray of that.
I don’t know why you’re all complaining. 1 mile = 3 muricaball fields = 24.7 Dodge™ Chargers = 2245.45 sausages = 3 fingers ( sponsored by Exxon and Pepperidge Farms).
Its very simple.
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. 😑😑
It’s a dumpster that was once fun.
Yet DDG still uses AI. Better use Startpage instead. It’s like what Google used to be before they became shit and evil. I find it has better results than DDG, next to that they don’t use AI. They also value privacy. And it’s Dutch, so non American.
I just checked out startpage having never heard of it. They want me to log in. They want me to download an app. Their video search apparently censors NSFW content even with safe search turned off. The overall search results aren’t better than any other search engine as far as I can tell. This is likely the last time I check out startpage.
I switched to Startpage a few months ago. I’ve personally found the search results to be better than DDG. I still use Google for shopping. Can’t say I ever use the video search function, though. Never been prompted to sign in or create an account. Never downloaded an app.
Most AI features were turned off by default for me and if you really want to be sure, there is always https://noai.duckduckgo.com/ you can use.
Your phone keyboard also uses AI. And file search you use everyday.
Please, don’t boycott the good company just because they have a separate fancy UI for a chatbot.
60’ is 18m.
Y’all need to learn about significant digits.
What’s the wee apostrophe for? That means fuck all to me.
It’s an old abbreviation for feet. A double quote is also an old abbreviation for inches.
It’s a shorthand I learned from my father who was an engineer back before my country converted to the metric system.
There’s a reply below making fun of this as the apostrophe and quote are also abbreviations for minutes and seconds too.
Not so good for building things, eh?
The hard mounting points, set in concrete for a large generator are to be 60 feet apart, per the manufacturer’s instructions. The construction company rounds 18.288m to 18m because “significant digits, oi!”
The mounting points are now 28 centimeters too close together. The generator shows up on site, and now needs to sit to the side for four days while the hard points are moved. Or, maybe longer, because concrete trucks need to be scheduled ahead of time. It could be two weeks.
An engineer using DDG for units conversion should be procecuted for malpractice.
The first line was broadly right. But you blundered on the second, especially by phrasing it in a condescending way, because how many figures you should quote to depends on more context than just how many figures the input was quoted to.
60’ is 18m
60’ is 60min(utes)
Technically correct (the best kind of correct).
I don’t have to learn shit about that goofy ass measurement system
Delightfully ambiguous :-)
I’m talking about the one that english people use
If you haven’t, you need to try Kagi search and that’s the best search engine in existence
They should limit free searches to a certain number per day, maybe 10 searches. That way people would come back knowing they can try it again, making the free level actually useful, and perhaps eventually get pulled into paying for it. The 100 searches hard limit wasn’t enough to convince me that I should pay $5/mo., or whatever it is, for just 300 searches. I’ve never gone back to try it again. It should be $5/mo. for 100 searches per day. That would get many more people on board, since that’s more than most people would use in a day, and they could still have the higher tiers for the heavy users.
They’ve priced it wrong if they want the site to grow. But, maybe they’ve priced it right for whatever size they want it to be.
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.
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.
Construction workers can usually measure stuff out by hand
Why dont they use feet? 😉
Construction workers can usually measure stuff out by hand
This is how not to construct things.
Measure twice, cut once. Then start over cause you measured with your hands like a buffoon.
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.
The US uses stupid measurements and makes up any excuse to keep using them
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.
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.
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?! 😉
put your conversions in krunner like the foss gods intended
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