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My favorite is, given that I have a baby and I am a trained scientist and I live in the US, I find myself converting milliliters to fluid ounces a lot. Right n
by crdrost 5y ago
My favorite is, given that I have a baby and I am a trained scientist and I live in the US, I find myself converting milliliters to fluid ounces a lot.
Right now the Google Assistant will correctly transcribe the request to a Google search... Only for the search to interpret “ml” as “miles” and, faced with the discrepancy between the length and a volume, cube the miles. So I am expecting an amount that is like 1 oz because I am converting like 30 mL... and I instead get 4 quadrillion ounces (exact number is 1 mi³ = 140,942,994,870,857 + 1/7 oz because of course it's got that extra 7th in there what were you expecting from our ridiculous US system, haha).
- otherotherchris 5y agoTen years ago Google Calculator used to work perfectly. I don't understand how they've broken it and why no one is responsible for fixing it. Perhaps everyone who understood the codebase has left?
- Hayarotle 5y agoAt least we can still use duckduckgo and use the !wa bang (wolfram alpha) Sometimes even without the !wa, as duckduckgo itself often provides the result
- hn_go_brrrrr 5y agoNo one is going to get promoted for maintaining a calculator, so it rotted. Clearly they should have put a chat app in it.
- osipov 5y ago
- remus 5y agoIt's not that broken. If you type "30ml in fluid ounces" in to google (i.e. the same thing you did 10 years ago) it works as expected.