Re:What is the business model for DuckDuckGo? (2017)
by reaperducer on Thursday May 28, 2020 @12:15PM
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"it's slow... it takes 4 seconds"
My, how far we've come.
Re:What is the business model for DuckDuckGo? (2017)
by wolfgang42 on Thursday May 28, 2020 @02:01PM
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$ time units -v '2 feet + 2 meters' feet
2 feet + 2 meters = 8.5616798 feet
2 feet + 2 meters = (1 / 0.11679951) feet
real 0m0.009s
user 0m0.005s
sys 0m0.004s
* WA: You'll get a correct result, but it takes 4 seconds.
* Google: 0.185806 square meters, obviously (instantly)
* DDG: Search results
Curiously, I find Google's to be the most helpful. I see the obviously incorrect result and instantly fix it. DDG gives me nothing. WA is too slow to e.g. play around with numbers.
My last computation was trying to figure out which bolt to get for a hole (with McMaster's selections for both bolts and, at some level, holes). I was converting hole sizes / bolt sizes between metric and imperial, and between fraction and decimals, playing around until I found a combo which worked. Once I had Google giving the right answers, I could play around until it worked. With WA, I would have had to wait 4 seconds each time.
By the time I'm doing anything beyond that, it's generally in numpy. There isn't really a spot for WA in between.