I swear that with each update they’re adding more and more artificial stupidity
I was reading an Apple Maps “best restaurants” guide and it had a button to get Uber Eats from a restaurant listed as 7,900 miles away.
And? Was it worth it? What did you order?
Lillipad Cafe in Sydney, AU. I was going to order a kangaroo burger with deep-fried saltbush, but turns out they’re closed :(
Damnit. I hope you get another chance soon
Just in case anyone wants this converted to freedom units, 9.792 km is 744 spindles, and 2,6 km is about 95 shackles. HTH
That would be approximately 48,188,975 and 12,795 bananas respectively, assuming 8 inch average banana length. What fruit are we using for scale over here anyways? I missed some committee meetings.
Fruit as the basis for a measurement system? That sounds ridiculous. Use barleycorns like the rest of us!
20 year old me would see that as an opportunity for an epic Harold & Kumar inspired road trip.
Integer overflow? Seems kinda unlikely but just throwing possiblities out there…
Maybe you passed by a space tunnel somehow
And then find out you are in Triangulum, the Galaxy known as M33, and wonder how the hell did you end up two million seven hundred thousand light years away.
“Only the best for you, Dave. Now step into the airlock.”
Do you guys like Burger King? I stopped eating there a long time ago and feel no need to go back after the foot lettuce incident…
I actually enjoy burger King but they are super unhealthy so I rarely go. Maybe once per year
I find Burger King has the best pictures of the worst burgers.
Terrible food, even by the ultra low standards set by McDonald’s.
TIL that incident
LOL how you can post that on 4chan and think they won’t do everything to doxx you 😂
Go on…
Buurgeer king foot lettuce, the last thing you want in your Burger King burger is someone’s foot fungus
Go on…
Buurgeer king foot lettuce
Original longer version: https://youtu.be/azSYefZhv1s
well 9.792 km is a lot than 2,600 km. are you sure you aren’t in malaysia? /s
In my country, for the numbers, the dot and the comma are inverted in usage
9,600 => 9.600 and 2.6 => 2,6 and 9,600.6 => 9.600,6
Seems a nightmare but any software takes care of it since DOS, except on MacOS as apple in their infinite wisdom switched the dot with a comma in the numpad, so each time I type an IP address it comes out as 192,168,1,1 and makes me really mad
yeah the period/comma switch up has caused me some trouble while studying abroad (mostly by apple). the calculator app for example will show a period (to specify decimals), but pressing it will insert a comma (to specify decimals), despite my number formatting settings being set to use periods for decimals.
i probably should’ve added an /s to my comment
Fault of the crappy app you’re using, not Google.
Isn’t this just gmaps search?Which is also incidentally running on Android Auto which is also google?
Edit: nvm it’s a different nav app lmao
Hey were you in Florence near the Piazzale Michelangelo?
WTF??? How did you extract that even if I censored it
I’m surprised 🤯 😂
Yes a bit lucky but just draw the 9xxx km circle around the MY BK and then I saw the circle go straight through Florence (also Bologna was a likely candidate). Then find a BK within 2.6 km with a fairly long street name and draw a circle, it intersects with the other circle in two places. The obvious one was the parking near Piazzale M.
I can also get the GPS coordinates at all times from your phone so it was easy to verify I was right.
Can also make guesses as to where you’re from as well bc not too many languages spell it Malesia
edit: looks like Finland, for example, spells it like that, plus the Italia lines up as well
I’m not the person who found it originally, but I understand how they did it. We have three useful data points: you are 2.6 km from Burger King in Italy, that BK is on a street called "Via " and you are 9792 km from Burger King in Malaysia.
- The upper BK in Malaysia is not censored, so we have its exact location.
- Find a place in Italy that is 9792 km away using the Measure Distance tool on something like Google Maps.
- Even though there are potentially multiple valid locations in Italy, we know you’re within 2.6 km of another BK. Florence is sensible because there are BKs near the 9792 km mark.
- Once we do that, we can find a spot that is both 9792 km from Malaysia BK and 2.6 km from a nearby BK on a street called “Via”, effectively finding where the image was taken.
It’s not perfect but it works well! This is the principle of how your GPS works. It’s called triangulation. We only had distance to two points and one of them doesn’t tell us the sub-kilometer distance. If we had distance to three points, we could find your EXACT location, within some error depending on how detailed the distance information was.Good explanation. Just a tiny detail: “via” in Italian literally means “street”, so not much info there.
Oops. Good to know… I guess the main thing was simply that there was a BK in the right place relative to the 9792 km arc then.
Isn’t the 9792 street distance though rather than a straight line?
I’m not sure Italy and Malaysia is connected by road
I like to see Magic Earth being used in the wild. Didn’t think anyone else was using it lol.
maybe the others on the way are closed
Is that Magic Earth?
Yes
Google Assistant is definitely getting worse and worse all the time. When the Google Homes first released they were actually pretty useful and handy. I was willing to pick a few up and they served a good purpose. They ran CIRCLES around Alexa and all those.
Now many years later, the devices don’t hear questions correctly, have to ask them four different times, they can’t even pick up my wife’s prompt words anymore, don’t even give reasonable answers when they do get the question right… It’s made hundreds of dollars worth of devices infuriating and useless.
I bought a product that worked. It no longer works because it’s been “updated”.
The worst part is that they’re still way better than Alexa. I hate the Google Home app; I can’t use the Alexa app.
Yeah, that’s still true as well. But it feels like one step ahead. Before it was in a totally different field. It’s gotten that much worse.
I’m so glad I’m not alone in this opinion. It’s absurd.
No, a lot of people recognize it has gotten worse, but the post is a device that doesn’t run off google maps but rather another guidance program so it will end up off topic everywhere
Sometimes I really struggle to understand how Google Maps works. I take some time finding the right area I want to search in, center the map in a very specific place, then search for a term or category and then it takes me to a completely different country to show the results.
It was doing this to me yesterday, kind of infuriating.
