This type of distance is also measured in time units (including minutes) in Canada. Here's an overall Canadian measurement flowchart showing when they use imperial, when they use metric, when they use ambiguous volume-based Canadian cooking units that can either be metric or Canada-specific customary volumes, and when they use time:
What's interesting is that, when driving, minutes and miles are partially interchangeable, since 60mph is a pretty average driving speed on the highway.
I think the author didn't actually go to this burrito restaurant, but rather just wrote an article as if he was going to go to the burrito restaurant. From the intro:
> We’ve written about the decline of Google Search, and how to rigorously measure it through human evaluation. But why stop at Google? We’re starting a new blog series of real-world ML evaluations, where we investigate search and recommendation systems – whether YouTube, Meta, TikTok, or Amazon. In this post: an evaluation of Facebook Search!
For some businesses Facebook is great, bars that have events, getting a better feel for an apartment complex, a couple other things like that. I won't use it as a maps but to find a place hosting a trivia night it is really useful.
Maybe Facebook doesn't really care if it's bad at that category of search, since nobody in their right mind would use Facebook to figure out where to get burritos.
Sometimes I'll be on Google Maps, zoomed into my city near me, and search for a store I know exists nearby, and it'll zoom out to space, rotate the planet, and zoom back into Iraq to a vaguely similarly named place.
I'm usually in Australia. Sometimes my searches when I have poor connectivity will end up favouring Morocco - maybe that was the last time I shared my location data with them and they can't triangulate from cell towers or something else? Though you'd think they might infer a location from current map view.
The Walmart near me must have setup its wifi access points in a city on the other side of the country from me, because when I'm near it, google thinks i have visited that city.
I had someone give me some GIS data for a project and when projected all the points appeared on the other side of the world. Took me a minute to figure out they needed negatives on their longitudes.
I was about to say I’ve seen it, but nope, I agree. Even putting it in context, like “1m43s” isn’t something I’d see often. “1 min. 43 sec.” is what I would expect.
Google Maps does this regularly. When I forget to include the word "closest" in my voice commands it will inevitably ask me to choose between the Pizza Hut that's 4.5 miles away and the one that's 28.7 miles away. On the upside, it never fails to correctly drop the second half of my perennial response of "the closest one, you fuckwit".
Wow. You were in Richmond and didn't stop at Tacos Los Primos (550 23rd St, Richmond, CA 94804, in parking lot)?
I'm a https://masienda.com/ devotee who regularly makes masa from scratch (nixtamalized Oaxacan corn) for tacos with fire-roasted salsa including garden tomatillos. I still live for my next visit to Richmond, for the tacos.
At least Facebook got the trip to Richmond right. If you want to stay in SF, the Primavera stall at the Saturday farmers market by the Ferry Building is worth the wait.
