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anoldperson

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    Comment #43889693

    Learn FreeCAD. Getting trapped in commercial software and having to abandon years and years worth of project files isn't a mistake I'm making twice. Fusion seems attractive, but lo…

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    Comment #43851134

    Being deliberately obtuse, or ignoring the context?

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    Comment #43777034

    > Then it ticked past the sixty-second mark, making it longer than the others that week. The shaking intensified. That last sentence struck a chord. It's crazy being in the most vi…

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    Comment #43668755

    Takes two seconds to call somebody a wanker.

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    Comment #43668714

    The last thing I searched for was about the lady who sunk the New Zealand Naval vessel. It told me she was a captain in the United States Navy. I said that was absolutely not true …

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    Comment #43626700

    AFAICT ChatGPT is mostly useless and can't be trusted to answer questions accurately. So no, mostly all search engines. To be honesty I'm surprised anybody uses it for anything oth…

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    Comment #43486680

    I'm pretty old now; if I knew who made that decision and that they were coming to my country, I'd flip a coin on the risk of prison time for punching them unconscious.

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    Comment #43165265

    I do it every day, so I see it from your perspective. I'm willing to bet there are kids who do not though. Given how many crazy colours my IDE shows everything in, I could definite…

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    Comment #43073235

    Nah, he's talking about these: https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...