Forgot to say: 1.1 has quite a lot of QoL improvements, so make sure you learn from a source made for 1.1 and not 1.0 or earlier.

If it was good someone familiar with other CAD software would be able to switch to it without so many issues.

I don’t think this is true. Professional software is usually very hard to switch between. Be it CAD, video editing, 3D modeling, animation, programming, painting, freaking file sharing, or pretty much any other field of endeavor. Each program/tool/suite prescribes a certain workflow, and it almost never matches the workflow of another tool designed for the exact same purpose.

For exactly the same reason, it’s hard to switch between operating systems, especially if you’re a power user who knows a lot about how things work in the OS you’re used to. It’s not a sign that either OS is better than the other, it’s just how used the user is to a certain way of doing things.

I think this is also why Adobe and Autodesk are still doing alright. A large part of their customer base are just people who would have too much friction switching to a different, better (imo) suite of tools, so staying with the tool they know is worth the cost.

I don’t know your situation, but from your comment I think I can recommend pushing through the re-learning period with FreeCAD. It’s good.

No, you’re 100% right. The only reason it’s this way is this: https://pikuma.com/blog/origins-of-vim-text-editor

These literally were the arrow keys on the machine that vim was originally developed on.

When’s the last time you tried FreeCAD? I also used to think it’s trash, but version 1.0 really changed that and now 1.1 is freaking amazing.

There was a dot-com bubble too. The internet was here to stay, but it was still a bubble. It’s not an either-or situation.

I think a good doctor wouldn’t even say it’s safe. It’s more accurate to say: the potential harm of a single x-ray is small/negligible, and the benefit of being able to correctly diagnose you and create an informed treatment plan is well worth that risk.

Crossing the street isn’t completely safe, but if you need to get to the other side, you take that risk because it’s worth it. But you shouldn’t cross the street willy nilly for no reason, that would be stupidly dangerous. It’s kind of like that.

They would have to think something awaits for them in the divine for resisting.

https://youtu.be/jXO5axomU7Q (perhaps my favorite and most relatable Hank Green video in recent memory)

Can’t believe I missed that. Thanks!

I don’t work out and I don’t see any difference whatsoever between the first two

I hate when that happens. Gotta be a manufacturing error. It happens to me all the time with spoons as well, I’m eating with one normally, and then suddenly it turns inside out and can’t grab any soup!

There have been some claims that the numberphile video is very misrepresentative of the underlying math. But I never dug deep enough into it.

There are no rules. Only exceptions.

In many languages the days are numbered, e.g. “First day”, “Second day”, …, “Seventh day”. Speakers of those languages have no question about when the week starts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_the_days_of_the_week#Numbered_days_of_the_week

Notably, the older languages start the week on Sunday. Some of the languages that start the week on Monday can be attributed to mistranslation from the former group. So starting the week on Sunday is historically more correct.

Disclosure: I speak a language that starts the week on Sunday, so I’m biased.

Literal superpower. You hold us all at your mercy.

Is it worth it? That depends. What percentage of the boys does it bring to the yard?

Yes. In a frictionless vacuum.

My biggest gripe is:

1. Save game
2. (without ever resuming gameplay) Exit game
3. “Are you sure? Any unsaved progress will be lost!”

I JUST SAVED! YOU KNOW I JUST SAVED! YOU KNOW THERE’S NO RISK OF PROGRESS LOSS!

In most of those cases there’s no “save and exit” option.

The de facto lingua franca is English, except things like “de facto” or “lingua franca”.

2038 is going to be a fun year with all the 32bit clocks overflowing to 1970

Actually 13 December 1901, since it overflows to negative, not zero.

Other than that, good answer, full marks

“For the most part” does not mean “entirely”.

I’m not taking a side here: maybe you’re right, maybe OP’s right. But I won’t stand for such cheap arguments!

Edit: just saw OP made a similarly terrible argument in another comment chain. Welp.