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A 3d printer is basically just a really fancy hot glue gun (pawb.social)
submitted 9 months ago by CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Specifically the type of printer that prints using spools of plastic filament, but that seems like the most common type anyway

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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

A personal computer is basically just a really fancy calculator.

[–] RealPuyo@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

A calculator is just a very basic computer.?

[–] xoggy@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago

Calculators calculate while computers can be programmed with new instructions. Fancy calculators that can be programmed though, as you say, are basic computers. Meanwhile calculators that run BASIC are BASIC computers.