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No - I just checked and I am averaging about 20 queries a day on workdays (software dev) and ~4 per day at weekends (random factfinding where google fails).

Recent queries:

  * Is the english channel wider now than when the romans crossed it, due to erosion and sea level rise?
(Conclusion... probably, but nobody seems to have researched this)

  * Write me some python to output gcode using a gcode library.
(Gave me examples with a few different libraries, because 'gcody' that I was using before seems to have been unmaintained too long)

  * What is the name of the drink that everyone used to drink at makerspaces
(Club Mate - but google didn't seem to know)

  * Write me brief python code to calculate how often 9 tosses of a biased coin has more heads than tails.  The coin returns heads with probability p.
(gave me the answer far quicker than writing the code from scratch)

  * give me a nmap commandline to get lots of info about an ip address
(far quicker than reading the manpage to figure out how to turn on all the tests/checks available)


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