3d printers, maaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnnn

  • SkingradGuard [he/him, comrade/them]
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    8 months ago

    a day

    My brother in plastic, a 3d printer will take a day to print a silly figurine, let alone a whole ass bridge made of metal and concrete.

  • shukufuku@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    A level 11 wizard could simply cast wall of iron, fabricate, teleport, and telekinesis. It could be done in one day at no cost to the tax payer.

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      8 months ago

      Why even hire a duplicitous wizard when we could simply have the townsfolk pray to Fharlanghn, God of Roads, until a bridge manifests itself out of thin air

    • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
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      8 months ago

      Getting a level 11 wizard to cast spell slots for you is not cheap actually.

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    8 months ago

    Techbros think that a country that can't even maintain a metal and concrete bridge also will have the infrastructure to 3D print that same bridge and then assemble it in two days, and also somehow not be publicly funded

    I think techbros like this should just renounce the west and live in China. They already have Public works projects that get built near instantaneously. Except it's not with AI and drones or whatever, it's the power of a coherent communist party

  • kristina [she/her]
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    8 months ago

    Unironically China is building dams that usually take 10 years to build in 2 years by essentially 3d printing the dam layer by layer using automated driverless cement trucks as extruders.

    But in 2 days? Man some people are just..

    • Tunnelvision [they/them]
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      8 months ago

      Why won’t they understand that the future looks like shit to the rest of us?

  • SSJ2Marx
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    8 months ago

    Did they ever get those 3D printed houses off the ground, or are they still just a concept?

    edit: okay so the number worldwide is less than 200 as of a couple years ago, so it's still very rare and in the "figuring out if it's worth it" phase. 3D printers have a looooong way to go before they're able to even be considered for something this large, and then they'll still have a long way to go before they're competitive with already-existing steel manufacturing.

    And what advantage would 3D printing bring to bridgemaking anyway? Steel is very recyclable, so material efficiency isn't really a large benefit. Most of the process in terms of time is moving the pieces into position and assembling them, while making steel beams and cables are both very fast and mature processes, so that's not good either.

    And what the fuck is the AI going to do, generate a blueprint that's just a bunch of noise?

    • edge [he/him]
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      8 months ago

      And what the fuck is the AI going to do, generate a blueprint that's just a bunch of noise?

      I once asked ChatGPT to generate an svg file of a star shape, it completely failed across multiple attempts.

      But I’m sure it could definitely generate the files necessary to 3D print a safe steel beam.