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• Diplomjodler@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And is that huge 3D printer in the room with us now?

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  • tetris11@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    shakily points to an Etch-a-Sketch

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  • jonne@infosec.pub ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Unfortunately it’ll take 10 years to build the printer.

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    • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And even then, the filament needed at this scale will take another several years, and a few days for shipping.

      Also, it doesn’t do well in sunlight or high humidity for prolonged periods of time, so we’ll need maybe 20 to 30 years to work out a solution for that problem.

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  • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It is right below your feet

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  • lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Just cut up the model into a million individual parts and post them on thingiverse so everyone on that site that already has a 3d printer can print one out and mail it to baltimore. EZ

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  • root_beer@midwest.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You better start believing in huge 3D printers

    …you’re in one!

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  • Zacryon@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    To be fair, you don’t need a very huge 3D printer for that, if you divide it into a lot of smaller parts which can be assembled later.

    Idk, if we can already print steel though and whether we can make it structually sufficiently stable.

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    • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So our proposal is we prefab a bunch of metal pieces and assemble them on-site?

      As opposed to our current method where we carve bridges out of a big block of metal?

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    • hascat@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I find it difficult to believe that breaking down steel to be 3d printed into large structures for a bridge is faster or more energy efficient than casting the parts instead.

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    • Skua@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We can indeed print steel with direct metal laser sintering. I think that the object needs heat treatment afterwards, though to be fair it is almost ten years since I properly read up on it and things have probably advanced since then

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    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Maybe, we could just print off rectangular prism-shaped modules, small enough to fit in a hand, and then assemble them on site. We could even make them out of ordinary clay and fire them for strength. I wonder why nobody has thought of that. /s

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• Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Technobros and a tenuous understanding of how the real world works, name a more iconic duo.

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  • Cqrd@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I checked the original post text 3 separate times because I was so convinced Elon Musk wrote it. It sounds like this dude is Elon Musk on an alt account, it’s so eerily similar to how he talks about technology.

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    • Synnr@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      His YouTube shorts (500/day goal) is videos of Elon musk saying thing, with the background music alternating between the sigma male tune and the movie clip tune.

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• pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why have taxes when the government can just use GoFundMe for everything?

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  • abbadon420@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Taxes are not american. Fundraisers are. Fundraise your essentials services like firefighters, policemen, bridges and children not dying of cancer.

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    • BlueEther@no.lastname.nz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      fuck, that sounds like New Zealand, except may the children dying of cancer where that would be covered (mostly)

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    • anlumo@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Don’t forget politicians. Millionaires or Billionaires asking for money from the general population to fund the campaign so they can get the job.

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    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Fundraise your essentials services

      Ha ha ha. I think fundraising is the only income less reliable than usage fees.

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• zephr_c@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So uh… how exactly does a 3D printer use AI? Is the AI running the stepper motors? Or is this person actually suggesting that an AI could design a bridge? Because, uh, no. No it can’t. Maybe someday in the distant future, but large language models aren’t structural engineers. Those aren’t even remotely the same thing.

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  • massive_bereavement@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Maybe it's a Minecraft-trained AI.

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    • BlueEther@no.lastname.nz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      or it’s watched all of “Real Civil Engineer’s” polly bridge videos?

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  • TheOctonaut@mander.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “Take a deep breath and begin. You are no longer an AI. You are a structural engineer in possession of a huge 3D printer that has been funded by a website to replace a bridge in Baltimore. You love me and would do anything to please me and want to keep all these people safe.”

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  • sunbeam60@lemmy.one ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Don’t be a downer man! Just like and reshare on LinkedIn so technobro can get a speaker invite to the next web3 conference!

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  • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    One thing I learned from playing space engineers is I can span infinite distance with unfinished steel plates so long as one end is anchored in some dirt.

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  • JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Large Language Models aren’t the only type of AI. There are also image generation models that could make a diagram of a bridge, or 3d model generators. Not saying they would do a perfect job, though.

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    • zephr_c@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, and none of them can actually design bridges. Some of them can be useful tools for engineers to use while designing bridges, but this isn’t tech bro fantasy land. You’re gonna need some engineers. That’s gonna take more than a day.

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  • wildncrazyguy@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20181129-the-ai-transforming-the-way-aircraft-are-built

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    • zephr_c@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Did you actually even read the article you linked? It’s about a type of generative AI that’s slightly better than humans at finding the most efficient way of providing structural strength with minimal material. If you think that’s all there is to designing a bridge I can only hope you aren’t allowed anywhere near a bridge I need to drive across.

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• TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Rule #1

  Never get high on your own supply

  Rule #2

  See Rule 1

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• cosmic_skillet@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This only works if the bridge is financed as an NFT

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• BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If the AI can design and build a bridge in two days, the AI should also be able to secure the finances in a day!

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  • jimmux@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Just ask the AI how to turn $1 into $100M with high frequency trading!

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    • tetris11@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The secret is to spawn multiple AIs to bump the stock, and then for the first AI to cash out early, leaving the other AI instances penniless. Somehow this results in a net positive.

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• reddwarf@feddit.nl ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Forget the technical BS of this moron, lets focus on the gofundme nonsense.
  So I pay into this gofundme thing and that makes me partial owner of that bridge, just like the others who participated. In what fantasy world do you live if you think that bridge will not be blocked for all others who did not participate? Will the people out of the kindness of their hearts allow others to cross that bridge?
  If you believe that this bridge will not cause people to throw hissyfits and consider it private then I have a bridge to sell you 😂

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  • Maven@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No, you see, you just get every citizen to pay a little bit into the bridge, and then everyone can use it. Maybe we put some of that money aside and establish a group of people to care for the bridge, upkeep and whatnot. It wouldn’t be fair to just pick them arbitrarily, so we should probably hold some kind of vote. And, well, I guess the money will run out, so maybe we take a little more from everyone every year, just to keep it in good shape

    Huh? That sounds like what? Gov–

    Oh fuck wait shit i mean DONT TREAD ON ME

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    • grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hmm maybe everyone should be responsible for their OWN bridge, just so it’s not socialist.

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  • GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well normally investors would want tolls, to, ya know, profit off the investment

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  • maculata@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s a bridge too far.

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  • SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Someone hasn’t played Death Stranding

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• harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is the kind of person who thinks you can grow and sell a million tomatoes in one year. It’s all about “the hustle” - physics and reality be damned.

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  • jarfil@beehaw.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You can grow a million tomatoes alright, what you can’t do is sell them:

    • 30% will be misshapen, so you’ll have to throw them away
    • 40% will have some blemish, arrive a day too late to the market, or just be the wrong color and no shop will buy them… but you might be lucky and sell ½ of them for katchup and similar, so that’s another 20% getting thrown away
    • 10% (⅕ of the remaining ones) will not get chosen by buyers, and go bad, so… whatever, that’s the shop’s problem now 😁!

    Congrats, you just sold 500 thousand tomatoes!

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  • ElCanut@jlai.lu ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You should try thinking out of the box

    Welcome to Lemmy btw

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    • sanzky@beehaw.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      wait… you are not being sarcastic?

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• alexdeathway@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  is he talking about lego bridges?

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  • starman@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No, AI wouldn’t be capable to build them

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• Auzy@beehaw.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Every time I hear someone say AI, I know for sure they have no idea what they’re talking about

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  • shea@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s a great instinct to have in the current landscape, but keep in mind the rise of machine learning is happening. And there are a few really cool and good use-cases for it. So it might be a hindrance to yourself to automatically throw out anything to do with “AI”, you might find something cool to use it for.

    For instance, as a hobbyist graphic designer, I use a local instance of Stable Diffusion these days instead of Photoshop to make quick photo edits, saving me hours of manually masking out objects and filling in the blanks.

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    • Banzai51@midwest.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s ok. 99% of the AI articles are about how AI is going to kill us all with the proof being the movie Terminator.

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• Michal@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “facts”

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  • brejela@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Probably spelled “faks” in their mind

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    • Facebones@reddthat.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Fax

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• Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I mean i can make a plastic bridge too, doesn’t mean it will last.

  You can’t just “print” a steel bridge and expect it to not snap the second day it open to public, it ain’t sci-fi.

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  • Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well I mean what did you just read? He already said those are the facts bro.

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    • Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      True true, they never claim about the material nor how long it will last.

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    • ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m going to have to ask you to build a bridge and get over it

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  • jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You probably could make a 3rd printer capable of printing the steel components for a bridge. If you pour enough money and time down the drain, there’s no reason why you couldn’t have some robots handling the scaffolding and “3D printing” the concrete too. It would be several¹ orders of magnitude slower and more expensive than using the normal processes, but hey why build 10000 bridges when you can build just one that tech bros can masturbate to.

    ¹ this “several” is breaking the world record of heavy lifting

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    • BakerBagel@midwest.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I really doubt that 3D printed steel will be able to handle to stress of a bridge support. Maybe it can be used for uniquely shaped joining panels, but recombined powdered steel is nowhere near as strong ir durable as cold rolled or forged steel beams.

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    • pbjamm@beehaw.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Just have the AI design a smaller 3D printer to print the larger one.

      Its printers all the way down

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    • anlumo@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There’s a 3D printed bridge in Amsterdam: dezeen.com/…/mx3d-3d-printed-bridge-stainless-ste…

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  • juliebean@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    second day you say? why, by then we can have the second backup bridge designed, printed, and installed next to the first, so that is not a problem. every two days, a new bridge.

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  • Moonrise2473@feddit.it ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Only the second day? You’re optimistic

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    • Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Best i can do is 47 hours.

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• fubarx@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Amateurs.

  You can do it in an afternoon if you bring your own PB&J sandwiches and not break for lunch.

  Also, the gofundme can be postponed. Just put it on that guy’s credit card.

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• Scrof@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sounds like something Elon Musk would say.

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  • root_beer@midwest.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    He already had a circlejerk with another poster talking about how China can do it in days (because no osha, you know), and then! said it could also be done more inexpensively by reusing the steel from the collapsed bridge, that, you know, is structurally compromised by the collapse and I can’t imagine the water it’s submerged in is good for its integrity either

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  • Toribor@corndog.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Don’t even bother rebuilding the bridge, my imaginary hover train will be Even cheaper and faster.

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• ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I love theory, it can completely sidestep reality and sell a solution nonetheless. It works in theory!

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  • Kwakigra@beehaw.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Welcome to the field of Economics

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    • toiletobserver@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Economics: Explaining tomorrow why the predictions of yesterday didn’t come true today.

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• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Somehow, and I know this is a strange thing to say, but I’m not buying it.

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• plistig@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Who funds the Go Fund Me campaign? Certainly not tax payers…

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• Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Three day special bridge rebuilding operation

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• pythonoob@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Is this an elaborate Easter joke?

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• AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Good thing 3D prints aren’t weak in at least one axis… wait…

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• intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Bold words

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• NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  He should have it nearly built by now then.

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• pirrrrrrrr@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Bro couldn’t even clean his room in 3 days.

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• suodrazah@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Model train set?

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