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[-] Diplomjodler@feddit.de 199 points 5 months ago

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

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 32 points 5 months ago

shakily points to an Etch-a-Sketch

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 24 points 5 months ago

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

[-] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 23 points 5 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.

[-] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 14 points 5 months ago

I can only assume they're trying to talk about concrete 3D printing, but oh boy is that not ready for anything which needs strength.

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[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 11 points 5 months ago

It is right below your feet

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Just cut up the model into a million smaller 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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[-] Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone 168 points 5 months ago

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

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[-] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 147 points 5 months ago

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

[-] abbadon420@lemm.ee 70 points 5 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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[-] zephr_c@lemm.ee 84 points 5 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.

[-] massive_bereavement@kbin.social 41 points 5 months ago

Maybe it's a Minecraft-trained AI.

[-] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 16 points 5 months ago

or it's watched all of "Real Civil Engineer's" polly bridge videos?

[-] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 24 points 5 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."

[-] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 22 points 5 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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[-] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 73 points 5 months ago

Rule #1

Never get high on your own supply

Rule #2

See Rule 1

[-] cosmic_skillet@lemmy.ml 65 points 5 months ago

This only works if the bridge is financed as an NFT

[-] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 58 points 5 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!

[-] jimmux@programming.dev 35 points 5 months ago

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

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 17 points 5 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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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 45 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

This is true... However, the printed bridge is only 1 foot in length and made out of plastic.

[-] Malgas@beehaw.org 28 points 5 months ago

He did specify a large 3D printer. So it might be 2 or even 3 feet in length.

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[-] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 44 points 5 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.

[-] jarfil@beehaw.org 14 points 5 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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[-] reddwarf@feddit.nl 41 points 5 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 😂

[-] Maven@lemmy.sdf.org 62 points 5 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

[-] Facebones@reddthat.com 12 points 5 months ago

I live near the projects (no judgement, I had my stint in the pjs) and there's a dude who lives there who flies a "don't tread on me" flag. Guess he doesn't mind treading so long as it's paying his rent though. 🤔

He recently upgraded it to the "thinly veiled let's overthrow the gubmint insurrection 1776" flag. It makes me want to drop a note in his mailbox asking who will pay his rent if he overthrows the govt?

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[-] alexdeathway@programming.dev 41 points 5 months ago

is he talking about lego bridges?

[-] starman@programming.dev 11 points 5 months ago

No, AI wouldn't be capable to build them

[-] Auzy@beehaw.org 38 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Every time I hear someone say AI, I know for sure they have no idea what they're talking about and are about to grift people

[-] shea@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 5 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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[-] fubarx@lemmy.ml 34 points 5 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.

[-] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 33 points 5 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.

[-] Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 48 points 5 months ago

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

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[-] Scrof@sopuli.xyz 32 points 5 months ago

Sounds like something Elon Musk would say.

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[-] Michal@programming.dev 31 points 5 months ago
[-] brejela@lemm.ee 12 points 5 months ago

Probably spelled "faks" in their mind

[-] Facebones@reddthat.com 10 points 5 months ago
[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 25 points 5 months ago

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

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[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 23 points 5 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 22 points 5 months ago

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

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[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 16 points 5 months ago

Three day special bridge rebuilding operation

[-] pythonoob@programming.dev 12 points 5 months ago

Is this an elaborate Easter joke?

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[-] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 11 points 5 months ago

Good thing 3D prints aren't weak in at least one axis.. wait..

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