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I dunno, claude generates pure linguistic puzzles in javadoc.
Funnily enough, the underlying signal is what’s nonsensical; the individual sentences are always well structured
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> Somewhere, you need aluminum smelters, steel mills, and copper mines. Why? We already have plenty of materials that can, are close, or have potential pathways for functional substitutes depending on the application? We are already pretty reliably able to print metal with machines no bigger than a fridge. What happens when a curable resin or impregnated plastic can sufficiently replace steel/aluminum/copper for func…
...this commenter has never worked in manufacturing or studied materials science, and it shows. Or, I'd wager, dropped a 3D printed resin part on a hard floor and watched it shatter like glass.
I-beam made from steel with rolling mill.[2] Can hold up large building.
Title is unrelated to content. If you want "a hunter gatherer lifestyle with space age tools" read "Walkaway", by Cory Doctorow. This is the 3D printer fantasy future, where everything can be made easily with small and easily available high-tech equipment. It sort of works in the story. But in reality, 3D printers aren't that good. Somewhere, you need aluminum smelters, steel mills, and copper mines. Those don't scal…
I had a friend who believed that large cities should be abolished and society should be made agrarian by law. She believed that that way we would have more free time to pursue our intellectual curiosities, unburdened by our dependence on and duty to urban society. I was like... I'm descended from farm folk. My mom grew up in a farmhouse that had no television and not even indoor plumbing for the first few years of he…