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From a 3d print perspective - holy shit the extrusion is way off. Extra splooge on the corners, layer lines are shit. I’d trash it and recalibrate. Even concrete prints can look better.

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with all the union-busting they have been doing recently, they are trying to eliminate that by testing out the automated store.

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Thank god that the US is continuing to innovate in the absolute dog-shit cheap and dirty building sector

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If it leads to housing prices dropping, I’m good with ugly.

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Place your bets, when will Starbucks / A Company that uses this method start implementing AI to design the buildings and run the printers? The last part of the article they talk about how this was more expensive than normal, but it “addressed a labor shortage.” Motherfuckers will literally spend twice as much just to not pay a human a living wage.

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“addressing labor shortage”= finding a way to bypassing the meddlesome union-loving employees.

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I was once looking at a robot lawnmower to tend to my ageing parents lawn. I was looking at prices over a thousand bucks and thinking seriously.

My parents hired a local handyman to do it every few weeks for a small sum that across a year would still be less than the robo mower and do a better job at it and without the hurdles of maintaining that mower.

That realisation had me reevaluating automation as a whole.

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How many years will that mower last though? I have a riding mower that I paid $2100.00 for… 14 years ago.

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If you need 500,000 screws all fitted to a target pressure then automation is what you want. But one off tasks like cutting the grass or trimming the hedge, you’ll end up spending more on the equipment then you’ll save.

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36 points

You wouldn’t download a Starbucks,…

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Oh yah baby give that raw espresso shot to my veins!!

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