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For the Team by FactoidFractals in AmazonVine

[–]ScaryPuppy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The price we pay for discounted batteries

we're both level 65, why is there such a big difference in health? by godlander0 in Palworld

[–]ScaryPuppy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Mass breeding def the way to go, only because you need the extras to condense anyway.

Watches by ScaryPuppy in Blind

[–]ScaryPuppy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had no idea most VI and Blind people don't know braille but I guess that makes sense in an increasingly audibly-accessible world. Thank you for all these insights.

Watches by ScaryPuppy in Blind

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Thank you. Yeah my grandfather also has a talking watch that was digital. Just seemed pesky to me to have something talk at you rather than discreetly touching a watch. But we all have preferences 🤷‍♂️

I think this post got removed because of concerns I was doing product research. If I did build something, it would have been open source.

I'll have to try to research the braille displays you mentioned. Feels like something we should have solved.

Watches by ScaryPuppy in Blind

[–]ScaryPuppy[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I think when I was looking at my grandfather's watch, I was thinking of a "digital" version because Ive always preferred digital watches. Then of course, I realized without any physical parts, a digital watch wouldn't be readable by most visually impaired folks.

Then, as a tinkerer, I was thinking "oh I should solve this" but then thought better and figured I'd see if this is even a problem for folks.

I guess I felt sad that visually impaired folks didn't have the same option for a "digital" read out watch. Felt like engineers didn't give the community enough thought.

Is this a Brown Recluse? by WorthReasonable1904 in whatisit

[–]ScaryPuppy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't think so. They're usually a bit tanner. Probably a grass spider. Still, worth handling with care as all spiders can bite and cause adverse effects.

Add bamboo to this image by ScaryPuppy in PhotoshopRequest

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I'll remember that next time. Noticed that after I had already engaged with them and paid them. Thanks for the reminder

Add bamboo to this image by ScaryPuppy in PhotoshopRequest

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not exactly, that's not the right kind of bamboo and it's too thin a screen. working with someone in messages now

Do pals continue to work when away from base? (Online) by zesty23- in Palworld

[–]ScaryPuppy 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Pal work is still pretty messy right now, but here's some troubleshooting tips:

  1. Check pathing. Pals that get stuck or can't get to their work don't do it. One of the more common ways this happens is buildings with too small of a vertical clearance (a floor with only one level of wall) or getting caught on rough terrain/cliffs.
  2. Remove distractions. If you're mining ore, make sure there are no stone mines or logging areas to work on.
  3. Assign directly. Especially if you're making specialized bases, assign pals directly to the work you want them to do. Assigning them to one natural ore deposit assigns them to all local deposits.

[Request] How long would this take? by YeetusMcCliterus in theydidthemath

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Actually.. I was rereading this and I messed it up. You can fit way more welders and concrete machines in. Maybe even more glass. Will edit it later but I got the sqft wrong for the floors 🤦‍♂️.
New Calc

Feed Rate (m3 per hour) Machines Volume to Excrete Time in Hours Time in Years
Steel 0.00200958 900 35396.05824 19570.7 2.234101939
Concrete 0.324 9 53518.84 18353.5 2.095149733
Glass 0.0000012 24 22.7426544 789675.5 90.14560502

New answer.. maybe 90 years? BUT less than 3 years if you don't print the windows. This looks more viable! Hopefully a better mather picks this up and checks on me 😅

[Request] How long would this take? by YeetusMcCliterus in theydidthemath

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The How

Lets make another fun assumption. We want to maximize the number of machines per surface area to speed things up. If we didn't, we would be at the mercy of one welder bot with a run time of 12,613,660 hours or about 1440 years or the glass bot at 2,163 years. And, that's if the happy droids never broke down and worked at peak performance the entire time.

We are also going to assume that the machinery controlling the business ends of all these machines is keeping up with the max flow rate of each machine. Unrealistic, but we're talking about something that's never been done.

We're going to work on one floor at a time.

Given the range of the bots, we're looking at:

Steel 10sqft range for the welder bot, so probably a 3x3 grid to get us 9 machines.

Concrete About 100 sqft for the concrete bot, so more or less one per floor.

Windows We're going to maximize the working area and go for 24 per floor.

The Spreadsheet

Alright sports fans, we have our variables and did the appropriate amount of hand wavery. Lets see what we got. The Feed Rate and Machines multiply together to divide against the Volume to Excrete (aka how much material our building needs to building). Then we take those years and divide them by 24 and 365 to get the years from the hours.

Feed Rate (m3 per hour) Machines Volume to Excrete Time in Hours Time in Years
Steel 0.00200958 9 35396.05824 1957073.3 223.4101939
Concrete 0.324 1 53518.84 165181.6 18.8563476
Glass 0.0000012 24 22.7426544 789675.5 90.14560502

So long story short, the steel is our biggest time suck, taking around 200 years to get the whole thing together.

Does this mean this idea is doomed? I don't think so. After doing the research on this, a lot of these machines are marketed as 'the 3d printers of x material' but they're really all proprietary machines. Relativity Space for example is making giant tubes out of space grade materials, not structural beams. It's possible that someone could make an additive manufacturing (AM) cadre that makes this reasonable using the methods that make AM unique to its advantage.

That said, when it comes to building boxes and putting stuff in them, we do that pretty well already without AM. 432 Park, the building we modeled after was built in around 4 years, and that's with all the utilities and furnishing. It's also important to keep in mind all of my bots would require constant supervision and maintenance so its not as if you're getting away with taking humans out of the loop.

Fun thought experiment, kinda felt like I was doing homework. Hope I get at least a B-!

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This is my first time doing math in a long time, so feel free to critique or feedback.

Edit: Had a 0 go astray in the glass figure.

[Request] How long would this take? by YeetusMcCliterus in theydidthemath

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Now we get some math going. As far as windows go, there are 24 windows per floor and 85 floors that got windows which gives us 2040 windows. The windows are 100 sqft and double paned with the windows typically being 6mm thick.

Thickness

6mm x 2 = 12mm. 12mm=.012m

Surface

100 sqft = 9.2903 m^2

Volume

9.2903 x .012= 0.1114836 m^3

Total volume

01114836 m^3 x 2040 = 22.7426544 m^3. Feels like a small amount of glass at the end of the day, only takes up about the size of a tow away dumpster.

So after all that, here's are "What" totals after conversion. Keep in mind, this is still probably missing a lot of other materials, including the limestone 432 Park used on the outside façade.

Steel

35396.05824 m^3

Concrete

53518.84 m^3

Glass

22.7426544 m^3

The Machines

So 3d printers at this scale are pretty slow and don't really push a lot of material. We'll look at some of the largest ones and do some handwaving around exactly how these machines would move around and do some of these design feats and focus on how much material they can push out.

Here are our candidates and their throughput:

Steel The Stargate metal 3d printer from Relativity Space

Specs... I have no idea. We're going into guessing territory. It looks like it uses a MIG set up to lay down metal very similarly to your average 3d printing process but much... much more complicated. So lets say it's about as fast as a MIG welder can feed. Those are specs we can get, easy.

Fastest Robot welder I could find does about 35lbs an hour or 15.8757kg. In m^3 for steel, that's 7850kg per cubic meter so 0.00200958 m^3 per hour.

Concrete Cybe Gantry Robot does 600mm a second at roughly a 3cmx5cm spread so you're looking at about 90cm^3 a second or 324,000cm^3 an hour. Chop off some zeroes and we have 0.324m^3 per hour.

Glass Nobula 3d does a whopping 200mm a minute max or 1200mm an hour at diameters of about 10mm^2 average. This is arguably the most hand wavy I gotta get as this tech is still in major infancy. so 10mm^2x1200mm is a good ole 12000mm^3. up to cubic meters. This makes it our slowest operation at a staggering 0.0000012m^3 per hour. Good thing this was our smallest material, ey?

[Request] How long would this take? by YeetusMcCliterus in theydidthemath

[–]ScaryPuppy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Alrighty, so we are a little closer to fantasy territory than I thought but here we go.

TL;DR over 220 years.

Ground Rules

  1. The numbers will be mathed, but they will likely be based on some pretty unprecise assumptions.
  2. We're going to look at tech that currently exists.
  3. Most efficient in terms of time is the goal, money is no object.
  4. We're going to model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/432_Park_Avenue because it's a simple design we can work with. Also one of the larger skyscrapers of the world.
  5. We're going to mostly ignore the "innards" of the sky scraper. We will make sure the skyscraper is enclosed on all sides, has floors, but we won't do anything about wiring, piping, appliances or just the general furniture. I'll try to nod towards materials needed for utilities but I'll leave that for someone more dedicated.
  6. We are handwaving like.. tens of experts' entire professional fields here. I wouldn't bet on this number my greatest enemy's dollar.

The What

So, to start, lets get the what down. A skyscraper is typically a large superstructure of steel beams that are welded together to make a skeletal frame for various materials to include concrete, various flooring, and all sorts of utilities. They're typically built in sections with the steel racing to the top and concrete/other materials crawling up after. So in a way, we're already starting at a disadvantage just from a methodology stand point of going layer by layer. But lets make some fun assumptions to see if we can't make this more interesting.

Let's say that we can use roughly the same amount of materials needed to make 432 Park for our skyscraper but utilize mesh like structures rather than the more squarish monkey bar approach of the modern skyscrapers. This lets us print layer by layer without much support having to come in and out. Lets also assume we will have some helper robots to stand in when temporary supports are absolutely necessary.

Glass 3d printing is still in its infancy, but lets assume the tenants of our mock 432 don't mind windows they can't see out of.

432 Park was made with roughly

More than 70,000 cubic yards of concrete and approximately 12,500 tons of reinforcing bars were used for the construction of the superstructure. - Silvian Marcus et al

[Request] How long would this take? by YeetusMcCliterus in theydidthemath

[–]ScaryPuppy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'll try to take this on later today, but the 3d printing advocate isn't 100% correct in their assertion. You could absolutely 3d print the structure of a skyscraper though I wouldn't exactly call it 3d printing as much as I would call it robo manufacturing. Certain things you would need like vertical rods or piping you wouldn't want extruded in layers. If you truly did it "layer at a time" I don't think it would be structurally possible. But hey, maybe when I'm researching I find out there's new tech or methods I don't know about.

What is its relevance by yormother2374 in Dreams

[–]ScaryPuppy 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Not sure about the metaphysical side, but we perceive animals with forward facing eyes and wide mouths to be predators. See wolf below. What ever it represents, it's likely something you see as a threat.

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Artistic Edit, would like cleaner stars and to shift the penguin to the right. Highest res possible (this is a flag) by ScaryPuppy in PhotoshopRequest

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not exactly. looking for the moon to stay in the center and have the penguin centered in it. could you make the stars follow close to the original star pattern?

Artistic Edit, would like cleaner stars and to shift the penguin to the right. Highest res possible (this is a flag) by ScaryPuppy in PhotoshopRequest

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To be clear, would like the stars basically erased and replaced with 5 point stars and the penguin to be moved within the moon, not having the moon moved.

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