The article says this uses only 30% of the concrete you’d otherwise use. Presumably prefab would use more.

Seems like your client messed up the original link somehow. It works fine for me.

In Denmark it’s usually bricks (very common and traditional) or other stone like materials or concrete. Never understood why there is this difference across the world in how houses are usually built, but wood seems a very… Temporary material for something like a house? I’ve lived in buildings from the 1910s, I can’t imagine anything made of wood lasting that long.

What do you mean switching? Think this is more about using less concrete than stopping to use it entirely. That also helps, but yea it’s a problem.

Not sure about speed but I imagine it could be pretty speedy, if for no other reason than the fact that it can run with much fewer workers and probably also running during the night. I mean even if it was half as slow as manual labour, if it ran for 24 hours, it would still be faster overall.

But another point is that it uses much less material, 70% less according to the article. I suppose that helps with costs and CO2 emissions.

How much did it cost to get all the parts?

Also is there anything I can do about the heat without running the AC? I try to leave the windows open, but they’re all on one side and don’t seem to allow for much airflow that way.

Open only two windows that are as far apart as possible. Get a large fan and point it towards one of the windows (i.e. so it blows air out) at about 2 meters distance. Leave it turned on during the night to create a cold draft that goes through your apartment.

On that I agree. It’d be nice with a more universal platform.

I feel like that’s an unnecessarily narrow view of what the fediverse can be. The fediverse is not only for any single particular social networking use case, like micro-blogging (Mastodon) or forums (Lemmy, Pyfed etc). It can be much more than that, and all of it at the same time. There’s no reason why the fediverse should restrict itself to only certain social media use cases.

Not sure I understand - you think some of those things don’t belong on the fediverse? What do you mean “one or the other”?

I know we love to hate on LinkedIn, but honestly there are plenty of reasons to want social features about employers and jobs. Reviews, salary discussions, union organization and all such stuff that employees could leverage against employers, for instance.

Of course that’s not what LinkedIn is largely used for because it’s full of employers trying to brand themselves or influencers trying to make an image for themselves. But it could be different, I think.

but i assume the sheer amount of images/video takes up a lot of space

You can adjust settings in Lemmy to not store other instances media like this, so this shouldn’t be a big problem with the right config.

This is like 1 poster that should be 7 different posters.

Scenarios in gambling are rarely “purely random”. I.e. the likelyhood of winning in poker depends on what you already got dealt and what other cards got dealt and so on. What does “purely random” even mean? Like a lottery with equal chance of winning for all participants? Yea that’s gambling but just one kind of gambling.

Keep in mind that software engineering as a field is like, incredibly new, compared to a lot of other fields. Computers have not been around for that long, historically speaking.

It’s honestly to be expected that some of the first established languages did not turn out to be the best language that could be. We’re still figuring out how programming languages should be.

In 50 years, there will probably be another series of programming languages. They might even be optimised for LLM usage rather than for human directly, who knows. This stuff is all so new.

Is season 3 better than the rest? Do you need to watch the movie?

Considering coal is pure C, I can’t really imagine an alternate fuel that would change the math substantially

Yea probably within an order of magnitude or so - then again, elephants are probably within an order of magnitude of size of humans. I don’t see why elephants couldn’t eventually evolve to an intelligent civilisation, given enough time. I’d say that’s still pretty large.

But yea I mean the blue whale and the largest dinosaurs are probably about the limit of how large life can get, at least with Earth conditions.

But maybe you wouldn’t need as much fire cause bigger animals tend to hold heat better?

I thought the same thing. Then again, fire is not only needed for heat, but also for cooking food and creating new materials (metallurgy essentially). But surely a large creature could just make fires the same size as humans do if they needed to do those things? But perhaps it’d be impractical to cook food at a tiny fire hehe

Smaller I suppose, but larger? Why not? Wouldn’t you just have a really large fire?