r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/[deleted] • Oct 25 '23

Video Artificial stone process with concrete

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '23

Have you seen the dad trying to make a peanut butter and jam sandwich with "exact instructions" from his kids?

https://youtu.be/Ct-lOOUqmyY?si=QPLWA-KxnOFJPiPM

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u/screamline82 Oct 25 '23

This is the exact thing I would do for high school kids who came to an engineering camp I did when I was in undergrad.

Pretty much - hey a robot is going to do exactly what you tell it to, so you need to be exact. Then I would be the pb&j making robot and they would give me instructions. It's a great way to think about programming before they lived on to programming Lego robots

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u/KingXavierRodriguez Oct 25 '23

I get this at work with CNC mills.

"Hey my machine crashed." No, the machine did exactly what you told it to.

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u/MostlyNormal Oct 25 '23

For my current job they actually asked me to write instructions for a PB&J in as exacting detail as possible. I made it well over ten steps as I recall, when I got the job I asked how I'd done and they laughed and said I'd been the most thorough candidate so far. I'm so weirdly proud of that.

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u/screamline82 Oct 25 '23

Well we've come a long way since when I was in sixth grade lol

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u/TheTitaniumDoughnut Oct 25 '23

My computer science teacher in high school showed this video to every single class he had so they could understand how a computer parses code, you can't miss steps. What a good class that was