@Joel_Walbert Yep. No surface area in contact. Just blobs of bad solder.
I like to give people quality control things to look out for.
Customers who demand better help cut out bottom feeders who are turning jewelry into something disposable instead of something you can pass down.
If you are buying jewelry, do yourself a favor and make sure anything you get set in prongs looks like the right picture and not the left.
Workmanship is in the toilet, and a lot of lazy people are doing terrible welds or trying to mask the problem with more solder.
The left picture is guaranteed to lose a prong and lose the stone.
When building prongs, you need to cut into base and insert the prong into the semicircle. More contact between the metals and less solder hiding the joint.
https://static.noagendasocial.com/media_attachments/files/111/545/955/047/810/458/original/39c45a9a749dc038.jpg
Sorry for the extra gem design post today. I had to reset my password and that broke the token. Had to run the bot one time just to make sure everything is still working.
I’ve started a project to port all my lapidary and gem cutting zines, newsletters, etc to gemtext format and wrote a simple search engine that returns results ranked by occurrence of the search term.
Not much content yet, but hoping to do a year of issues a day. It’s unfortunately hard to automate if you want any degree of quality control, but manual creation is a great chance to skim each article and make up some keywords.
gemini://brainsocks.xyz/lapidary/gemology/
@Final:z:Badguy:shrussia:@Caleb James DeLisle It’s because they didn’t use the pocketknife to do it. Anything you can somehow do with a pocketknife will be attributed to “Yankee ingenuity.”
Had three people so far today come through the shop and remind me that I need to turn off my phone and hide in the basement bomb shelter.
Surprised how far this conspiracy has spread into the general public.
Plating system wouldn't turn on. Assholes who made my unit decided to rivet it together so I couldn't see inside.
Deduced it was power supply. Ran home to find parts. Assholes who made my unit used a 1.8" jack instead of barrel jack for the power. Built a barrel to 1.8" adapter.
Powered on unit. Began plating. Found it was slow. Raised voltage. Found it was slow. Kept working.
Solution leaked on hand. Got mild cyanide poisoning. Again. 😢
Realized universal adapter was set to 9V, not 12V. 😭
@surk...@pistolero@Machismo@Nozakero Good luck. Tencent has always been pretty evil. They ban the accounts of people who connect to the server through alternative clients.
There used to be a few implementations of QQ that worked for exchanging messages, but the actual money functions and dumb shit like QQ Show were all Windows only.
Even the Linux compatibility client Tencent produced one time after a sizable government grant wouldn't do it.
@pistolero@Machismo@Nozakero@surk... > If you produce the next shit from the ground up, people will complain that it doesn't have a web browser, so you're fucked if you're trying for consumers as a source.
This is the story of Loongson. When the 2F dropped, the government goons bankrolling Lemote via Chinese Academy of Sciences whined because it didn't have QQ and Tencent wouldn't port it.
Gotta have QQ, otherwise you can't do the important political work of paying camwhores in QQ coins.
@pistolero@Machismo@Nozakero@surk... So Zhang Fuxin was bullied into bolting on the entire X86 instruction set on a formerly MIPS3 compatible RISC chip that had its own SIMD additions. Then they forked QEMU to pass all the X86 opcodes directly through virtualization.
The result was the Loongson 3 series: dog shit CPUs that failed at being X86 and failed at the concept of RISC by having more instructions than every big instruction chip.
Retardation abounds in IT.
@9d2d61ac@bb644797 I lived in China for 15 years and never saw either a bottle of soy sauce in a refrigerator or a bottle of soy sauce with mold.
Is this a first world problem? Do you have super mold?
@surk...@pistolero@Machismo@Nozakero Even among hobbyists it's rare to find people excited to write a windowing system while bitbanging their own VGA.
I still prefer X11 and a nice startx script to Wayland.
@7f888041 I asked it to translate one sentence. It responded with a translation that was OK, followed by nine paragraphs of fanfiction expanding on the lined I wanted translated. It was inventing backstories for fictional characters and a mythos for the world behind this one line.
I was curious if it was copying and pasting from somewhere? Maybe I missed something it found through Google? But since it cannot cite references the world may never know.
@HebrideanUltraTerfHecate Yes. We used them for the flooring of our first shop if it’s the rubber backed vinyl. Was very good there because we never had to worry about gemstones shattering if a customer dropped them.
They are easy to install and provide great cushion for falling objects. But I don’t know how well they will hold up to more than 5 years of cleaning because we moved by that time.
@pistolero@Machismo@Nozakero@surk... > If you produce the next shit from the ground up, people will complain that it doesn't have a web browser, so you're fucked if you're trying for consumers as a source.
This is the story of Loongson. When the 2F dropped, the government goons bankrolling Lemote via Chinese Academy of Sciences whined because it didn't have QQ and Tencent wouldn't port it.
Gotta have QQ, otherwise you can't do the important political work of paying camwhores in QQ coins.
@dassauerkraut I've been to the jade auctions. They will wheel out a rock that's like 2x2x3 feet. They start auctioning. Then someone does the first cut of a window and it goes up again. The same rock can change hands a dozen times on the same day with those window cuts before a factory finally hauls it off.
It... gets pretty fucking crazy.
@pistolero@Machismo@Nozakero@surk... This is a great summary of why modern computing is completely fucked.
Look at Linux these days and how many layers of abstraction and constantly running services there are - to things that were already abstracted!! - because code monkeys couldn't handle ALSA, X, rc.d, and even the fucking crontab.
@79f8f754@NoHogCrankerXeno Vigilantes aren't the cure, but they are a key symptomatic indicator of a justice system that's dying of its own cancerous injustice.
@05ad22c7 Very often. Most of the videos you can find in my feed show the result of a diagram. The CAD printout itself functions as manual operator instructions for a generic faceting machine.
Here is one from a few months ago. It’s my take on the Crisantemo cut by Marco Voltolini. It uses some of the culet and frosted facet tricks I picked up studying Vietnamese cutter Phan Thanh Trung.
https://static.noagendasocial.com/media_attachments/files/111/149/436/082/065/620/original/53a12ac081aa5d23.mp4
@Alex Gleason Does it suffer from every library being included into multiple other libraries like Node? So you have nine copies of the same mail library in one project, and when you finally find the one involved in the error you get no warnings because a programmer decided to write, “// I’m not handling encrypted SMTP, just pretend it worked and don’t output. No one is ever going to use this anyway”
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