Decommissioned the old Athlon 800MHz I had hooked up to the TV when I discovered spiders were breeding in the heat sink.
Moved its Radeon 9200 and Vortex 2 sound card to my downstairs machine to replace the Rage 128 and Santa Cruz.
Better DOS support and D3D8 here I come!
@dassauerkraut stones are flat on top so you can look into them and see the pattern created by the facets bouncing light. This design is a failure because from that position all the light falls out the bottom and there is fuck all to look at
@dassauerkraut magenta line jumps to highest in middle. That’s why the design is fucking dead until stone tilts 10 degrees off center.
Sure it sparkles but who wants a stone that is completely dead when you look straight at it.
@05ad22c7 Igen; the first picture is a randomly published daily facet design from the DVUE database together with diagram link.
Gif and graph I made using Gem Cut Studio, my preferred design software. It can model material performance to accurately show how light bounces within stone and at what angles.
Graph shows performance of the stone in terms of light return and light windowing face up, and then tilted 30 degrees up and 30 degrees left.
My TL also has videos of some designs cut in real.
Attempted to buy a parcel of emerald rough from a supplier in Central Asia.
They will only accept payment in Chinese yuan. That’s new.
Belt and Road is bearing fruit.
@f47c4255 The fucking Farmer’s Almanac with their astrology and dowsing sticks does a better job of predicting weather than scientists even as little as one year out.
I’m hearing a lot of people complaining about how America pays its refugees more than it pays retirees who have “paid into the system” their whole life.
The average refugee is a fighting age male with no loyalty to the country.
The average retiree is broken, with no group identity, no ability to organize, and no other options.
You thought they are paying people as a reward for service to the nation.
They are paying people to mollify them in proportion to the trouble they might create.
@Hoss “Cyber Santa” Delgado They thought the AI would replace the stonecutters and bricklayers.
Little did they realize making changes in physical reality is FAR MORE COMPLICATED to engineer than just rewriting a press release without touching a single physical button.
Only too late did they realize it’s artificial intelligence, not artificial labor.
Just had a one-way watch show up on my bench.
Yes, someone is now making watches at the $45 price point that *cannot* be opened by any tools.
There is nowhere to pop it. Nowhere to unscrew it. Nowhere to clamp it. And if you actually get it open, edge to edge glass means you can't put it in a jig to close it again.
You would have to heat the back with a torch to melt the gasket and glue it back in place.
It almost sounds like an Apple product.
@Hoss “Cyber Santa” Delgado@Leaf Lord@gray They still have a lot of the Susan B Anthony ones in there. I get dollar rolls and $2s for my register to force them out into circulation.
@gray@Leaf Lord@Hoss “Cyber Santa” Delgado Dimes and quarters cost about the same. Pennies are $250 a box but not worth much unless you have a customer to sell the Indian heads to.
@d4f294ac Sheet silver and bezel wire formed to the edges of the coins.
Nobody pays enough to make chain. For something like curb chain I just buy it by the centimeter and cut/weld it as needed.
@dassauerkraut Oh man. We have some crazy tricks. From irradiating topaz to change its color to heating sapphires to melt the rutile crystal inside the sapphire and improve clarity.
Emeralds are worst. They are almost all full of cracks. Routine treatment is putting them in a dish of cedar oil and using a vacuum chamber to force it into the stone.
This is why you should never wash dishes with an emerald ring: the detergent pulls the oil out of the stone and fucks it.
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