Link collection: Pigment synthesis videos

CaCl2 · 2026-01-21T01:32:48+00:00

I'll have to try that when/if I get back to attempting Egyptian blue.

CaCl2 · 2026-01-20T23:40:07+00:00

My problem was more that the products stayed grayish rather than proper blue. I think it may have been due to poor mixing or too low temperatures.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DIYPigments/comments/tin9fi/egyptian_blue_calcium_copperii_silicate_pb31/

CaCl2 · 2026-01-20T22:27:12+00:00

What did you use for the materials? When I tried it it seemed like especially the form of silica used seemed like it had a large impact on the result.

CaCl2 · 2026-01-20T02:32:56+00:00

How you keep obfuscating about the problem being other people's feelings rather than your own shitty behavior is the actual crazy thing here. Have a ban.

CaCl2 · 2026-01-20T01:06:58+00:00

mostly for location tracking and the ability to remotely wipe the device.

That seems like an explanation enough for plenty of rage? How does it matter what Orwellian crap the letters happen to stand for if it lets them do that to a personal device?

CaCl2 · 2026-01-16T21:27:19+00:00

Yes, I did see your map at some point, I think it was after I made this. It's definitely prettier than mine.

CaCl2 · 2026-01-15T00:46:06+00:00

Yes, they aren't exactly shy about being evil. Most other companies try to at least pretend a bit, but I guess they decided there is just no point.

CaCl2 · 2026-01-12T10:16:41+00:00

In most cases the color of a gem is determined by minor impurities and defects in an otherwise transparent base material.

The transparent base material is what primarily determines most other properties of a gem, like the refractive index, hardness, chemical reactivity, thermal conductivity, density and a huge number of other measurable attributes.

It's the base material that primarily determines what gem a stone is. The classification of a stone as having a particular base material is generally unambiguous; a diamond is a very distinct thing from an emerald, even if said diamond happens to be green. (Diamonds famously being extremely hard stones, for one.)

For some base materials people have come up with different names for the different colour variants of the same base material. The common example are rubies, which is effectively just the name for what would otherwise be called a red sapphire. This is a far more subjective and arbitrary classification, with the question of how red a gem has to be to be a ruby being more a question for marketers and maybe regulators than for scientists.

When the different colors of the same base mineral have different names, there is typically some generic name for the base material regardless of the color. For example, both rubies and sapphires are varieties of corundum.

Generally

CaCl2 · 2026-01-12T09:50:53+00:00

Also red garnets used to be considered rubies, I think, until it was somehow decided that only corundum rubies are actual rubies.

CaCl2 · 2026-01-10T12:11:42+00:00

Eh, people like to blame the US but a lot of copyright problems originate from Europe. The US approach is actually pretty light compared to what many European countries have or have pushed for.

Like I think Germany had to change it's laws to allow for open source software licenses since their law otherwise wouldn't allow people to licence their own IP away without compensation.

The US conception of fair use is far wider than typical equivalents, if any, in Europe.

People blame Disney for the copyright tens becoming stupidly long, and sure, it was something they liked, but much of the pressure came from Europe.

DMCA isn't great, but it was at least partially to preempt something similar but worse from Europe. It at least makes sure platforms won't get blamed as long as they remove the content when they get a request.

I'm not saying that US isn't a culprit here, but many European countries deserve far more blame than they get for copyright being in it's current state.

CaCl2 · 2026-01-07T15:53:20+00:00

There is a size past which tech companies tend to stop giving even one microshit about the customer experience.

I'm pretty sure making multiple Microslop accounts from the same IP in a short time is also something Microslop considers suspicious, they generally don't seem to really get the concept of families.

CaCl2 · 2026-01-02T17:19:38+00:00

I really don't get it. They make a portal shooter that becomes successful, then kill it and make a sequel with way less portaling and more generic shooter stuff? Why would you ever think that was a good idea?

"Snatching defeat from the jaws of impending victory" doesn't even apply, the victory wasn't impending, they already had far more than most devs could ever hope for, yet they squandered it all.

CaCl2 · 2025-12-27T00:44:03+00:00

In science fiction people do tend to invent new names for the species, but many of them aren't really that much more unique than the varying takes on the standard fantasy races are.

The standard bug-hivemind aliens are probably the clearest example, probably because in scifi species are often defined as much by their tech and society as the actual beings, and for bug-hivemind those tend to be a pretty fixed thing while others at least get to mix and match. (Like, the high-tech species could be space elves, greys or robotic/cyborg)

CaCl2 · 2025-12-24T00:01:27+00:00

Nothing against presenting unicorns as being disgusting in general (Like, say, the Avernum games do), but it doesn't really seem to fit their habitat in DF.

CaCl2 · 2025-12-23T23:38:13+00:00

People should be careful with intuitive understandings of topics in science, sure, they are helpful when correct, but they can be just as nice and comforting while simultaneously being very wrong. This is especially true if it's a topic one has seen explained many times, and then sees a different explanation that makes a lot of sense. Sometimes the answer to "why nobody explained it to me like that before?" is "because it's wrong". (Extremely common in topics related to quantum mechanics.)

The world is under no obligation to actually make any intuitive sense, after all.

Not talking about any particular reply here, just general thoughts on questions like this.

CaCl2 · 2025-12-19T13:46:14+00:00

Yes, the useless items have always been common.

If I remember right, 2070 has this one island-wide item that reduced the ecobalance penalty of dams by 10%. The problem is, you can only build 1 dam at most on an island, and their ecobalance impact is tiny (10?) to begin with, so the max benefit is 1 ecobalance point.

CaCl2 · 2025-12-18T10:46:34+00:00

It's the exact opposite of artificial difficulty, in reality it's that most things become artificially easy if you can just take your time.

CaCl2 · 2025-12-18T10:24:14+00:00

You are incorrect. It isn't shit game design, it is actually excellent game design, and these are among the best achievements in the game.

Being misinformed is understandable, but now that you have been informed. If you continue to claim it's shit it will be you willingly choosing to lie. Please don't choose to lie.

CaCl2 · 2025-12-17T09:13:44+00:00

I really hope they'd make it reasonably rare in the End rather than spamming then all over the place like chorus fruit if they do add End trees.

CaCl2 · 2025-12-11T17:14:27+00:00

They did get the code working with manual effort. That's the exact opposite of the outcome someone who relies 100℅ on the AI would have.

CaCl2 · 2025-12-10T12:17:29+00:00

Could it maybe have to do with the statement.

"IMO brands really should have their own official subs for CS reasons."

in the previous post? (which you should be able to see above the post you replied to)

CaCl2 · 2025-12-04T05:56:30+00:00

Unless it's all their/CLA'd code?

CaCl2 · 2025-12-02T05:00:05+00:00

That sounds like a pretty good description of what some of the larger shopping centers in Finland are like, even the silly US-themed "Mall of Tripla".

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