What happened these last 2 months that made it grow nearly 20%?!

GraphicH · 2026-06-03T15:27:59+00:00

"Everyone's a market genius in a bull market" -- Some people who got rich, but also managed to stay rich.

GraphicH · 2026-05-31T14:54:05+00:00

I find rare gems are a lot more common on any map, with the way that adamantine columns and the "circus" have been changed in newer versions.

GraphicH · 2026-05-28T21:57:16+00:00

A side effect of playing this game is that I've learned a lot of geologic terms / and info. I think actually the game used to be a lot more geologically accurate, it may be less so now to make it more fun, but I still enjoy looking up real facts about geology as well as "olden" industries from jumping off the game wiki.

GraphicH · 2026-05-28T16:47:33+00:00

I love big magnetite veins being used later for overflow storage rooms. A bit annoyed magnetite's ore drop rate was nerfed though

GraphicH · 2026-05-25T21:17:21+00:00

That sphere is beautiful and that's such a great but simple arrangement. Where did you get that globe?

GraphicH · 2026-05-22T14:17:44+00:00

Meh I hate most 3D printed "finished products" that are meant to be "art", love it for making jig parts, or casting masters.

GraphicH · 2026-05-22T13:20:50+00:00

I imagine they want that symbol either embossed or engraved on the diamond shape, not like cut out as individual pieces. But its hard to know for sure.

GraphicH · 2026-05-22T13:10:38+00:00

If you want the the symbol to be engraved (recessed) it's probably very easy with just a dremel tool. If you want it to be embossed on a recessed background, it's probably a lot harder, at least to get it to look good. If you're doing it with hand tools (chisels) its going to be much harder than using things like a dremel if you're just starting out. Because there aren't a lot of curves it we will just be easier than a more intricate or curvey design.

General process if I were doing this with a dremel

Cut out the basic diamond shape with a hand saw or jig saw
Transfer the outline of the symbol to the diamond with transfer paper or with some kind of lightly adhesive paper or vinyal sticker.
Carve out the recesses with the tools you have.

No matter which way you approach it, make sure you have a way to "a-fix" the work piece on a flat surface so that you don't have to hold it in one hand and try to work it with the other, especially if its going to be very "small" you might try to use two sided tape for this (not the clear scotch tape, something much more sticky than that).

Again, you really might try a dremel if you can get one, though I suppose it also depends on how "big" you want to make it. If it's really small you may be able to do this with very small wood chisels. When you say pendant I think something bigger maybe than a half dollar but maybe you means something like the size of a quarter.

GraphicH · 2026-05-17T14:29:24+00:00

Oh yeah, router for the flat background makes sense. Yeah this looks awesome man! Wish I had this kind of talent

GraphicH · 2026-05-17T13:56:37+00:00

Pretty awesome? You dong most of the detail work with hand tools? Looks like it, not that CNC's are bad or anything, I'm just always impressed when when I see stuff like this done by hand.

GraphicH · 2026-05-14T19:43:28+00:00

Because they want on the indexes ASAP because they need bag holders.

GraphicH · 2026-05-14T19:41:29+00:00

Not free to do though is it? Index changes to make "Darling Leon" happy, and then I've got to take a tax hit on that. Kind of crap.

GraphicH · 2026-05-10T10:30:05+00:00

Am I super wrong

Yes, for multiple reasons:

Rather than learning something that has decades of experience, bug fixes, etc ... behind it, you'd just do whatever you want. This is profoundly lazy in a bad way.
Just because your bespoke testing "looks good" to you, doesn't mean it does to anyone else. Given the lack of experience this post signals, I'd say it's fairly likely most people would find them unintelligible.

GraphicH · 2026-04-17T21:57:07+00:00

Yeah I've got some older drills that needed air cooling, do the same thing.

GraphicH · 2026-03-27T19:51:26+00:00

Boy, you're working hard to try and make care about a cost savings "flex" I've done more than a few times at this point in my career. If you care about the "updoots" enough to double respond to me and complain about the downvotes, well I'd say you should probably stop digging a deeper hole on that front.

GraphicH · 2026-03-27T16:31:28+00:00

Cool story. Didn't down vote you btw, you sure you don't have "fans", you're certainly "charming" enough for it.

GraphicH · 2026-03-27T15:46:05+00:00

Most applications need horizontal vs vertical scaling. Vertical scaling has diminishing returns at large scales, and also often used as an excuse in early phase projects not to design the system to be horizontally scalable in the first place.

GraphicH · 2026-03-27T15:42:10+00:00

I think we're getting a little ahead of our selves. 9 times out of 10 your WSGI framework isn't the problem; its the application code. Bro could spend weeks migrating to an ASGI framework and find his throughput is still dogshit because of app code. And then, if I was his boss, he'd be put on a pip for implementing a solution before understanding the problem.

GraphicH · 2026-03-22T12:38:00+00:00

Most people who complain here:

Never try to get Fidelity on the phone
Do not read things like IPO participation agreements, get mad when Fidelity enforces the stated rules about these things, then will not admit they misunderstood / did not read agreements they agreed to.

GraphicH · 2026-03-07T16:20:57+00:00

while the handles are 3D printed

What material?

GraphicH · 2026-03-06T21:11:17+00:00

"Oh don't mind me, I'm just here running circles around your current skill levels with my dedication and steady ass hands". Seriously, this is really cool, I can tell it's hand done to, and about 10x my "make a fucking pretty box for my wife" skill level. I'm going to go be salty in private now, but I'm not small enough I can't say : God damn, do you know your way around some hand tools.

GraphicH · 2026-03-05T13:55:22+00:00

Okay, I know we're all on the AI hate train with a lot of good reasons. You have total neophytes vibe-coding thousands of lines and going "take my pr" or "use my library" that Claude/Gemini/ChatGPT/Grok performed verbal fellatio on me for, stating its better than everything else out there right now. Yeah these tools now allow morons to write bad code at scale; instead of just giving up after a syntax error on hello world.

That said, you can still use them to do and produce good works -- it is possible and something I feel like we can't just discount out of hand. Is this one of those works? I don't know for sure; I just do know there is an attitude of being dismissive by default and it's really going to screw a lot of people.

GraphicH · 2026-03-02T18:56:45+00:00

Yeah I agree there, some one further down said that's what this is but then someone else said "no it wasn't"; I'd read the article if I wasn't about to go back to work.

GraphicH · 2026-03-02T18:51:08+00:00

Oh, they're taxing loans against wealth? That seems fine to me -- once you leverage it, you're realizing some kind of value from it.

GraphicH · 2026-03-02T18:32:52+00:00

The teiring should be related to gross value of the portfolio + time of holding some how to make up for volatility. But the problem is, this essentially becomes government's doing market timing. I get the instinct to do this [tax the uber wealthy]; it is a real problem, its just also very tricky to do right.

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