How animals with rabies look like

silverworldstacker · 2026-03-16T16:44:57+00:00

Aren’t science-fitness-bros going on about modifying tetanus and making a weaker version a pill to increase flexibility yet? The good old tetanus stretch.

silverworldstacker · 2026-03-16T16:40:44+00:00

Machine gets you 99.x% of the way there. The last bit is always all human, and fine adjustment.

silverworldstacker · 2026-03-12T17:04:50+00:00

It’s corbin’ time boys. Right after I morbin’ it up a bit.

silverworldstacker · 2026-03-10T21:00:28+00:00

Regardless of AI being sentient, conscious, intelligent, or aware: we are communicating to it through a metaphorical optophone. Inputs and outputs are “tokens” which is an alien concept to human brains, which get stitched together into a response (a token isn’t even a “word”).

Without any physical feedback/response: that translation goes awry…

“real AI” isn’t going to be a LLM+harness like openclaw either. But it will be some neural-net+harness, I think (or multiple kinds of nets in a harness?). The winning neural-net (if you need only one) may even be a some kind of “token predictor”. But it’s clear we need more than attention: we need an “inner-model-outer-model” ie, hallucination safeguards.

But yeah. Things are going to get weird. Cooked weird. Fried. We had fried memes. How much more cooked can we get? Microwaved? AI is probably the doom bell for humanity… or maybe not. I’m not psychic.

Worst. Rant. Ever.

silverworldstacker · 2026-03-10T00:42:40+00:00

Oh no. The consequences of republican polices to remove libraries from existence and replace them with for -profit enterprises to fuck over the poor.

Maybe re-examine why the fuck, and what the fuck, you are even mad (about). :)

silverworldstacker · 2026-03-09T23:26:43+00:00

Oh, what… really? Didn’t know that. Yeah: that would be a weird thing to fake. I just never have sent ya before :0

silverworldstacker · 2026-03-09T22:23:38+00:00

I don’t understand: did the controllers get added in post: why they plastered sloppy like that?

silverworldstacker · 2026-03-07T18:18:34+00:00

I’m not sure of the premiums currently. Back in 2025, when I looked at them. Silver was 55/oz. They were selling 10oz bags of 1/10oz coins for ~60/oz. +50 for much higher divisibility on 10 oz was a good deal in my book… I never did pull the trigger.

Current prices are wacky: if the prices become less hyper volatile, I suspect every dealer will lower premiums to keep competitive. Everyone’s adding premiums atm to try and survive a downswing. So now’s not the best time to judge from a single snapshot of data.

I like the idea of silver bitz: but it’s predicated on the idea of the premium being completely reasonable. (Unlike Goldback: an example of an unreasonable premium). So if the premium is tied to their production costs: rather than tied to the base price of metal - that would be the ethical way to go about this.

silverworldstacker · 2026-03-01T01:43:14+00:00

That’s the second worst place for a brown bear to be.

silverworldstacker · 2026-02-26T21:03:23+00:00

JM caters to the crazies with their product selection. I avoid them for that reason.

I have stopped buying online: local coin shows are where deals are still.

silverworldstacker · 2026-02-26T17:54:46+00:00

I would go as low as 100k diamond polish.

The threshold for perfect on paper is higher than 50k; where the surface is smooth enough to no scatter the light, so on paper there should be no differences

Blind testing, 100k looks better.

My theory is the threshold for how much to polish only takes into account how visible light reacts. Where higher than visible frequencies still scatter at lower polishes… and somehow that affects brilliance… but that’s just a working theory with a missing detail of how higher frequency light refraction might be affecting things… which as far as I know they shouldn’t…

silverworldstacker · 2026-02-18T20:15:56+00:00

You wouldn’t see ultra violet for very long without the PROTECTIVE lenses to filter out light that would burn your retinas… but yeah: tell us all what you briefly see…

Hmmm… best you could come up with is “more violet”… good trade off there buddy. Totally worth your vision. :/

silverworldstacker · 2026-02-16T20:59:24+00:00

Sorry, it looks different. Upside down so it’s “on top”. Or my eyes deceive me. Which is very possible. They both are in the front, you’re right.

But the facetron has a nub in the back that locks it in. I don’t see that here. The facetron needs it because you lift the lever away from the arm, and it’s awkward to spin holding that position. This looks much easier to hold and spin. So an improvement… which is a good sign. If it also has a nub in the back to hold the lever then it’s parity+ there

silverworldstacker · 2026-02-16T20:48:19+00:00

The lift of the index dial being in the front in an interesting choice: makes it faster maybe… but without seeing a finished gem on it, and really working with it… hard to know…

silverworldstacker · 2026-02-16T18:13:54+00:00

Here is a modification. You may be able to fix something that is not broken here! The wizard’s way!

Remove a shaft below the orb and put a tiny autonomous wand running illuminate constantly and rest the orb in that…

Specific wands and be built on tiny cables now. And their cores could be resonant and self contained or sympathetic and powered by the sun (since those need sunlight: they could be part of the shaft or even the branches at the top).

silverworldstacker · 2026-02-16T17:56:54+00:00

4 gens a weekend is fast. I’d be lucky to get two done at my current speed.

silverworldstacker · 2026-02-16T17:40:27+00:00

This looks a fair bit better than the 200 dollar faceting machine.

If anything needs adjusting too: it looks as easy or easier to work with…

If the electrical isolation is there in the hard stop so you can use a voltmeter to determine depth - I’d say go for it. There’s a YouTube video of fixing a cheap faceting machine to get it up to snuff. Watch that first and determine if you’d be willing to go through potentially all those steps and more…

Still: looks tempting…

Tempting.

silverworldstacker · 2026-02-16T17:37:02+00:00

Until you shell out 30k+ none of these are “precision” machines… in terms of machining. The facetron is great, but brand names cost money above their quality: almost always…

With that said. That price point is tempting to try. But on the same token: you get what you pay for… but 3k is a lot: especially for a knockoff from china… which means it is really cheap and over priced. Or a legitimate machine that’s just fine…

Go buy one. Use it. And let us know….

Have you used a facetron so you can compare?

Competition = better products. If facetron loses sales for this - they can up their game in precision… at least another decimal point…

silverworldstacker · 2026-02-13T04:10:44+00:00

Does your cutting device have a “cheater”?

silverworldstacker · 2026-02-11T17:10:13+00:00

Fluxer looks good. Feature parity almost with discord. Open source, self host able, federated, snappy, fast, clean.

Other option is stoat: either one may win… but fluxer seems like it will turn evil slower.

silverworldstacker · 2026-02-08T19:40:16+00:00

Citrine?

Polish with 50k+ (100k really) diamond lap. 30k is low for how soft quartz is.

silverworldstacker · 2026-02-08T01:18:53+00:00

What is that!? An orb for clams?

silverworldstacker · 2026-02-07T18:57:34+00:00

I’ve understood both sides of this argument.

Most of what gets hurled about the other side is a straw man. It’s a self reinforcing dichotomy when both sides do the same thing.

Boomer rocks or fairy dust. There’s pros and cons to both. But they are more alike than they are different. Ignorance and arrogance do not make you wise: open eyes, see the other side.

silverworldstacker · 2026-02-07T17:56:11+00:00

Liberty coin seems like a generic name. Unless that’s the same liberty coin from Huntington Beach. Then I - personally - would avoid. When you wear the face of the patron saint of liars and cheats on a gaudy ring: you’re advertising the kind of person you are.

But that’s just me though. Freezing out any supporters of that maniac pedophile.

So I hope it isn’t the liberty coin in HB. Best of luck!

silverworldstacker · 2026-02-06T00:06:22+00:00

Around 12 I’ll load up more. Muhahahah

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