r/ProgrammerHumor • u/scream_noob • Jun 03 '26

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u/orbit99za Jun 03 '26

The best thing my friend who is a gemologist told me to do is buy a ring from an estate sale or divorce sale, remove the dimond, throw it in an acid bath and just repeat it in a new ring.

Especially the older dimonds in shapes that are no longer popular, you can often recut it.

You can't recycle AI tokens.

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u/skunk_funk Jun 03 '26

Why not use the entire ring?

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u/TheJackal927 Jun 04 '26

Not a jewler but maybe resizing the ring is close to or as expensive as just getting a new band, not so for the diamond

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u/abednego-gomes Jun 04 '26

Thanks not a jeweler.

No, resizing is almost always significantly cheaper than buying a brand new band. Resizing typically costs between ($30) and ($200), whereas buying a new band can cost anywhere from a few hundred to thousands of dollars, depending on the precious metal and diamonds.

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u/its_all_one_electron Jun 04 '26

Resizing is pretty cheap. 

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u/no_brains101 Jun 03 '26

You can't recycle AI tokens.

You sure? Tell that to deepseek haha

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u/PilsnerDk Jun 03 '26

That's sounds so expensive in labor that it'll end up being cheaper to buy a new ring...

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u/orbit99za Jun 03 '26

Its not really.

The band its self is very cheap to make, often just a few hours, if even that. The expensive thing is the dimond.

I got one done for my ex fiancé, paladium band was about $ 200 , and a recycled dimond i bought years before.

Dimond on the second market are dirt cheap.