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aldomilyar
1d ago
Oh I'm married and with child now, having finally struck gold with the 60th but I did a ton of field anthropology along the way.
I live in a majorish metro, managed to work my way up from a 5/10 to like a 7/10 through weight loss + trial & error and essentially didn't turn down a first date with anybody who was open to get a coffee and not obviously a hard no.
OracleOutlook
Fiat justitia ruat caelum
1d ago
If a woman is downloading an app, she's saying, "No guy in real life wants me." Or, "I don't care about being loved, I just want to fuck."
Women want to have a man fall for them naturally, just by being in her presence. Going on a dating app is admitting defeat.
erwgv3g34
1d ago
This, but unironically.
(It's been noted that talking to a therapist about your problems is just the modern version of going to a priest to talk about your sins, but at least the priest doesn't ask to see your insurance).
OracleOutlook
Fiat justitia ruat caelum
1d ago
As a woman, it's hard to figure out who his "incest, cannibalism and John 3:16" blub is attracting. Finn looks pretty average, kind of douchy.
My advice in general would be for guys to take photos from below, girls take photos from above, maybe seek a professional photographer if it's that important.
Post repo, if gpt's solution doesn't work. Might take a stab at it when I have a moment.
Edit: oops, didn't see your edits when posting.
TheAntipopulist
Formerly Ben___Garrison
1d ago
They're smuggling because they have a chip shortage, and the smuggling isn't meeting all their needs.
Quantumfreakonomics
1d ago
I had about 60 first dates in 2022
Uh, what? Are we even talking about the same concept at this point? How does one both have the opportunity to go on 60 first dates in a year and also none of them go well enough to terminate the process? Is this some poly thing?
WhiningCoil
1d ago
Well, more problems on my chairs.
Some fucking how I cut the stretchers an inch short. Which required me to buy more walnut. Good news, the lumber yard was having a memorial day cook out, and I got to stuff myself with free cheeseburgers before I made my purchase.
So anyways, I got the stretchers remade to the proper length this time. Cut the angled tenons in them which was new for me. Added another mortising guide to my leg making jig to put the mortises for them into the back legs. Things are back on track. I have 6 more mortises to clean up by hand, and after that all the mortises and tenons are done.
Next up are the seats which I think I'll do with a template again. Then comes sanding, finishing and assembly.
That was what jumped out at me, too. Frankly it makes me think that I really ought to try Tinder again with some better photos, if this is all it takes.
Homies: Ride or Die the 3d game.
Hacking away at stuff. Make is missing .hpp file changes, probably something about generating the .d files properly via clang.
Aside from that I added proper bounds checking to the racetrack by constructing a bunch of quadrilaterals to paper over it and simply iterating them and asking "is car inside quad?" and rejecting forward vector if it is not found in any. Can change this to a quadtree once I'm confident this is the right approach.
But weirdly the starting point where I spawn the car (700, 0, 0) doesn't fall inside of any quad even though I'm creating the quads procedurally and they should be sharing neighboring line segments. Wondering if this is some floating point precision issue creating some subtle gaps.
EDIT: I pasted the 1500 quadrilateral coordinates into ChatGPT and said why doesn't 700, 0, 0 lie inside of any of these and it responded that it's probably because it sits exactly on the edge of one line and my bounds checking is not inclusive of the actual boundary line itself. E.g. that sits exactly on the edge of one of the quads and my comparison function may be excluding that. Plausible!
EDIT2: yeah, that was it. I had this
bool Quad::is_point_inside_xz(const bx::Vec3& pos) const {
const auto sign = [](const bx::Vec3& a, const bx::Vec3& b,
const bx::Vec3& c) {
return (b.x - a.x) * (c.z - a.z) - (b.z - a.z) * (c.x - a.x);
};
bool b1 = sign(pos, p0, p1) >= 0;
bool b2 = sign(pos, p1, p2) >= 0;
bool b3 = sign(pos, p2, p3) >= 0;
bool b4 = sign(pos, p3, p0) >= 0;
bool result = (b1 == b2) && (b2 == b3) && (b3 == b4);
return result;
}
and ChatGPT o3 told me to try this. Basically using an epsilon value to check for float equality than exact because of precision, and also being more tolerant to point ordering, I'm not sure I'm definitely doing it clockwise in all cases.
This works!
bool Quad::is_point_inside_xz(const bx::Vec3& pos) const {
// 2-D cross product (signed area *2) in the X-Z plane
auto cross = [](const bx::Vec3& a, const bx::Vec3& b,
const bx::Vec3& c) -> float {
return (b.x - a.x) * (c.z - a.z) - (b.z - a.z) * (c.x - a.x);
};
constexpr float EPS = 1e-6f; // tolerance for “on the edge”
// Determine polygon orientation (+1 = CCW, −1 = CW)
// Any non-degenerate triple works; p0-p1-p2 is simplest.
float orient_sign = (cross(p0, p1, p2) >= 0.0f) ? 1.0f : -1.0f;
auto same_side = [orient_sign](float v) // interior ⇒ v*orient ≥ 0
{
return v * orient_sign >= -EPS; // accept 0 within EPS
};
// Point must be on the “same side” of every edge.
// Use edges p0→p1, p1→p2, p2→p3, p3→p0.
return same_side(cross(p0, p1, pos)) && same_side(cross(p1, p2, pos)) &&
same_side(cross(p2, p3, pos)) && same_side(cross(p3, p0, pos));
}
What am I even doing here. Feels like I'm one of those people playing chess still even though computers totally crush humans at it.
I mean, not really though. I had Claude Code write a lot of boilerplate for me w.r.t. get to triangle but it mostly produced buggy shader code and I had to sit down and think pretty hard a lot of the time. Even the model loading code was buggy and model files are pretty standard.
Pulpachair
1d ago
Billion dollar idea - rent-a-yenta. A service where an overly critical older woman follows around the timid marriageable types and needles them constantly about their relationship status, frequently trying to set them up with their neighbor or cousin’s kid until finally something clicks and they find a suitable match.
I'm pretty sure that the vast majority of The Motte posters are well aware of the enormous variation in men's attractiveness to women. It's not like it's some secret knowledge that is only available in obscure corners of the dark web.
dr_analog
razorboy
1d ago
Helmet that I think looks better in matte black. Not final layout.
aldomilyar
1d ago
Right to spousal support started because, in the ideal world of "women do not work outside the home", once divorced a woman had little to no chance of income of her own. If you threw her out for a newer model, it was considered only fair to save her from ending up on the streets until she got a job or married again.
"The idle parent" shows your lack of comprehension of how a household works.
Yeah but the game has changed on both fronts. Incomes are more equitable between genders, and whilst domestic duties are still difficult the average Divorcee isn't an Irish Catholic Mother of 14 that needs to wash and darn the socks by hand. I think there's a potential middleground between the two approaches in which it is possible to acknowledge marriage as a partnership, whilst still feeling that divorce settlements far, far, far beyond the amount it'd take to literally retire and have a comfortable rest of life are a bit outlandish.
dr_analog
razorboy
1d ago
Tron bike helmet update.
Waiting for parts from Aliexpress still, but did a mock-up of LED strips on my bike helmet. Looked like crap, figured it was because the helmet was silver and black and draping LED strips over it had too much visual noise. Bought a matte black bike helmet and tried the strips and it looks significantly better, I think. Though I think this helmet will require more cuts to actually line the LED strips up along the solid parts and not cross the vents.
Helmet that I think looks wack attached: /images/17483641109905748.webp
Owlify
1d ago
I would also like to note that from the recent discourse about marriage in Mormons/religious groups, it was pointed out that the men are a lot more social and very regularly go to non-romantic social events where they get to know the women in their community (and the women get to know the men).
Grant_us_eyes
1d ago
Operating under the assumption that all 50 are somehow equally interested in me for some inexplicable reason, I'd work on narrowing them down to find the one that's most compatible with me in terms of personality, outlook and life goals.
And then marry her.
This assumes that I'm actually aware of your theoretical scenario. Otherwise, I'd probably come to the conclusion that they're just being nice, and nothing would come from it.
Quantumfreakonomics
1d ago
This may be a thing that happens, but it cannot explain the effect.
To be absolutely clear, what needs to be explained is the anomalous predominance of men on dating apps (and in the dating pool more broadly) when a naive gender-symmetrical model of monogamous pair-bonding would imply equal prevalence of men and women in such spaces when the population sex ratio is 1:1.
Pointing to the existence of even a large number of male-female pairings does not help explain the discrepancy because such pairings (should) remove one woman and one man from the dating pool, leaving the absolute discrepancy unchanged.
gattsuru
1d ago
Yes, there's a lot of ways to square the circle; I've given similar answers (albeit with self-defense and necessity prongs) when Trace chased me down in DMs back on reddit to test my principles against Arthur Chu (yes, really).
But Trace denied that, at length, both in DM and publicly, and his rule got them to TheSchism today. Nor does some other part of the Blue Tribe have a well-established principle that they're holding here, that applies to both their side and their enemies in a wide variety of cases. It's the existence of the norm, not the possibility of one, that's the issue.
self_made_human
Kai su, teknon?
1d ago
I agree wholeheartedly, albeit in 2 entirely different countries.
Casual sex is a luxury. And that's been true for the entirety of human history. Short of prostitution, courting a partner/paying the bride price was the only way to get your willie wet for the overwhelming majority of men.
The fact that norms have changed, and a small fraction of men are able to avail of it.. Well, that naturally emboldens everyone else. Yet, a longer relationship (that includes sex) is both easier to achieve for the average man, and often more fulfilling. But everyone dreams of driving a Lambo on a Lada budget, and here 'tis the same.
aldomilyar
1d ago
I remember a few years ago that putting 'conservative' on your Hinge Profile was literally a death knell for matches.
jkf
1d ago
"Just trust me, bro" would at least have some meat to talk about in that the user might be expected to back up his opinions-- "just trust this LLM output" is intensely weak.
aldomilyar
1d ago
Bars and clubs have kind of died as a place for 'average people to unwind', especially past University age. There's simply too much competition from other entertainment mediums, atleast in my experience. A certain subset of extroverted nightlife enjoyooors rotate around between eachother visibly, but as a subset of the population I believe it's smaller than it has been historically.
Yeah, I can't imagine who sees that line and thinks "exactly my type!" though there may be matches from girls just looking for some fun but nothing serious. Nikola, for instance: that would be fun if intense but short experience, but definitely not long-term boyfriend material, much less husband. Much too aware of how good he looks and poses like a romance cover model. He'd be kissing your hand and handing over a bouquet of thirteen red roses while at the same time setting up a date with six other women for the rest of the week 😁
Niko seems like a nice young man but he badly needs advice on "not a polo neck with a blazer with jeans, dear, and clear the paper bags off the table before taking the photo, and don't smile so hard, you look nervous not relaxed".
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