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Spring is in the air, and someone presenting themselves as interested in fucking rationalist males has authored a piece about how said men can dress a bit better and maybe, just maybe, get laid:

lesswrong.com/…/basic-principles-for-dressing-bet…

as usual, the real comedy is in the comments

  • I dress like a schlub specifically to avoid advertising my sexual availability - lesswrong.com/…/basic-principles-for-dressing-bet…
  • “The item that I currently wear that expresses the most about me is my Oura ring followed by barefoot shoes.” - strangely not the same as the commenter above
  • "When it comes to slim fit jeans I have the impression that fashion changed. Five years ago they were seen as great and now they don’t? Is that accurate?“
  • “Overall, I think it makes the most sense to go to the pareto frontier here. You can spend 300-400 total getting some nice looking earth tone button-ups, well-fitting pants that aren’t blue jeans, trim your beard, get regular haircuts from an actual salon, shower daily, and make sure you smell decent.”
  • ”[…] when I look at the examples, what occurs to me is that dressing like the example would cause me to stick out and make it obvious to others I am making a special effort, and I’d rather not do that."
  • “I was hoping for more fashion theory; the why. “
  • “It is fascinating to receive such communiqués of strange news from another star. I would not know, without your saying so, that the set of 10 pictures are intended to be good examples and not bad examples.”
  • ”[…] it is far more important that whatever my spouse wears be a pleasant texture to put my face on, most buttondown material fails this criterion but linen passes” - actually this is just cute
Basic principles for dressing better. — LessWrong

I've been a toe-in rat and existed on the outskirts of the social scene for approaching a decade now, and I can confidently say (with love) that rati…

I’m sure he’ll enjoy being deported back to la République populaire démocratique de Quebec and spending a short time in the reeducations camps before being set to work installing solar panels
can’t wait for the inevitable livestreamed freakout/cannibalism scene
xheet is deleted, was is Beff Jezoz who wrote that? background? though he was as American as apple piethe Ku Klux Klan

depressing datapoint, this comment was downvoted to the point where it was auto-collapsed yesterday, today it’s “only” on -2

lesswrong.com/…/women-should-be-able-to-open-thin…

Women should be able to open things — LessWrong

Comment by xpym - Nobody is allowed to care. The notion that the average female is in any way inferior to the average male is one of the strongest taboos of "polite society".

Here’s Florida settling for almost half a million Ameros for firing someone for posting on a private Instagram that Kirk was a giant douche who got what was coming to him (paraphrased)

aclufl.org/…/civil-rights-lawyers-secure-485000-s…

Civil Rights Lawyers Secure $485,000 Settlement for FWC Biologist Fired Over Charlie Kirk Social Media Post - ACLU of Florida

Brittney Brown Vindicated After State Terminated Her Employment for Constitutionally Protected Speech on Private Instagram Account

ACLU of Florida

several other people have commented on the tone, and I believe it’s just because it’s massaged to be more marketing-ly

same with the local LLM crap, it’s to appeal to investors

I have seen nerds be mad at them for using Discord and GitHub too, some people are really hard to please

doubt this will ever see the light of day anyway

A LWer of the female persuasion makes the entirely reasonable point that most screw-top openings are probably constructed by looking at median male grip strength, not female. But the real fun is in the comments, where people who can post comments on a blog are seemingly unfamiliar with opening jam jars.

Women should be able to open things

Women should be able to open things — LessWrong

Comment by xpym - Nobody is allowed to care. The notion that the average female is in any way inferior to the average male is one of the strongest taboos of "polite society".

Was my $48K GPU server worth it?

In 2024 I quit my FAANG job to become an independent researcher. To do this I needed GPUs, so I built “grumbl”, a 6x 6000 Ada GPU server. This blog describes the build, some of the issu…

Rosmine ML Blog

It’s not a typical umlaut, (we have those in Swedish too), it’s like 2 sharp bunny ears

edit LOL it’s literally “double acute accent” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_acute_accent#Unicode

name in Hungarian: Erdős Pál

Apparently Hungarian has 4 different Os: O, Ó, Ö, Ő

Double acute accent - Wikipedia