I am a bit of a checklist nerd, so I wrote a web app do to checklists: https://checkoff.ai
As it is fashionable these days, it can create checklists with AI ("Fun things to do in Pittsburg"), you can create checklists from templates (some stuff you do every day), etc.
I also have an MCP server that allows you to plug it into your favorite LLM.
Fun fact: you can visit his cave in Ward Pound Ridge Reservation, Westchester county. Interesting place. Not many people around. You can sit in the cave and try to imagine the life he lived.
"What I find funny about cos() and sin()— and also why I think there is confusion around them — is the many ways we can describe them. We don’t have to look too hard. A quick glance at this Wikipedia page has an eye-watering number of super nuanced definitions."
I don't even know how to begin parsing this sentence.
If, after Russia attacked Georgia and Ukraine in Crimea and Donbas, Germany has decided to team up and provide Russia with a steady stream of cash in exchange for gas, it's on Germany. It can't go all surprised Pickachu when the pipeline suddenly blows up.
"Georgia started war with Russia: EU-backed report.
An independent report blamed Georgia on Wednesday for starting last year's five-day war with Russia, but said Moscow's military response went beyond reasonable limits and violated international law." [0]
The Russian exercise was named Caucasus 2008 and units of the North Caucasus Military District, including the 58th Army, took part. The exercise included training to aid peacekeeping forces stationed in Abkhazia and South Ossetia.[135] During exercises, a pamphlet named "Soldier! Know your probable enemy!" was circulated among the Russian soldiers. The pamphlet described the Georgian Armed Forces.[136] Russian troops stayed near the border with Georgia after the end of their exercise on 2 August, instead of going back to their barracks.[113] Later, Dale Herspring, an expert on Russian military affairs at Kansas State University, described the Russian exercise as "exactly what they executed in Georgia just a few weeks later [...] a complete dress rehearsal."[134]
Ukraine indirectly funds Russia by buying diesel from India who bought it from Russia. Maybe they should start with cutting off themselves before going after allies.
Blowing up a pipeline in a war isn't violence, it's warfare, and thus IMHO Ukraine had every right to destroy a piece of infrastructure that could be used as political leverage and source of income for its invaders.
To be fair, non-Tesla networks are catching up. I moved from Tesla to BMW i4 (I had a quite significant disagreement with Elon when it comes to international politics), and I was worried about finding non-Tesla charges. I took a few long distance trips so far (US Northeast), and I had zero problems. Plus, if you are lucky, you get 2 year free charging from BMW, and they've enabled plug-and-charge recently. So, you just plugin, charge and drive away, mostly for free. Not bad.
It provides context. The post was a bare claim without context or evidence, But a poster without any history.
I'd say if you post an accusative claim on a controversial topic as your first post with a new account, it should probably include far more information.
I agree that the context is important. However, there is still a problem here:
- The user name already shows in green, which means a new account. Thus, your comment does not give any additional context.
- If your goal is to provide context, I'm sure you do not fail to provide it when an account with a long history and a tons of karma makes a comment that goes contrary to what you want to believe, right?
I didn't know that. The shade is so slight I couldn't tell.
> I'm sure you do not fail to provide it when an account with a long history and a tons of karma makes a comment that goes contrary to what you want to believe
Why would that be necessary? They wouldn't be "throwaway" in that case.
"While this may have been a motivating factor to some at Kodak, such concerns did not stop Kodak — or even Sasson — from further developing digital cameras and making several technical developments that led to Kodak's first publicly available digital camera in 1991, the Digital Camera System."
I think this argument suffers from the same problem as many arguments of similar kind. It goes like this: if A then B. If B then C. If C then D. It all makes sense. Every single one of these steps makes sense. Except, if you have a chain with five steps and every one of them has a 90% likelihood, the whole chain has only 60% likelihood. And it’s probably less the 90% for each step, in reality. So, you can come up with an entirely plausible reasoning chain, where each step is highly likely to come true, and yet be completely wrong with your overall conclusion.
Why is 90% for each step such an insurmountable probability?
Maybe it's completely unreasonable for you to assume the causation for each step isn't on the order of 99%. Your argument is too abstract to be a relevant rebuttal.
It’s a generic argument that can be applied to a whole class of claims. I see smart people falling into this trap all the time. Someone is making a claim by presenting a series of steps that seem quite reasonable. You then are left in a position where you can either: a) accept the overall conclusion, or b) attack the individual reasoning steps. All I’m doing is pointing out a possibility that your reasoning steps can be entirely plausible while your conclusion is completely wrong.
Anecdotal evidence: I found that it's super easy to eat way more than you should by just having some food laying around. And I don't mean just Cheetos - "healthy" food will set you back rather quickly as well. The amount of exercise doesn't matter that much - with the calorie density of common snacks, you will out-eat your exercise really fast. I don't think I'm that bad in that sense, but until I started keeping a track of what I eat and the count the calories, nothing worked. Yes it's a hassle, but I vibe-coded an app that does image analysis and tracks your calories. Shameless plug: HeartLens on app store, https://apps.apple.com/us/app/heartlens-your-health-tracker/...
Totally the case for me too. I used to keep lots of different snacks stocked at home. Eliminating that (except for a few things in small quantities) has been great for weight maintenance for me. At this point there are more treats for our cats in the house than snacks for me.
As it is fashionable these days, it can create checklists with AI ("Fun things to do in Pittsburg"), you can create checklists from templates (some stuff you do every day), etc.
I also have an MCP server that allows you to plug it into your favorite LLM.