paulrudy

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by paulrudy 3mo ago
Why is a data center suing for access to 750K gallons/day of Colorado river water? https://www.kpbs.org/news/environment/2026/06/15/imperial-va...
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by paulrudy 5mo ago
I've been keeping my eye on AliasVault[1]. Open-source, self-hostable or pay for cloud hosting, handles both email aliases and passwords. I'll probably switch for password management once it has a proper security audit, and for em
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by paulrudy 10mo ago
Same story here. I'll never go back to Apple Music, even if only for streaming. I had hundreds of tracks and albums just demolished by something related to iTunes Match, didn't realize for months, and didn't have a solid back
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by paulrudy 1y ago
I've been on mailbox for 6 years and I think the only issue I've had with rejections has been the email confirmation from some Discourse-based forums. But after I contacted the hosts and was added manually, the forums' emails
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by paulrudy 1y ago
Thank you, this really clarified things for me!
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by paulrudy 1y ago
Thank you. So based on your examples it sounds like the "computation" term is quite literal. How would this apply at larger levels of complexity like interacting anonymously with a database or something like that?
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by paulrudy 1y ago
> FHE enables computation on encrypted data This is fascinating. Could someone ELI5 how computation can work using encrypted data? And does "computation" apply to ordinary internet transactions like when using a REST API, for e
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by paulrudy 2y ago
In Robert Waggoner's book, Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self, the author, who was a very skilled lucid dreamer from childhood, describes how he had a moment of insight after waking from a lucid dream. He had been thinking of hi
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by paulrudy 2y ago
"From TFA: ‘Highlights automatically surfaces directions for a location’ Is that a mistype? In an apple advertisement?" "Highlights" as a singular brand/product/whatever name. Like saying "Postmates deliv
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by paulrudy 2y ago
Since I only partly understand your comment, I'm not sure if this pertains, but the phrase "spatiotemporal encoding" caught my attention. It makes intuitive sense that complex cognitive function would be connected to spatiote
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by paulrudy 2y ago
His autobiography, And There Was Light, and a collection of talks, Against the Pollution of the I, are wonderful
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by paulrudy 2y ago
Whew. I'm sorry you had that situation to grow up in, caught up from an early age in maneuvering relative to a parent's insecurities and emotional blindness. I can relate in some ways. I hope the clarity with which you wrote about
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by paulrudy 2y ago
Good point, yeah, generally the basic survival topics are still in play even when we're busy with finer details! Still, giving an intelligent species the credit for (perhaps) engaging in the final details seems like something generous
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by paulrudy 2y ago
All of those options sound interesting and plausible, yet when I go for a walk while talking with a friend, I'm imagining an alien anthropologist wondering, "Are they communicating the ambient air temperature, and the availability
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by paulrudy 3y ago
This point of view could be applied to any word, and the extreme result is that you'd negate meaningful or useful communication, or that someone would have to be the arbiter of what is a legitimate concept or not. Between vocabulary, c
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by paulrudy 3y ago
> But calling it an unsupported belief system goes a bit far. It certainly isn't proven scientific theory. I agree it would be going too far to call it an unsupported belief system. I don't think I implied that it's unsupp
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by paulrudy 3y ago
Yes, that's true. Generally, we see that point of view as a belief, an article of faith (and of course the subject of a lot of disagreement) but we're falsely conditioned to imagine that the purely-mechanical view is free of all t
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by paulrudy 3y ago
> but I do always feel weird when I hear any living thing called effectively a thoughtless automaton. I feel very weird about this too. This de facto assumption that organisms are mechanisms first, that "higher-order" experien
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by paulrudy 3y ago
As far as I am aware, these kinds of nonlinear relationships are a feature of fractal dynamics, but I'm not a mathematician.
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by paulrudy 3y ago
When I think of isometric exercise, I think of co-contracting opposing muscle groups so that the body is exerting more effort than would be minimally necessary to maintain a posture. That kind of exertion would be antithetical to the practi
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by paulrudy 3y ago
Isometric exercise involves co-contraction of muscle groups. Taichi involves the minimal contraction of muscle to produce posture and movement, and encourages maximum availability for responsive, springy movement in every joint. If you&#x
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by paulrudy 3y ago
I'm only a fractal enthusiast, but my impression is that the key distinction that makes these fractals, or at least fractal-like, is not their detail per se, but that there is complexity at every scale. From the article: > we find i
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by paulrudy 3y ago
Love this take, and I agree. Where do you think this monorail proclivity comes from (assuming it wasn't "predetermined")? My hand-wavy first guess is an interwoven legacy of patriarchy, trauma, and power structures including
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by paulrudy 3y ago
[Wyslawa Szymborska's "Coversation With a Stone"]( https://web.archive.org/web/20201127013535/https://www.tweet... ) And also > Kick at the rock, Sam Johnson, break your bones: But cloudy
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by paulrudy 3y ago
> consciousness is an emergent phenomenon That's a theory that has yet to be tested, not a certainty. <digression> > Every atom in your brain behaves according to the laws of particle physics... These are assumptions. They
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by paulrudy 3y ago
Now how do we get something like this to work (safely) inside our bodies to remove the microplastics embedded in our tissues?
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by paulrudy 3y ago
Studies like this one https://www.sciencenews.org/article/scientists-spinal-fluid-... suggest that visual (at least, and perhaps other) stimulation increases blood flow in the brain, and the lack thereof can increase t