Viewing profile — russelldc

Yes, I rarely experience hypnagogia just before I fall asleep, and it seems like I can force it to happen if I focus on my eyelids. Though, paradoxically, as soon as I realize it's…

After speaking with enough people about this topic, I can assure you it's not just a difference of language. It's incredible what friends, family and coworkers have told me they're…

Sorry I'm not sure of the relation to antibiotics, but Hypnagogia is something even aphantasics experience. It's typically more involuntary than not, so it's grouped with dreams ra…

I don't mean to take away something so small from your great posts, but... > repetitive PTSD-like school dreams I'd really like to know how common this is. I'm now almost ten years…

I suspect you do, as well. Your realizations are very similar to mine when I first found out. > I couldn't describe a person's face to you at all, but if you asked 'do they have a …

> where I would expect it to break down would be recollection of colors... Could that not be explained by simply storing that information as "textual" data? As in: using spatial im…

> Whenever I read about this phenomenon, there doesn't seem to be a good quasi-objective metric of this subjective capability to visualize -- there's no test or questionnaire I can…

While I understand the desire to use less vague terminology, to hallucinate usually implies that it is done involuntarily. Based on your description of your abilities, have you con…

I have aphantasia, an absolute 0 on the visualization scale. Not sure about LSD, but I've had vivid open and closed-eye visuals on quite large doses of psilocybin. Even though thos…

Memory tends to be poor among folks with aphantasia, but supposedly whatever details we do actually remember may have less of a chance to have been morphed over time through re-vis…

This past weekend, I attended the conference he was interviewed at for this article. During his talk, he mentioned he had them complete the VVIQ from University of Exeter (which th…

As of 2019, you can definitely use TurboTax to report Bitcoin transactions. And if you use Coinbase, there's deeper integration there, as well.

> We have been smeared by the mainstream media [...] for working with law enforcement to ensure that justice is served for the horrible atrocity committed in Pittsburgh That's quit…

Do you have a source for that? Their website says it has a FOV of 35° x 20°.

Now that Brazil has banned asbestos, Russia is filling the market gap.

This article is about Magic Leap, not Leap Motion.

Would someone close to this project be able to explain why the node operator wouldn't have direct access to user's keys in the event of an SGX exploit? The whitepaper only briefly …

When you were 19/20, you didn't realize creating a botnet to take down competing businesses would be illegal?

That graph is many hours behind. https://fork.lol/pow/hashrate The hashrate quickly jumped back to Bitcoin after the difficulty changed.

If any government wanted to take down a CPU or GPU based cryptocurrency, they could accomplish a 51% attack in no time. Gathering or manufacturing ASICs would be a longer, harder, …

Is there any chance for Screen(or window or tab) Sharing to make it in?

The audio capture fails, then the camera gets stuck on "Check resolution 320x240" without error. If I tick "Remove Legacy WebRTC API", and retry, they all fail until it gets stuck …

I can't get many WebRTC projects/test pages to actually work on the new Safari preview. Is there anywhere they list the specific features implemented from the spec?

It's more like finding out you can shoot someone's door knob off with your gun, creating a documented process to make that easier, and hiding it from the public despite your pledge…