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James Hutchison @thejameshutchison.bsky.social · 3h

Most websites don't have this level of security. Most just want you to make an account and the password / social login is strictly for authentication, not security

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James Hutchison @thejameshutchison.bsky.social · 3h

If you sign in with Google or Facebook on Heavy Resume you can skip passwords.

However, setting a password means your data is protected from me (the website owner), because the hash is used to encrypt it.

With apps data can be stored locally but that doesn't help you if you get a new phone.

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James Hutchison @thejameshutchison.bsky.social · 17h

It's not bowling

James Hutchison @thejameshutchison.bsky.social · 2d

... once in a while the energy beam from the satellite misses the dish. Oops."

So one satellite. I guess it doesn't say the type of orbit but geosynchronous seems like the only plausible one with a single satellite.

Also, "Oops" was the name of the disaster.

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James Hutchison @thejameshutchison.bsky.social · 2d

From the manual:

"Microwave power is actually solar power collected by an orbiting satellite and beamed down to a microwave collector disk. It is very efficient and produces a massive amount of power, but is very expensive to "get off the ground," and...

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James Hutchison @thejameshutchison.bsky.social · 2d

Taking investors money and probably paying themselves a big salary

Also SimCity 2000 had the microwave plant, which is different. The satellite was in geosynchronous orbit IIRC.

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James Hutchison @thejameshutchison.bsky.social · 3d

IIRC Brewers swept the Dodgers during the season. They also had some bad luck these two games. At least 4 line drives went straight to a fielder and one home run ball was 10 feet short.

Yelich needs to fix his hitting though. All I see are clear misses or choppy defensive swings.

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James Hutchison @thejameshutchison.bsky.social · 4d

Honestly, I could probably fix health care and stabilize the dollar. Doesn't seem too hard. Just need a system of feedback loops.

James Hutchison @thejameshutchison.bsky.social · 5d

Wow, lot of bad calls against the Mariners. Narrower strike zone that conveniently shrinks to keep yhe Jays in the inning, and now probably one of the most egregious check swings I've seen that wasn't called a strike (bat entirely in front of the plate, bat lined up like a bunt)

James Hutchison @thejameshutchison.bsky.social · 7d

Suarez can't see the low and away corner and it's a liability. It looks like he's just randomly deciding to swing at stuff before the pitcher even throws. His only hit this series is a solo home run.

#mariners

James Hutchison @thejameshutchison.bsky.social · 10d

FUBO has a sports package that seems to be the cheapest option (free trial as well) and then HBO max has TBS

I agree it's obnoxious.

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James Hutchison @thejameshutchison.bsky.social · 10d

All intelligence is predictive, or "cause and effect", in nature. Models that classify are basically predicting a meta-layer that naturally forms in organic systems

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James Hutchison @thejameshutchison.bsky.social · 13d

I'm convinced Suarez decides if he's going to swing or not before the pitcher even starts throwing

James Hutchison @thejameshutchison.bsky.social · 14d

HBO Max feed is also audio / video desynced. Audio is ahead

James Hutchison @thejameshutchison.bsky.social · 14d

That off-center camera in the Milwaukee Brewers / Chicago Cubs game is driving me nuts already.

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James Hutchison @thejameshutchison.bsky.social · 14d

Bleh, can't edit on bluesky

It's like cutting a pie into smaller slices and each slice is the same size, to you, so you're always full.

James Hutchison @thejameshutchison.bsky.social · 14d

Energy gets "created" through subdivision and it "expands" to fit it all in. Actually it subdivides, like cutting a pie into smaller and smaller slices.

Seems like it can go on forever. Perhaps it has.

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James Hutchison @thejameshutchison.bsky.social · 14d

How can the axis of rotation be different than the magnetic field axis if they're homogeneous?

James Hutchison @thejameshutchison.bsky.social · 14d

If you look at the solar wind hitting the magnetic field of the Earth, it looks like the wake of bullet traversing through atmosphere.

Except, it never reaches the sun. It's like it's frozen in time. It's obviously not though.

Perhaps we have gravitational time dilation wrong.

James Hutchison @thejameshutchison.bsky.social · 14d

I can't say that I've thoroughly broken down what's really happening to a high level of confidence. I'm like 75% sure the energy inside is all fabric / vacuum, no atoms. Any excess energy is jetted.

James Hutchison @thejameshutchison.bsky.social · 14d

I'm contemplating dropping the term "black hole" and replacing it with "galaxy eye".

I've continued to use the term because we all know what it is. It's the eye of a galaxy. However, it comes with the connotation that energy cannot escape, which appears to be incorrect.

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James Hutchison @thejameshutchison.bsky.social · 15d

If you're just copying shit from other platforms to here and then never bothering to read replies, just go away.

James Hutchison @thejameshutchison.bsky.social · 15d

If you post something and there's like less than a handful of replies and you don't bother to respond or acknowledge a reasonable response or question from me after multiple interactions, then I'm just going to assume you're an asshole who only cares about what you have to say.

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James Hutchison @thejameshutchison.bsky.social · 15d

Are you unfamiliar with the Atlantic?

James Hutchison @thejameshutchison.bsky.social · 18d

This is comedy gold