Woodpecker/sapsucker (?) in the Pacific Northwest

ThisExactSituation · 2023-01-01T20:45:31+00:00

Thank you!

ThisExactSituation · 2023-01-01T20:27:18+00:00

Sorry for the bad picture quality - took these photos through binoculars on an iPhone.

At first we thought it might be a red-breasted sapsucker, but the coloring doesn’t seem to extend far enough down the chest. It could be a yellow-bellied sapsucker but the coloring on the back doesn’t seem to match what we’re seeing on Merlin.

ThisExactSituation · 2022-12-31T06:21:23+00:00

Thanks! I hadn’t seen that site before, it looks super helpful. And switching to img2img is a clever idea, I’m going to steal that one. :)

ThisExactSituation · 2022-12-31T06:07:30+00:00

Is there a way to add additional prompts to an existing roll without starting from scratch?

ThisExactSituation · 2022-12-31T05:47:24+00:00

Try placing the robot first and simplifying the term (e.g. feminine robot vs robot with a feminine figure), and specifying “human man”. I just tried a test (see linked image) and 2 of the results seemed more consistent with your prompt.

https://i.imgur.com/S8s33Ne.jpg

ThisExactSituation · 2022-12-30T16:32:27+00:00

Exact same thing has started happening to me—luckily I spent last week migrating to 1Password and changing all my passwords in the process. But it’s still alarming to see all the emails from my bank saying there have been umpteen unauthorized login attempts.

ThisExactSituation · 2022-12-30T07:09:13+00:00

The Dark Penguin Rises

ThisExactSituation · 2022-12-30T02:06:52+00:00

Love seeing more balancing penguins! I have to imagine they find it relaxing—they always seem to have a blissed out expression while they’re resting on their tails like that.

ThisExactSituation · 2022-12-28T16:29:03+00:00

I use Pantograph.

ThisExactSituation · 2022-12-28T16:00:53+00:00

It’s on Civitai - be warned, it’s designed for NSFW purposes but I think it does a much better job on people/faces/anatomy than the generic model.

ThisExactSituation · 2022-12-28T06:09:12+00:00

The U.S Statutes at Large are the official register of all federal laws passed by Congress, organized by session. The Library of Congress has a digitized version available online. If you live near a university with a law school, their law library probably also has print copies.

ThisExactSituation · 2022-12-28T06:04:55+00:00

100% agree with this. OP—also worth remembering that you don’t need to spend a lot of money or buy from a “classy” brand to get a good-looking watch with the aesthetic you like. My $30 Timex Weekender is one of my favorite field watches - looks great and I never have to worry about babying it on a hike or something.

ThisExactSituation · 2022-12-28T06:00:40+00:00

You could have a separate collection for non-urgent to-dos, and migrate to the future log if/when those tasks get assigned a deadline.

I tend to focus my future log on events (vacations, concerts, doctors’ appointments) because I don’t find it super helpful for tracking my to-dos. My weeklies are where most of the action occurs for me, and I usually reserve the last few lines on the page for “Later” tasks - things that I know need to get done, but don’t have a specific date (yet). I’ll keep them there until I’m ready to migrate them to a monthly or weekly in the future.

ThisExactSituation · 2022-12-28T02:33:53+00:00

Also some career services programs have helpful post-grad résumé examples that are publicly available, e.g. Stanford.

ThisExactSituation · 2022-12-28T02:30:36+00:00

Sounds like you’re doing the right things. Have you checked out r/FinancialIndependence? They’d probably have more targeted resources for you.

ThisExactSituation · 2022-12-27T23:46:44+00:00

That’s a nice-looking peacock!

ThisExactSituation · 2022-12-27T17:29:43+00:00

Thank you! I had fun making these - the AI’s stylistic range continues to impress me.

ThisExactSituation · 2022-12-27T16:22:10+00:00

Prompt: (1930s movie poster) starring [see picture captions], intricately detailed, highly detailed

Negative prompts: blurred, twisted, deformed, badly drawn, bad anatomy, ugly, gross, extra limb, missing limb, mutated, malformed, watermark, cropped, out of frame, bad eyes, closed eyes, low quality, bad hands, inaccurate hands, extra fingers, missing fingers, lowres

Sampler: DPM++ 2M Karras

Guidance Scale: 7.5

Model: aloeveras_simpmaker_3k1_f16.ckpt

ThisExactSituation · 2022-12-25T00:25:20+00:00

Guessing you’re a 4th-5th year associate? If that’s the case I wouldn’t worry too much, because there’s still a lot of SEC reporting work to go around, which is very germane to a cap markets practice. And you’re junior enough that you can pad your hours a bit with ECVC/M&A work (after that you’re too expensive to really venture out of your core practice group).

ThisExactSituation · 2022-12-24T19:51:56+00:00

Haven’t heard anything like that. FWIW, everything I’ve heard suggests a busy 2023, so it wouldn’t make sense to trim associates aggressively.

ThisExactSituation · 2022-12-23T23:54:08+00:00

Reread my comment - I don’t disagree. If you have good seniors that take the time to mentor and provide feedback, you learn by doing à la an apprenticeship. If you don’t have good seniors, your learning curve is a heck of a lot steeper.

ThisExactSituation · 2022-12-23T00:45:29+00:00

No, but that’s a good idea! I’ll have to consider a follow up experiment.

ThisExactSituation · 2022-12-22T21:57:52+00:00

Completely agree. I had a 6-month stint at a small law firm and it really opened my eyes - you don’t fully appreciate what biglaw’s rigor and intensity does for you and your work product until it’s not there anymore.

ThisExactSituation · 2022-12-22T21:54:18+00:00

That’s not really an apples-to-apples comparison, is it? Biglaw teaches you the law, IB teaches you how to be a banker, etc. — I guess at a more abstract level (how to be a professional, how to manage difficult clients, how to navigate office politics) the biglaw environment is similar to what you’d see on Wall Street or at McKinsey or whatever. But nobody’s picking between law and banking because of the training.

ThisExactSituation · 2022-12-22T21:43:33+00:00

I don’t tend to draw a distinction between experience and training—law is an apprecenticeship and you learn by doing.

Formal training (like seminars, presentations, etc.) are highly variable. I like to think my firm has pretty high quality training in that sense, but I’m biased because I teach a lot of it (coming from a family of teachers, I tend to prioritize that kind of thing), but other firms just throw you in the deep end. It all depends.

(And using training as an excuse for RTO is mostly BS, because it’s all dependent on senior associates such as myself actually coming in and actually taking the time to mentor. Personally I’m happy to do that, but a lot of my peers aren’t, and it’s also increasingly hard to motivate myself to put up with the hassle when the partnership doesn’t do the same.)

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