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@miyotehew
One magnificent bird! ❤️@scandigonian Right, I usually hear their familiar call before I see them. A rarish bird, this one was young about crow sized.
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@miyotehew What a great shot!
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@miyotehew What a great shot!
@amandamakepeace oh thank you :) its handheld 200mm zoom, about 25 yards
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@scandigonian Right, I usually hear their familiar call before I see them. A rarish bird, this one was young about crow sized.
@miyotehew
Last fall, I had THREE of them on the incense cedar near our driveway. I couldn't believe it!Here's two of them in this crappy video I took. (Turn up the sound.)
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@miyotehew
Last fall, I had THREE of them on the incense cedar near our driveway. I couldn't believe it!Here's two of them in this crappy video I took. (Turn up the sound.)
@scandigonian Oh nice! looks and sounds like a family. Thanks for sharing
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@scandigonian Oh nice! looks and sounds like a family. Thanks for sharing
@miyotehew
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@miyotehew regal fellow
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@miyotehew FWIW, I was surprised to learn how BIG these birds are! (BIG!)
“Adults are 40 to 49 cm (16 to 19 in) long, span 66 to 75 cm (26 to 30 in) across the wings, and weigh 225 to 400 g (7.9 to 14.1 oz)”
-Wikipedia
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@miyotehew
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@miyotehew FWIW, I was surprised to learn how BIG these birds are! (BIG!)
“Adults are 40 to 49 cm (16 to 19 in) long, span 66 to 75 cm (26 to 30 in) across the wings, and weigh 225 to 400 g (7.9 to 14.1 oz)”
-Wikipedia
@iDGS yes, I was lucky to see a giant one. Years ago, never forgot..seemed like the bird was almost two feet tall standing.
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@rubenerd @exchgr also, note that weather app has all the things I probably wouldn't have bothered doing on a small throwaway project because they're tedious: Good test coverage, every static analysis option possible, nice packaging and automatic deployment to the server when tagging a release via Github actions. All that would have taken me days to write by hand, even though that's exactly the kind of stuff I do every day at work, versus a few minutes of prompting and occasionally correcting.
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@aeva ahh I see, makes more sense knowing about swipe. I never did figure that out myself, heh.
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@rubenerd @exchgr I could have built the weather app in...maybe 3x-4x the time it took? But, I probably wouldn't have, because I didn't want it three or four times more than that amount of effort.
I've got two other much larger projects that haven't really launched yet, that have also taken remarkably less time than I would have required doing it myself.
I hate being "rah rah AI", but I'm not going to lie on the internet about it when I know it's gotten really good at writing code.
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@johnlogic I’d remove the AA and the “just classes” from education. If you’re concerned about gaps, you already call it “career impact” so it doesn’t have to be complete.
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By posting on here, tapping into my social network is exactly what I'm trying to do.
I've heard that weak ties can be the most powerful, especially when job seeking.
I also have a pretty extensive professional network, as I volunteer for the world's largest technical professional organization, IEEE.
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@rubenerd @exchgr I was dragged into it by my employer, as I like having health insurance, but it works. Over the holidays I built a bunch of stuff (an absurd amount of stuff), more working code than I've ever written in such a short time in my life. I wanted a weather app without ads, so I built one in a couple of hours. https://wthr.lol/ (And, if you're curious about code quality, it's here: https://github.com/swelljoe/wthr.lol )
I've used it to find bugs in huge projects and build from scratch.
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@aeva *it turns out, sometimes the juice is not worth the squeeze
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@rubenerd @exchgr yeah, I read all the studies and felt quite smug about AI, as well. And, then I actually built some stuff and found some bugs with current gen frontier models, and my priors were upended.
I'm not saying I like it, as it's going to cause a tremendous amount of disruption, and not in a good way, given who holds every leadership position in government and industry right now. But, I simply can't pretend it doesn't work, anymore, because I've seen it with my own eyes.
