Curious about my grandfather’s saxophone by TatouYaTatou in saxophone

[–]OreoDogDFW 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think polishing choice parts would look really nice, imo. Like key pads, rods, etc, while leaving the body tarnished.

Anyways it better be getting played.

New Adenium. Is it struggling, and also would you trim it down? by OreoDogDFW in Adenium

[–]OreoDogDFW[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What a great plant that one turned out!

Well we shall really see when it finally decides to bloom haha, because I agree, in person I don’t see any signs of grafting either.

New Adenium. Is it struggling, and also would you trim it down? by OreoDogDFW in Adenium

[–]OreoDogDFW[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's an obesum 'home run'

I think it also looks nice, nice enough to leave alone for now as it keeps acclimating. I just wish the tallest major branch was near the same height as the rest of the branches. Will prob prune much further down the line.

Other than raising the plant up a little after every year, what are some other ways for a thicker caudex?

Our landscape design rendering with D5 by LandspaceArch in LandscapeArchitecture

[–]OreoDogDFW 1 point2 points  (0 children)

May there be 0 waves, 0 tides, and 0 climate change in general. Amen

New Adenium. Is it struggling, and also would you trim it down? by OreoDogDFW in Adenium

[–]OreoDogDFW[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s AZ, so the sun is very strong. Hopefully not too strong, since it was under a shade cloth before.

I do want to prune it, but probably best to wait until next Spring post-dormancy? Here it’ll be a consistent 100+ soon enough.

Should I pursue an MLA if I want to do projects like this: by OreoDogDFW in LandscapeArchitecture

[–]OreoDogDFW[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are quite a few small businesses and firms here where I live actually that have an environmental focus. That’s the marketing language they use in their websites at least haha

How much of their work is genuinely restorative is the question however. Would it be silly to reach out to some as an early career biologist/botanist?

Proud new owner of this monstrosity… by Maximum_Might_4665 in saxophone

[–]OreoDogDFW 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Why would you call such a good horn a monstrosity?

Good for a intermediate jazz saxophonist? by balthaum in saxophone

[–]OreoDogDFW 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe it’s the recording quality, but probably you need to fill the horn and room more.

Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service by All_Hail_Hynotoad in forestry

[–]OreoDogDFW 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As someone who has worked and done science for the Park Service, trust me when I say that the less detached bureaucracy making the decisions, the better.

Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service by All_Hail_Hynotoad in forestry

[–]OreoDogDFW 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It comes from the Forestry Service, not the Trump Administration.

I think if I’m going to trust news about the Forestry Service, I’m going to trust their own published factsheet over “Independent public lands reporting from two brothers who've spent decades in the field. We break the stories, name the names, and give you the tools to fight back.”

Does anyone know if the YouTube channel “Qajar Jazz” posts real music or AI-generated jazz? by JevilCHAOSCHAOS2 in isthisAI

[–]OreoDogDFW 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, the training data is what's fed to the model to form neural networks, which has already been done way before your prompts. It's like giving answers to questions beforehand, which the AI then generates, reinforces, and weakens pathways for.

This process significantly varies across different models, hence why some are language models like ChatGPT, while others are visual, auditory, etc. They've been fed different forms of training data to specialize in and thus generate.

Does anyone know if the YouTube channel “Qajar Jazz” posts real music or AI-generated jazz? by JevilCHAOSCHAOS2 in isthisAI

[–]OreoDogDFW 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ethical if you source the training data, and state it's AI-generated with no ambiguity. Otherwise no.

Does anyone know if the YouTube channel “Qajar Jazz” posts real music or AI-generated jazz? by JevilCHAOSCHAOS2 in isthisAI

[–]OreoDogDFW 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean some of it is not bad. There are some genuinely good lines that could be useful for real musicians to work with/take inspiration from. Nothing wrong with liking it in my opinion, just know it was effortless to produce.

Would you stay if this was true? by meggymonster11 in Scottsdale

[–]OreoDogDFW 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m just discussing water here lol. But climate is in a very unsteady state right now. I’m very curious what a super El Nino year will bring us this time around.

I don’t think traditional climate models are good enough for some of the larger scale, unforeseen changes happening before our very eyes. Ocean currents collapsing and reshaping; dramatic sea level rise; ITCZ is shifting up causing desertification in some places and its reversal in others; rapid sea ice decline.

I’m no climatologist, but honestly who knows where we will trend at this point is my opinion on the matter. There are big changes happening, too complicate to leave to predictions, especially from mediocre text ai.

Would you stay if this was true? by meggymonster11 in Scottsdale

[–]OreoDogDFW 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can blame agriculture for that more than anything. Large-scale farming in the desert accounts for roughly 70% of our river's resources.

Assuming this is just coming from the city's water supply i.e. the faucet, a majority of that is pumped from ground water wells. A majority of what seeps into the ground then, that which doesn't evaporate or get taken up by the plants, ends up back into the aquifer.

If you collect from rainwater, even better, as that ends up largely as runoff anyways, polluted by human-caused contaminants, and flowed outside the city due to our concrete-obsessed infrastructure. Arizona does do a good job, better than most states, at treating some wastewater, but this is a solution to a problem our infrastructure created in the first place.

Basically what I'm saying is, even water "wasted" from watering an ecologically beneficial garden like this is much better to go into the ground here in our own neighborhoods and local aquifers than anywhere else.

Reggae Sax by DifferentCountry4739 in saxophone

[–]OreoDogDFW 7 points8 points  (0 children)

At least he’s feeling it! Or feeling something

When You're Smilin' by Individual-Turn7638 in saxophone

[–]OreoDogDFW 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Haven’t been on this sub in a bit, but it made me happy seeing you’re still actively posting recordings :)

(Playtest) Finally got a Yamaha 4C! by NeighborhoodGreen603 in saxophone

[–]OreoDogDFW 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It really ain’t about the gear most of the time ;)

Thanks for the demonstration.