Recent content by DaveC426913

The options would be reflection, humidity and transmission. 1] The sound is reflected off the cloud layer, just like it might do off the side of a building. 2] The humid layer of cloud improves reflection of sound. 3] The sound is transmitted directly through more humid air.

Yes. By a landslide. And not just in an intuitive sense; most seemed to know it probabilistically.

My advice: don't stick your head on the particle beam.

I have Chrome on Win 11. :frown: I wonder what's; different about yours.

What browser you using?

@.Scott Seen your name a million times but, for some reason, this time my brain seized on it and wondered if perhaps your middle name was "cor" (or "ctor"). As in: No idea why.

I Iike this answer. It shows that the AI issue is multi-faceted and still quite problematic.

How intriguing. It also raises further questions: Was the AI doing harm in publishing its hit piece? Is that an alignment problem? It may not align with the developer's wishes, but conceivably aligns with the community-at-large, right? I mean product/service reviews are a good thing Yelp...

Don't know if such a feature exists. I spend a lot of cycles proofing my posts for SPaG (Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar - learned that from my writing forum). 90% of that happens after I've posted - which means it becomes PF's problem. Any such thing as a spellchecker feature that could be...

Let's pretend my organization has just announced a round of massive downsizing (don't ask me why I'm thinking this today). Let's pretend we have no idea who or how many might be getting their walking papers. Let's further pretend we all have a macabre sense of amusement, and decide to set up an...

I just realized this didn't land the way I thought it would. (especially since it's too low-rez to actually read the comments) FBusers are usually dumb at best, outright ign'ant at worst. But the comments in this Monty Hall posts were bang-on. Every one was "Always switch. This is old news."...

This thread could have been two posts long. All we had to do was ask Facebook.

Sitting out in my shed with the door open. Warm, sunny skies. And quiet. I suddenly look up from my reading because I can hear the highway traffic. I couldn't a moment ago. I see that a fast, thick white cloud layer has moved overhead and blotted out the sun in less than five minutes. If it...