If gravity at a place increases or decreases, does it affect the sound wave propagating through that place. If for certain place gravity increases on earth will there be change in direction or wavelength of the sound wave.
Someone asked me this question and I don't think I gave him an adequate answer (I was trying to think of the extreme case - that of neutron stars)
If I'm on a page that has web notifications (like Slack or others), Firefox asks me if I want to enable them. However, my choices are "Yes" or "Ignore for now". The problem is, if I select "Ignore", every time there is a notification it asks me again. This is incredibly annoying.   How do I disable this completely? (I would accept disabling this feature entirely if that's easiest.) Advanced statistics books recommendation There are several threads on this site for book recommendations on  and  but I am looking for a text on advanced statistics including, in order of priority: maximum likelihood, generalized linear models, principal component analysis, non-linear models. I've tried  by A.C. Davison but frankly I had to put it down after 2 chapters. The text is encyclopedic in its coverage and mathematical treats but, as a practitioner, I like to approach subjects by understanding the intuition first, and then delve into the mathematical background.   These are some texts that I consider outstanding for their pedagogical value. I would like to find an equivalent for the more advanced subjects I mentioned.   , D. Freedman, R. Pisani, R. Purves. , R. Hyndman et al. , T. Z. Keith , Rand R. Wilcox , Gareth James, Daniela Witten, Trevor Hastie and Robert Tibshirani , Hastie, Tibshirani and Friedman (2009) Texture Channel animated, doesn't appear in viewport My awk program to change spaces into tabs doesn't work How to write a shell script which uses awk to read in the data file students.txt and output the data in the tabbed format as shown:  Surname Forename MSc Stream Date of Birth Smith John IT 15.01.1986 Taylor Susan IT 04.05.1987 Thomas Steve MIT 19.04.1986    Do not worry if tabbed columns don’t line up. The distance between each of (Surname, Forename, MSc Stream and Date of Birth) column is one tab.   Question:  Why this bellow code doesn't work for me?  awk 'BEGIN {IFS=" "} {OFS="\t"} {print $1,$2,$3,$4}' students.txt Improve alignment of "Learn more" button in "Newest badge" popup The popup when you click on your newest badge in your user profile has a &quot;Learn more&quot; button, but its alignment is suboptimal; it's too close to the top of its container:  It looks better with a 4px top margin: I need to build a probabilistic cellular automaton for simulating land-use changes and am wondering how to implement this in a GIS. I understand that Markov chains are a way of doing this, and IDRISI has some sort of module for Markov chains, but I have no access to IDRISI.  that, with raster data, this can, in theory, be done with any GIS that can do raster algebra. Presumably this means that it can even be done in ArcGIS, and I think I've figured out how to build cellular automata in ModelBuilder (once I know with certainty how to make iteration work there).  Still, I can find next to no practical advice on this. Once I have two datasets, one showing the land use at a certain point in time (time A) and the other at a later time (time B), I imagine doing the following (correct me if I'm wrong):   If there are (for example) 3 types of land use, then there are 9 possible things that can happen to a cell from time A to time B; thus, reclassify each dataset such that each land use is represented by a different number (for example, 9, 11, and 14 at time A and 3, 4, and 5 at time B); Divide one raster by the other, obtaining a raster with 9 possible cell values. Determine the percentage of cells in the new raster that has each of the 9 values (I forgot, how does one do this in ArcGIS?); those will be the probabilities of each type of change (or lack thereof) in land use.   What I cannot figure out, though, is how to apply these probabilities during the next iteration. Finally, I wonder if there is a way of making an external factor (say, proximity to roads) influence the spatial distribution (not the overall likelihood) of change in my model.  Can anyone recommend where to find information on how to do this in ArcGIS? How to perform hard / cold reboot of iPhone or iPad? I understand that when I press and release the power button on the top of my iPhone or iPad, it stays on but turns off the screen.  Whereas if I press and hold the power button, a "slide to turn off" control appears on the screen.  Sliding this, as I was told, does turn the unit off, but it does so by suspending the RAM to disk (flash memory, actually.) So, when turning on the iPhone or iPad, it isn't so much rebooting the OS as it is resuming it from flash storage.  How to force the OS to completely reboot on these devices? Is there a way to fix a small chip in a wall's paint? I'm not sure exactly with what I've bumped my wall and caused this this:    Is there anything that can be done to fix this without repainting the entire room?  I've been reading around a bit, and not sure exactly what to call this, hence the weird question title.  The paint is a beige-ish colour, not exactly white. The hole is about 2 x 1.5 cm in size.   I've read a bit about spackling paste, though I understand that's for small cracks and holes.  Here are some picture with a better resolution:  and   Unfortunately, I don't have much experience with this sort of thing. Help please.  Also, this is in the UK, so you can tell what stores I might have access to for materials. How do you photograph rain? What are recommended settings for my Nikon Coolpix P1 to best portray rain?  Here's what I got. No retouching was applied.   The picture I took when the rain was heavy with the automatic settings:  The picture I took with the "Sports" program; by then, however, the rain was not as hard. Ugh, ugly gray strip at the bottom, that was the flat surface I put my camera on to get a stable picture.   My main problem is that the actual rain and hailstorm is very hard to see in the picture. The overall effect is, instead, of fog.    Follow-up from the thread, courtesy of more rain, now with less hailstorm and more thunder.  The feedback amounted to flash and faster shutter. I took a few photos and I'm having some trouble to reconstruct what I did to get each result. Two representative results:   Fast shutter, with some guest starring:I'm talking about that horrible building obviously. Faster shutter and flash:Kinda difficult to say those pictures were taken sixty seconds of each other. :)   I'm not sure, however, that either of this is really an improvement of the original results. Auto incrementing field based on groups within feature class? I am needing to auto increment a field based on groups within a feature class. I have 8 plots within a given polygon and I need to assign them an ID from 1-8 for each set of plots within each polygon. The polygon would have its own unique ID number to be used to group the plots.  I assume it would be an alteration of this:  rec=0 def autoIncrement():  global rec  pStart = 1   pInterval = 1   if (rec == 0):    rec = pStart   else:    rec = rec + pInterval   return rec Handler frame_change_pre doesn't work in render this works in viewport but not in render.  import bpy from math import *  def frame_handler(scene):     z = scene.objects['Lift'].location[2]     scene.objects['Text'].data.body = str(floor(z / 4.0) - 2)  bpy.app.handlers.frame_change_pre.clear() bpy.app.handlers.frame_change_pre.append(frame_handler)   How to get it working in render? I've read  and changed from "bpy.data.objects" to "scene.objects" as already seen in the script. What am I missing? Blender v. 2.81.16  Edit. Tried that depsgraph thing mentioned in comments and changed to frame_change_post:  import bpy from bpy.app.handlers import persistent from math import *  @persistent  # maybe not relevant but doesn't harm anything? def frame_handler(scene, depsgraph):     z = scene.objects['Lift'].evaluated_get(depsgraph).location[2]     scene.objects['Text'].data.body = str(floor(z / 4.0) - 2)  bpy.app.handlers.frame_change_pre.clear() bpy.app.handlers.frame_change_post.clear() bpy.app.handlers.frame_change_post.append(frame_handler)   Now the Text doesn't show up at all in rendered (but works in viewport). What is the design pattern for processing command line arguments For symmetric stable distributions, why is $\alpha \le 2$? Parenthesis vs brackets for matrices When I first learned linear algebra, both the professor and the book used brackets like [ and ] to enclose matrices. However, in my current differential equations textbook, matrices are enclosed by parenthesis, and I suddenly realize everybody else are using them too.  So are brackets/parenthesis for enclosing matrices always totally interchangeable? nomencl package : sort by order of appearance In the nomencl package, how can I make the symbols print by order of appearance in the LaTeX code? If $f(x)\to 0$ as $x\to\infty$ and $f''$ is bounded, show that $f'(x)\to0$ as $x\to\infty$ Unidentified address in Gmail Many times, when I copy&amp;paste an email address into the "To" field in a Gmail message, it refuses to send the email, saying that “the address has not been identified”. This is very frustrating. Is there any solution other than just manually typing the address? Pass the output of previous command to next as an argument Why cast an unused function parameter value to void? Assign multiple colors to features within a single vector layer