Backblaze's published figures are well-known and help inform purchases of hard disks. Wouldn't hard drive manufacturers make sure to send them their best samples to get good publicity?

Thank you for the question. I have found this comment thread very helpful in seeing use cases and limitations for LLMs.

I think you are referring to general relativistic effects. However, I don't think we would say this reduces its accuracy - it is correctly keeping time within its reference frame.

Great point. I don't use my phone for high bandwidth stuff, but this does look like an opening for ISPs to move traffic away from wires. I don't like that.

Came here to say much the same thing. When I've had a clear view of Neptune in an 8" reflector, it had a very distinctive dark blue - much like the original Voyager 2 picture. It was just a dot, but the color was clear.

My solution to watching YouTube on TV without ads:

I have a small NUC with Linux hooked up to the TV. I run Firefox (with uBlock) in full-screen using a separate profile dedicated to YouTube. I control the screen from my phone using the KDE Connect app. Not great, but works. I hate ads.

On the same NUC I have Kodi to watch my own movies streamed from a file server.

My sister nuked my homework.

Some of Jackie's best work is in the 80s. He was younger and unstoppable - and very funny.

"Dragons Forever" is another one to check out. Like "Wheels on Meals", it has Sammo Hung and Benny Urquidez. Great fight sequences.

"Drunken Master II" / "Legend of Drunken Master" (same movie, somewhat different edits) still remains my favorite Jackie Chan movie - every fight scene is awesome.

"I Know Where I'm Going" (1945)- a film set on a Scottish isle. An American woman tries to reach her fiance, but is stuck on the island due to a storm. Excellent cinematography, acting, and writing. It has romance, atmosphere, and a truly breathtaking whirlpool sequence (amazing effects!). The far inferior "Leap Year" is very loosely based on the same story.

"The Shop Around The Corner" (1940) - early Jimmy Stewart romantic comedy based on a play. It is about much more than the central romance with a number of wonderful supporting characters. "You've Got Mail" is a very weak remake of this story.

"Ice Cold in Alex" (1958) - British movie set in WWII. Ambulance tries to cross Sahara without being stopped by Nazis. Filled with intrigue.

"The Fisher King" (1991) - lesser known Terry Gilliam movie starring Robin Williams and Jeff Bridges. Sort of a fantasy/romance/comedy (i.e. a Gilliam movie).

Currently using Linux Mint Cinnamon, but will be looking at Ubuntu 18.04 for possible switch.

Web Browser: Vivaldi, Firefox, Chrome
Email Client: Thunderbird
IDE: IntelliJ, Eclipse
File manager: Nemo, Nautilus
Basic Text Editor: Xed / Gedit
PDF Reader: evince
Office Suite: Libreoffice (but needs so much work!)
Video Player: MPlayer / Xplayer
Music Player: quodlibet

You can and geologists have done this (like along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge). But radiometric dating is not precise enough to give "decade-scale" data. The purpose of this study is to see how much fluctuation occurs on short time scales (as opposed to thousands or millions of years).

I completely agree. As you may know, there are examples of this. In fact the term is restorative justice.

In one unusual case it was applied to a murder as described in this excellent NY Times article: Can Forgiveness Play a Role in Criminal Justice?.

I second this. More fantasy than science fiction, but an engaging and philosophical work.

until they've worked the bugs out.