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You can get around the memory ordering issue if you only emulate a single core. Performance suffers but for many legacy workloads performance is not critical.

In an alternate reality, the prime meridian could have been chosen to pass through Florence, making 180° and the edges of the world map pass cleanly through the Bering Strait.

Would be sweet if it could use the microphone to auto-tune the speakers by playing audio and listening to the result. Microphones are not perfect but a cheap microphone has much better frequency response than cheap speakers. If you assume the microphone is perfect you will get a pretty good result, probably better than a generic "laptop speaker" preset would be.


Omnidirectional electret mics are nearly dead flat right out of the box, and cheap.


> Would be sweet if it could use the microphone to auto-tune the speakers by playing audio and listening to the result.

https://peqdb.com/#speakers

You need an omnidirectional mic.


I was shocked when I imported a 1.5M row dataset into Office365 Excel and found that it had silently cropped my data to 1048576 rows. One million items is a ridiculously low limit for a modern computer, and deleting 1/3 of my data without any warning is unacceptable. 20 years ago Excel could handle 1.5 million rows without breaking a sweat but this webpage version isn't real Excel.

So I used Gnumeric instead and it worked fine.


Excel has a limit of 1M rows now just like it 20 years ago.

The 2003 version had a 64k row limit.

I agree with what you write though: limit could be increased + webpage version is pure garbage.


The Indo-European speakers invaded from the north.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Aryan_migrations


There is a difference between invasion and migration though, AIT has long been debunked, the current consensus is AMT


There are many historical events of Indo-European speakers invading India from the north, like Darius the Great, Alexander the Great, the Mughals. AIT refers to a theory from an earlier time period but rejecting it does not rule out subsequent Indo-European conquests of the region which surely contributed to the spread of Indo-European culture and language southward.


But the advent of Indo-European languages in Northern India (let alone Southern Sri Lanka) has nothing to do with Alexander or the Mughals.

The Aryan Invasion Theory was propagated by the British to justify their colonial brutality, and no self-respecting historian will now call the gradual Aryan migration an invasion. The only people who still do are usually trying to achieve some political aims, usually imperial apologia.


Why are you being down voted... By the time alexander showed up India had spoken an indo European language for thousands of years.


People don't like getting their dogmas challenged, especially when it comes to their Fathers' sins.


His first sentence is reasonable. The rest of the comment is unhinged.


> The theory of an immigration of IA speaking Arya ("Aryan invasion") is simply seen as a means of British policy to justify their own intrusion into India and their subsequent colonial rule: in both cases, a "white race" was seen as subduing the local darker colored population.

Source: Edwin Bryant in https://archive.org/details/EdwinBryantLauriePattonIndoAryan...


That doesn't explain Sri Lanka which is past South India...

Edit: The actual answer is North/Eastern Indians speaking an IE variant immigrated to Sri Lanka in the 5th/6th centuries and became the dominant language there since (Sinhala)


Could it be that Sri lanka is an island


Sri Lanka only became an island like 500 years ago. It was a storm in 1480 that disconnected the passable land bridge that once connected it to mainland India.


Sri Lanka's been inhabited for over 100k years.


Why not multi-mode? The transceivers are a lot cheaper, especially for 100G and above.


Yes, 100G multimode transceivers are cheaper, but they don't use the same fiber.

100G on singlemode (100G-LR4 being the most common) uses the well-known two-strand ("duplex") fiber. Or you can get 100G bi-directional ("BiDi") over a single strand of singlemode (fiber-to-the-home often uses this).

100G on multimode is weird. As the name implies, one beam of light, sent down the core of a multimode fiber, results in multiple modes (search "Laser modes") being sent down the strand. As they overlap, it gets hard to get a clean signal out the other end.

To deal with this issue, 100G on multimode uses fiber cables containing multiple strands per direction of travel. MPO-8 and MPO-12 are common cables used for 100G multimode: It contains eight or twelve strands of fiber. Four strands are used to send, four to receive. And the prices for those cables are higher than standard duplex singlemode cable.


> Why not multi-mode? The transceivers are a lot cheaper, especially for 100G and above.

OS2 transceivers are not that expensive anymore with the rise in third-party modules: sure, first-party, OEM SKUs are pricey, but a home user is not going to go that route.

Standard /r/networking advice is to go single-mode basically everywhere due to price drops over the last 10+ years.


If you just want to use LC connectors everywhere, they’re the same price. Plus single mode fiber has the advantage that there’s only two kinds and we really only use one of them.

The math worked out just to move to single mode a decade ago


Having debugged flaky 100GE links on multimode fibre: absolutely the f*ck not. Unless forced by compatibility needs, you install single mode, end of evaluation of benefits and drawbacks. SMF just works. MMF is dead for any and all greenfield fixed installation.

The sibling posts have already pointed out the pricing has mostly equalized at this point too, especially if you're more realistic and look at 10G or 25G. (Or just buy a pile of used 100G CWDM4 transceivers off eBay.)


single mode are pretty cheap too (12e for 10gbit/s bidi for example)


Doing the cabling job was a weekend long project for me, I just never want to have to do that again (yes yes I should have run conduit and pull strings, but single mode just means I didn't have to even do that)


If you want a 10GBASE-T SFP+ module that doesn't run hot, look for one with 802.3bz support. Any module that supports 2.5G and 5G speeds has newer silicon which runs cooler.

There is an old but still good list of transceivers with this feature here: https://www.servethehome.com/sfp-to-10gbase-t-adapter-module...


To make it less hot, just use fiber optics.


I recently got a Grandstream GWN7615 access point to add coverage on the other side of the house from the main router. It does not meet the minimum spec listed in this article but for more modest requirements I think it's an excellent value. You can get one for well under $100. It is WiFi 5, 3x3 MIMO, and you don't need any cloud account to manage it.


Every generation of CPU has high-power and low-power variants. The i9 is a high power variant that generates a lot of heat but what you want is the low power variant.

I recommend looking for a used laptop with a Core Ultra 7 165U (<$500) or a Core Ultra 7 268V (>$1000). Maybe an HP EliteBook. Either one would be faster than your old i9 and run much cooler.


I see their 60-bit float has the same size exponent (11 bits) as today's doubles. Only the mantissa was smaller, 48 bits instead of 52.


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