ammo1662 (u/ammo1662)

ammo1662 commented on Cloudflare was down cloudflare.com/... · Posted by u/mektrik

ammo1662 · 3 months ago

"Given Cloudflare's importance in the Internet ecosystem any outage of any of our systems is unacceptable. "

Is this a joke?

And their blog of above statement is also down:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/

ammo1662 commented on Japanese game devs face font dilemma as license increases from $380 to $20k gamesindustry.biz/japanes... · Posted by u/zdw

Macha · 3 months ago

The same happens in reverse sometimes, e.g. the super skinny font in final fantasy pixel remasters:

https://images.rpgsite.net/image/da49c9a1/102696/original/FF...

Ironically, they had a better Latin font _in the Japanese language version_ for all the genre loan abbreviations like MP/HP/LV etc., (https://terimaland.com/Memory/Steam_FinalFantasyPixelRemaste...) so that image is comparing the modded in Japanese Latin font vs the font the game includes by default.

(They also have a retro blocky "pixellated" font option iirc, which doesn't have the super narrow widths)

ammo1662 · 3 months ago

They look like half-width characters. This is a historical issue, not a font style issue. You can check:

https://mailmate.jp/blog/half-width-full-width-hankaku-zenka...

ammo1662 commented on China's BEV trucks and the end of diesel's dominance cleantechnica.com/2025/11... · Posted by u/xbmcuser

cachius · 4 months ago

There's a fabulous drive technology for electric trucks in Germany if powering it with hydrogen via fuel cell interests you. Got awarded the German Future Prize 2025 recently. https://www.bosch-presse.de/pressportal/de/en/bosch-team-win...

It's for long distance/quick refill operations. I wonder how the BEV trucks handle this. Can they swap batteries or are limited to shorter distances?

Here's the award ceremony in German https://minily.org/gfp25-award-bosch-long-distance-truck-fce...

ammo1662 · 4 months ago

Those BEV trucks come in both swappable battery and fast-charging models. Most support dual chargers for simultaneous charging. A 600kWh battery can be fully charged in about an hour with two 350kW chargers. Two more common 180kW charger takes around two hours. Some trucks even support four chargers at once. But for the small and cheap trucks used in city, they may take 4 hours for charging to run 200km.

I've also know some trucks used in mines that don't even need charging. The electricity generated when descending with a full load is enough to power the empty truck back uphill.

ammo1662 commented on Norway reviews cybersecurity after remote-access feature found in Chinese buses scandasia.com/norway-revi... · Posted by u/dredmorbius

exabrial · 4 months ago

This is likely laziness more than malice, but... why are busses connected to the internet?

ammo1662 · 4 months ago

In China, most of buses in first-tier cities are connected to the internet to report their location and status. This allows you to check the approximate location of the next bus and a relatively accurate arrival time on a map app. It's especially useful in bad weather or traffic congestion , as you don't have to wait in heavy rain or strong winds for a bus with an uncertain arrival time.

ammo1662 commented on China Can't Win campbellramble.ai/p/china... · Posted by u/imastrategist

bee_rider · 5 months ago

If anything, we should send them more Office licenses to slow them down. If they start putting things in wikis we’ll never catch up.

ammo1662 · 5 months ago

It has already been done this way.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-09-fi-micro...

In China, WPS has a longer history than Office. The first release of WPS, as a Chinese word processing software, was released in 1989. It wasn't until 1996 when Microsoft reached a format-sharing agreement with Kingsoft that Office entered the Chinese market. After Microsoft tolerated piracy, Office's usage surpassed WPS.

ammo1662 commented on Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia cnbc.com/2025/10/13/dutch... · Posted by u/piskov

pmontra · 5 months ago

Do they use the same Microsoft software and the Azure APIs that are available in the rest of the world?

ammo1662 · 5 months ago

Yes. As for AWS, some of the services are not available in CN. But the APIs are the same for the services that are available.

For some MS software, you need to sign an additional agreement consenting to cross-border transfer of personal data before use. But the features are the same.

ammo1662 commented on Qwen3Guard: Real-Time Safety for Your Token Stream huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3... · Posted by u/ammo1662

ammo1662 · 6 months ago

https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen3Guard

This is very useful for enterprise application development, or for AI applications that are publicly facing.

You definitely wouldn't want a colleague to jailbreak your RAG application.

ammo1662 commented on South Korea's President says US investment demands would spark financial crisis cnbc.com/2025/09/21/south... · Posted by u/donsupreme

magnio · 6 months ago

This "pay up for trade access" is similar to the tributary system of feudal China. Every year, neighboring countries of China like Korea, Japan, Thailand, and Vietnam sent envoys to Imperial China, paying gold, women, and exotic products, in return for recognition of their sovereignty (subject to the supreme authority of Chinese emperor), military protection, and access to trade routes within China.

It is interesting to see the resurgence of such imperial practices in modern-day America. I think it worked out quite well for the Tang dynasty, but arguably that was because all East Asian feudal states were authoritarian monarchy back then. A logical next step would be for POTUS to declare himself as the supreme leader of the world, emend educational materials to propound the idea that the US is superior to other tributary states, quell all internal cries of undemocratic practices, and ban books that promote historical knowledge to avoid unnecessary dissent.

ammo1662 · 6 months ago

> This "pay up for trade access" is similar to the tributary system of feudal China.

The two systems are fundamentally different. In the ancient Chinese tributary system, based on the principle of "厚往薄来" China's reciprocation had to exceed the value of the tribute, thereby providing tangible benefits to the tributary states. This practice even led to later restrictions on the frequency of tribute missions from certain countries