There are videos on Bilibili, and maybe also on Youtube, showing flag bearing horse riders in traditional garb riding in the snow. They were either sending off or welcoming return of a bus load of medical personnel supporting the Covid fight in Wuhan. I think the riders were from Inner Mongolia. Anyone has links to the videos?
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I got the location and the event wrong, and it was cold enough so maybe they weren't in traditional garb, but yes this is what I was thinking of! Thanks!
Does anyone know how Twitter's recommendations algorithm works, and how to manipulate it? I only follow PLA watchers, Chinese accounts and like tweets posting PLA and other military stuff.
But for some goddamned reason, the recommendations in my feed keeps spamming me with legit Indian propaganda tweets(Funnily, almost all the Indian accounts have the same Indian flag design as their profile pic). I keep clicking 'not interested' every time, but it keeps getting worse and worse and now I'm flooded with more of the crap.
Jesus christ, I just want them to show the relevant 10% of those recommendations, not the other 90%. Is there a solution to this?
But for some goddamned reason, the recommendations in my feed keeps spamming me with legit Indian propaganda tweets(Funnily, almost all the Indian accounts have the same Indian flag design as their profile pic). I keep clicking 'not interested' every time, but it keeps getting worse and worse and now I'm flooded with more of the crap.
Jesus christ, I just want them to show the relevant 10% of those recommendations, not the other 90%. Is there a solution to this?
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There are probably a lot of Indians that frequently view PLA accounts
Also, I wouldn't put it past twitter to have 'tweaked' the algorithm to bump up those Indian accounts, for well known reasons.
Almost 100% what's going on
I actually think they would bump up those accounts because it's easy to get ad clicks
Even if CPC (cost per click) is lower in India, the volume must make up for it.
Does somebody know if Titanium aluminides, mostly γ-TiAl and TiAl³, have been used lately in more engineering solutions?
I know GE used them in their GEnx and GE9X for low pressure turbine blades.
Titanium aluminides are very light weight, with 4.0g/cm³ (TiAl³ has 3.4g/cm³) almost ceramics level of lightness (in contrast pureTitanium has 4.5g/cm³ ), have resistance to heat (up to 1000 C°) and favourable mechanical properties similar to metal alloys.
I have been pondering, M777 towed howitzer praises itself always for being very lightweight, I wonder if using γ-TiAl or TiAl³ in some parts instead of Titanium alloys or steel can work out to make it even lighter.
I know GE used them in their GEnx and GE9X for low pressure turbine blades.
Titanium aluminides are very light weight, with 4.0g/cm³ (TiAl³ has 3.4g/cm³) almost ceramics level of lightness (in contrast pureTitanium has 4.5g/cm³ ), have resistance to heat (up to 1000 C°) and favourable mechanical properties similar to metal alloys.
I have been pondering, M777 towed howitzer praises itself always for being very lightweight, I wonder if using γ-TiAl or TiAl³ in some parts instead of Titanium alloys or steel can work out to make it even lighter.
Can we start a Chinese IT industry thread? I think we can have some good discussions. I also have a couple of questions, recently Cloudflare banned kiwifarms, after previously banning storefront and 8chan. Wayback machine also deleted kiwifarms stuff. I remember Wayback machine also deleting news about biden laptop and election fraud during the election. During the war in Russia, RT and other russian websites was DDOSed and finally came back with russian company DDOS-guard. These companies provide a critical service, especially in modern information warfare age.
I'm wondering does China have any major CDN/ddos protection companies and does China have archive sites like wayback machine or archive.ph .
I'm wondering does China have any major CDN/ddos protection companies and does China have archive sites like wayback machine or archive.ph .
That would be a really interesting thread, in my professional life i work with the Microsoft azure cloud services and every once in a while i go to their planetary view of their cloud infrastructure and i'm always amazed how a company could gather that much infrastructure globally.
I have seen the same kind of overview from google and AWS.
It kind of makes me wonder how far a long are Chinese cloud provider, never have i seen an Alibaba or a Huawei cloud engineer here in Europe for example or on linkedin.
This is the azure infrastructure site i'm talking about.
I'm fairly certain Huawei and Alibaba have cloud servers on every continent, but probably not as much as AWS, Google and Microsoft.