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  • Eagle0110@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Do people who can read Chinese, Japanese and other non latin scripts use a bigger font size?English
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    4 days ago

    As someone who also speaks Chinese natively and have additionally seriously studied classical Chinese and used to read historical documents and books, no not at all.

    I always have Chinese text in the same font size as English, never found myself in need of adjusting the font size at all.

    However, I am studying German and I do sometimes finding myself wanting to enlarge the font a bit, even though it’s the mostly the same Latin script as English.

    I think ultimately it depends on how familiar you are with the script, once you are sufficiently familiar you only ever need to be parsing a part of the script when you’re reading it, at least most of the time and in daily uses, so glyph stroke density is not in itself an issue.

    By the way if you find Chinese script looks cramped, look up the historical Tangut script! XD

  • Eagle0110@lemmy.worldtoToday I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL about powerships, special purpose ships on which a power plant is installed to serve as a power generation resource until a local power plant is built or until high demand in power supply is overEnglish
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    20 days ago

    This would have been a great idea on paper, but unfortunately it’s not really possible in practice, because unlike the Chinese and Russian civilian nuclear power ships, nuclear powered military vessels typically have weapon grade reactor fuel. Military vessels use nuclear power not just to give them infinite range, but to also give them the kind of sustained top speed that is significantly higher than what’s typically feasible with conventional power plants (especially so for submarines, which have to push through water, and aircraft carriers, which are really massive). So military vessels use weapon grade reactor fuel that have much higher uranium concentration to achieve the kind of power density that allows them to have such tremendously high sustained performance.

    And just think about the kind of regulatory and legal nightmares if anyone even thinks about trying to incorporate a power plant running on weapon grade nuclear fuel, into a civilian power grid LMAO.

    Or a practical example, many countries who don’t have their own nuclear arsenal (which is like the majority of countries by number), do not even legally allow a nuclear powered military vessel of any kind to sail within certain hundreds of nautical miles to their boarder, not even for peacetime refitting and provisioning, because of nuclear proliferation concerns and such.

    And in addition to that, because of the inherent risks involved in a military vessel running on weapons grade fuel, military ships have their reactors designed so that they require continuous control and operation from human operators, so that in the case when their human operators have become non-functional, as one could always expect in a terrible artificial disaster that is called warfare, these reactors would guarentee to shut down themselves automatically and safely, so they don’t have a chance to just randomly turn into unreachable nuclear disasters in deep ocean. Because of this, their operational cost is much much higher than a commercial nuclear power plant that’s designed to keep running, for the same amount of power they can generate, and that’s not even counting the significantly more expensive refueling cost from higher concentration fuel yet.