How would a true push (and not poll) method work, if all you have is the local thunderbird client? If I had to guess, the question from the other person is not related to mail poll/push stuff
Usually you rely on a server telling the mobile app that there's something new to poll (or the message is directly sent and displayed).
A TCP connection to the IMAP server is kept open, with the server sending a packet whenever anything interesting happens (see IMAP IDLE), waking up the client app. This is how all push notifications work nowadays, IIRC, since you can't send information directly to clients without a persistent connection, due to NAT.
The Balkans of 112 years ago did not look like the Balkans of today (for starters, Serbia no longer borders Turkey), and countries' spelling changes over time. For example, Turkey now desires that English-speaking people use Türkiye instead.
But maybe it's too much to ask of modern Americans to understand that spellings of proper nouns can and do change over time.
>An excerpt from a religious text with a trailing space:
>"I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, "
Followed by the deadpan sage advice:
>Don’t use actual excerpts from pre-existing works as your password.
IOW don't try this yourself unless you make up your own religion. Established scriptures of all other kinds have been completely compromised long ago ;)
Because electricity is difficult to store, but because of how the grid works you always have to generate exactly as much as is used. Not electricity generation fluctuates (obvious with wind and solar; all plants need maintenance; nuclear often has to shut down in the summer either because rivers don't carry enough water or are so hot that feeding warm cooling water back into them endangers fish). Demand also heavily fluctuates both over the course of a day and with the seasons.
Trading electricity over geographically large areas smoothes out some of these fluctuations and gives you more options to deal with planned outages
> nuclear often has to shut down in the summer either because rivers don't carry enough water or are so hot that feeding warm cooling water back into them endangers fish).
I don't believe this has much impact on Germany's export patterns: in fact, summer is usually the time scheduled maintenance is planned in France, because electricity usage is much lower during summer than during winter. So there's still a lot of wiggle room before France ends up being forced to import in the summer because of that phenomenon.
The main driver for import/export patterns are different consumer patterns (not all countries have the same daily load curve - for instance, France and Spain both benefit a lot from trading because France's peak use time is an hour ahead of Spain's) and renewables availability.
Say it's a super sunny day, Germany generates more solar power than they use themselves (Germans don't usually have aircon at home anyway), Poland is happy to import and use it since it's basically free since it has no input costs of fuel, so they can idle their coal plants and use less fuel. Now it turns to night and the sun goes down and Germany generates 0 solar power. Then they can import coal power from Poland.
Expand this over a whole content and you get flows of electricity between companies depending on how the grid interconnect loads look and the prices of the various power sources. If Polish coal costs more then French nuclear, then Germany can sell their cheap wind power to Poland for something in between polish coal costs and French nuclear costs, and then buy nuclear from France and pocket the difference. Assuming the grid interconnects can't handle Poland importing direct from France.
Again none of these examples are real, just an explanation of why you would want to trade electricity and why you have a big market like the EU power market.
If you look at the electricity map at various times of day or over a week, you'll see the import arrows flip direction depending on the weather and time of day.
The UK exports wind power at night, but imports power during the day. Scandinavia often exports hydro power.
Taxes on carbon emissions mean Poland will import green power if it's available, as it will be cheaper than burning their own coal.
I saw an asphalted road on the mountain ridge, along the E-3 hiking route, in a national reserve territory, with a EU funding sign saying that it was built "for the benefit of the local species".
The road leads to a chalet, and the only one who it benefits is the chalet's owner, making it easier for his drunkard customers to drive right to it on the weekends, with zero walking involved.
Such projects are EU funded but in fact implemented through national or regional programmes agreed by the regional authorities... So it's usually at that level that favouritism or corruption plays in.
The point is that the EU funders of course know this and turn a blind eye in order to keep the people in power in the regions supporting the EU. It's just how it has always been in Europe with vassals. Feudalism has always been the government of the old world, and will always be, and the people will always love it. Now get back to work so you can afford your rent or your mortgage. Funny how most all the ancestors of Europeans worked their whole life to pay the mortgage, yet it's still not paid!
The mass surveillance in question will likely lead not to an "everyone knows everyone" society like that in your story, but to a "the government and the big corporations know everyone" one.
I don't know, quality of modern life degrades after 30 for many of us. After living with chronic diseases for a decade or two, I kinda envy the hunter-gatherers.
Die quickly at 30, with 10 children and some grandchildren even. Sounds like mission accomplished to me.
I wouldn't say either is better "usually", it really depends on the situation.
If the next five words begin with the same prefix (happens to me), searching will be wasteful. Just spamming "w" is easier.
But when there's something really distinctive (often, punctuation) near the position I'm aiming for, I'll definitely use search.
That's one of the reasons I prefer BRE over ERE/PCRE when editing text interactively - I can search for punctuation in code without having to backslash-escape it.
Push support has been there for a long time now. You can enable it on a per-folder basis, check in Manage folders.