Comment Re:I just forward emails (Score 1) 69
You are pulling mail into Gmail from a POP3 server, right?
Not pulling mail from Gmail via POP3?
Comment Re: Never understood how one was expected to contr (Score 1) 108
From the user's point if view they get down votes and no hint as to why. If they make the mistake of asking, it just attracts more down votes.
Down votes are unrecoverable. Even if the answer is fixed, very few people come back to undo their vote.
Many highly up voted questions are closed due to being "off topic" or "duplicates" (they aren't). Many up voted answers are terrible or flat out wrong.
Comment Re:Frank Herbert pointed this out WAY back in 1965 (Score 1) 91
Power attracts the weak too. They want the power that being a low level part of the government gives them, because they have none.
Comment Re:I just forward emails (Score 1) 69
Can't you use IMAP?
Comment Re:wow ... (Score 1) 69
This doesn't affect them. This is Gmail contacting a POP3 server to pull mail into Gmail.
Comment Re:Users should (Score 1) 22
I've been trying out ChatGPT for GDPR complaints. It's actually not bad.
Comment Re:Oh come on (Score 1) 22
The name Optimus has been sullied by Michael Bay movies and Musk's shitty robots. Strange choice.
Comment Re:No. Just better mileage (Score 1) 136
EVs have massively less brake wear because most braking is regen, not friction.
Then there is the whole cooling system too. Radiator, fluids, pump. Fuel pump and filter too.
It's not just the cost either, it's the hassle and time wasted getting it done. You can include diversions to get fuel too, since you can't make it at home.
Comment Re:833 of These... (Score 1) 171
Have you actually been to Europe with an EV? France, for example, is great. Loads of chargers, no effort. There is a guy on YouTube who does regular trips from the UK to Italy in a budget used EV and has no issues, if you want to see forn yourself.
Sorry but your country is apparently shit tier when it comes to infrastructure.
Submission + - Supercritical CO2 Generators Now In Production
cusco writes: https://kdwalmsley.substack.co...
Chinese engineers deployed the world's first commercially viable sCO2 power generators, at a steel mill in Guizhou.
The Supercritical Carbon Dioxide (sCO2) generator converts waste heat into electricity. Compared to traditional steam and thermal systems, the sCO2 design is more than 85% more efficient, and produces 50% more electricity. . .
SCO2 is supercritical carbon dioxide. CO2 that’s maintained in a state above critical temperature and pressure, which is over 31 degrees Celsius and 1070 psi. Once there, CO2 acts both as a liquid and as a gas, and in industrial applications, that becomes very useful. As a gas, there is less resistance, and as a liquid, it provides greater thrust. And, turning CO2 into supercritical CO2 is more energy efficient than turning water into steam. . .
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Not everyone is as optimistic. Long article which assumes the Chinese will be sloppy with implementation for some reason.
https://cleantechnica.com/2026...
Experience with hydrogen suggests that expecting seals to remain effectively perfect over many years of continuous high pressure operation is absurdly optimistic, and there is little reason to assume supercritical CO systems will escape a similar long term reality. . .
Chinese engineers deployed the world's first commercially viable sCO2 power generators, at a steel mill in Guizhou.
The Supercritical Carbon Dioxide (sCO2) generator converts waste heat into electricity. Compared to traditional steam and thermal systems, the sCO2 design is more than 85% more efficient, and produces 50% more electricity. . .
SCO2 is supercritical carbon dioxide. CO2 that’s maintained in a state above critical temperature and pressure, which is over 31 degrees Celsius and 1070 psi. Once there, CO2 acts both as a liquid and as a gas, and in industrial applications, that becomes very useful. As a gas, there is less resistance, and as a liquid, it provides greater thrust. And, turning CO2 into supercritical CO2 is more energy efficient than turning water into steam. . .
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Not everyone is as optimistic. Long article which assumes the Chinese will be sloppy with implementation for some reason.
https://cleantechnica.com/2026...
Experience with hydrogen suggests that expecting seals to remain effectively perfect over many years of continuous high pressure operation is absurdly optimistic, and there is little reason to assume supercritical CO systems will escape a similar long term reality. . .
Comment Re:now do putin (Score 1) 176
again, what war did it prevent? Korea? Vietnam? Iraq/Iran? USSR Afghanistan? Serbia? USA/ Afghanustan? USA / Iraq? USA / Panama thing? ruzzia (permanent UN security council member) Ukraine in 2014? in 2022? Constant attacks on Israel by every mofo piece of shit islamist state out there, pkus hamas, hezbollah?
World war 3 (nucleat kind?) is prevented not by the antisemites in UN but by the promise of MAD. Everything else is happening all the time. It is a pathetic joke and needs to be abolished.
Comment Re:Also more prevalent in large corporations (Score 2) 91
I suspect it's actually a lot higher in the higher levels of management:
"In a study published by the journal Psychology, Crime and Law, Belinda Board and Katarina Fritzon tested 39 senior managers and chief executives from leading British businesses(3). They compared the results to the same tests on patients at Broadmoor special hospital, where people who have been convicted of serious crimes are incarcerated. On certain indicators of psychopathy, the bossesâ(TM)s scores either matched or exceeded those of the patients. In fact on these criteria they beat even the subset of patients who had been diagnosed with psychopathic personality disorders. "
https://www.monbiot.com/2011/1...
Submission + - Namecheap takes down domain hosting video archives of Israeli war crimes (neosmart.net)
Devar writes: Namecheap.com, the popular domain name and webhosting platform, has taken over the Genocide.live domain name, which was home to a publicly accessible archive of over 16,000 videos documenting alleged Israeli war crimes, the vast majority of which were recorded since the onset of the war on Gaza in late 2023. The archive, formerly known as TikTokGenocide, was previously submitted as “evidence on the State of Israel’s acts of genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza” by the South African UN delegation to the United Nations Security Council in February of 2025 and is also included in ongoing court proceedings of the International Court of Justice case South Africa (et. al.) v. Israel.
Submission + - China's "artificial sun" just broke a fusion limit scientists thought was unbrea (sciencedaily.com)
alternative_right writes: Researchers using China’s “artificial sun” fusion reactor have broken through a long-standing density barrier in fusion plasma. The experiment confirmed that plasma can remain stable even at extreme densities if its interaction with the reactor walls is carefully controlled. This finding removes a major obstacle that has slowed progress toward fusion ignition.
Submission + - Everyday chemicals are quietly damaging beneficial gut bacteria (sciencedaily.com)
alternative_right writes: A large study has revealed that dozens of widely used chemicals can damage beneficial gut bacteria. Many of these substances, found in pesticides and everyday industrial products, were never thought to affect living organisms at all. When gut bacteria are stressed by these chemicals, some may also become resistant to antibiotics.
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