It gives "D is not a function". This on Firefox 146. Various extensions including Ublock Origin but that doesn't seem to cause it. Also doesn't work in a private window.
> Productive and innovative businesses with really solid fundamentals (balance sheets) that were acquired and dismantled by PE.
You have way too much (unneeded) limiting qualifications. In Netherlands PE have bought loads of companies, then put the acquisition price as a loan on the balance sheet. Plus then sold the assets, made the company then lease those assets. Then those companies often went bankrupt as the leasing prices increased crazily.
> I would argue that moribund businesses who maintain a competitive moat but are otherwise extremely unproductive and inefficient are the real blight on society.
The companies I've cited weren't "extremely unproductive and inefficient". Businesses can be profitable and healthy without all the qualifications you think they need.
> The heat pumps I have seen personally in Europe are geothermal, very big, and very expensive.
In NL I saw loads of water/water heat pumps (so using geothermal) in plans for new buildings. The latest plans now seem to prefer air/water. The air/water is cheaper and the units nowadays are much quieter than they used to be. This is just my observations, I could be way off.
> I hear a lot of horror stories from the UK about this, that people pay upwards of £500
£500 for what? Total cost for a month? A year? The monthly average of a full year of costs. The monthly average cost thing is common in NL; people often have no clue other than knowing the monthly average cost. And it's often estimated beforehand by the energy company. It's assumed to be correct.
Anyway, people need to check the SCOP instead of figuring out if it is efficient (COP) at a certain temperature.
> On that note I think biopropane will be the solution for Europe.
Oh please no.
On UK, I was in Scotland. I thought the homes in NL are often terrible quality. Scotland was another level. Pretty much no insulation, terrible windows. Really drafty. Yet the media (as a result the public as well) hates the "Insulate Britain" movement.
I've quickly skimmed the discussion on fedora-devel regarding btrfs. I wondered mainly how they'd handle the various cases where btrfs does not work well, e.g. files that change often inline (databases, VMs, etc). Apparently an application can tell to treat those files differently. So it's basically a matter of fixing various software to work nicely with btrfs as well as any similar filesystem.
As mentioned in the thread, openSUSE already uses btrfs for loads of years. I do wonder why it isn't more supported by upstream software (postgres, VM things, etc).
I was also surprised how good the discussion was on fedora-devel. It seems that people didn't break into camps of "over my dead body", and "if we do not do this I'll leave", etc. It seemed more like a "this is my really thought out proposal, but is it actually feasible or did I forget anything". Then people raised problems, sometimes the proposer(s) already had a solution, sometimes it was something they didn't think of. What's nice is that despite seeing various problems everyone seemed to understand that people are trying to improve things.
I didn't read fedora-devel for many years so that was a welcome change over the past.
> This guy was only talking about people significantly behind on their projects, for what it is worth.
What difference does that make? If people are behind they're behind. There should be a discussion, not an "work overtime" response. I want to think I'm valued and not just blamed if things aren't going smoothly.
I don't agree on the assumption that the total number of hours is a given. If you're working on something 70+ days per week for an entire year, your productivity is going to drop. If you work less, but are refreshed when you start working, you'll be way more productive. Especially if it requires any amount of thinking.