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Oh we are getting attacked constantly, that definitely didn't help, but a large portion of it was just thrashing from postgres not getting enough memory.

sorry for all the trouble. I would understand it if you still do, as I haven't been the best operator.

Hetzner. Honestly every provider was cheaper. I literally didn't find a single provider that was even close to as expensive as Vultr. You can look at Vultr's deploy page here (might need to be logged in for that). For 16GB of RAM on any product, the minimum cost is $80 a month. We were paying $120+.

It's honestly crazy how expensive Vultr is. The servers might have better processors, didn't really check that, but all our performance depends on RAM and cores, so none of that really matters.

Also was able to get 64GB of ECC RAM on Hetzner. No clue if Vultr provided that, but they don't list it anywhere.

Providers I looked at:

• Scaleway
• Hetzner
• Contabo
• Netcup
• OVH
• Space Hosting
• I think one more, but can't remember it right now.

our black cat once ran under the ladder of a bunk bed, crashed into a mirror leaning against the wall, causing it to fall against a shelf and knock a salt shaker off (we were in college, gotta keep your food stuff in your room and whatnot). The mirror crashed to the floor and broke. We didn't believe in curses and that fully cemented that belief for us.

I'm honestly astounded at how many people are suggesting Mint. I recently switched full time to linux and even as a software dev, Mint has to be one of the worst experiences I've had with a computer. Not only driver issues, but software issues and general buginess. Along with being butt-ugly, I do not think any windows user is going to confuse Mint for Windows.

I switched my wife to Bazzite (not necessarily recommending that) and she literally didn't notice it was a different operating system (even though I told her it was and walked her through it). Bazzite has a nice UI for installing pretty much anything a normie would be thinking to install. The only issue we've had so far is that Dropbox just outright does not work on it. I've filed a bug with them and have been awaiting a response from their dev team for like two months now. I'm sure they'll fix it eventually, but if you need the Dropbox UI (you can use rsync otherwise) then don't choose Bazzite.

As for myself, after trying out like 6 different OSes, I settled on CachyOS. There are still issues, but it's pretty dang stable and they're very fast to fix issues. It's not for a person not willing to touch a terminal at least once though.

There are flying rates for owls, like the barn owl is 80 km/h. Flying from NA to Europe wouldn’t even take more than 100 hours (60 from Boston to Lisbon), so with that it would mean the bird would be spending 3kW of energy, which is just nonsensical.

All birds have a kJ/d amount, and even with a huge multiplier you wouldn’t come anywhere near the amount in the meme.

all they need to do is get you to install a sketchy browser extension and then anytime you generate a password on ddg they've captured it. No man in the middle necessary. Unlike generating a pw with your pw manager, then inserting it with your pw manager or just typing it into the field (which shouldn't be accessible to extensions on any appropriately coded site).

There's a few hundred that migrate from eastern NA to Europe and Africa, but no owls. Owls don't really migrate at all. I did all the calculations in a different comment in this thread and the shitpost is so off it's incredibly easy to disprove.

https://outdoors.stackexchange.com/a/15688 https://datazone.birdlife.org/flyway/factsheet/east-atlantic

It is falsifiable, just from a basic bird standpoint. Energy usage and flight speed is listed on allaboutbirds.org and you can calculate the rest just from knowing how birds work (for one, owls don't really migrate at all, though there are of course exceptions with everything in bird world).

The barn owl (the most common owl on the planet) weighs max 700g (listed on Table 1 here https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/species/brnowl/cur/appearance#meas but you need a subscription). So like 1.5 lbs.

Birds don’t really migrate east/west, and owls hardly migrate at all, and only a few species, not really barn owls. I’m not sure if there is an owl that migrates like that but even if it was true, tiny ruby throated hummingbirds migrate nonstop across the gulf. Weight doesn’t really matter.

Kilowatt is a rate of energy, not an amount. So let’s calculate that. And energy use in owls is documented on birds of the world as well. Flight speed is 80 km/h https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/species/brnowl/cur/behavior#locom

Energy use is 360.4 kJ/d, let’s triple that for continual flight across the ocean (idk I’m just making that up since this is all fake anyway), so 1081.2, we’ll round up to 1100.

Estimates of daily food consumption rates are limited. One captive female consumed a mean of 60.5 g/d over one year, amounting to 10.1% of her mass daily; consumption varied from 46.4 g/d in the warmest periods to 74.0 g/d in the coldest times (147). Two American Barn Owl consumed a mean of 74.1 g/d over a 10 d trial in August; it was estimated that energy use was 360.4 kJ/d (148). Other measures of daily food intake for wild American Barn Owl estimated from pellet contents range from 110 g/d in summer in Colorado (113) to a mean of 150 g/d over 1 yr in California (149). The mean gross energy intake for 4 (1 female, 3 males) sedentary American Barn Owl was 68.9 kcal/d; mean existence energy was 54.6 kcal/d, resulting in 79.3% efficiency in food utilization (150).

I just measured across from Massachusetts to Portugal, around 3000 mi or 4800 km. About 60 hours, so 1100 kJ/24h / 24/h x 60 h = 2750kJ = 657265.774 Calorie.

So yeah, very fake.

The HN comments are full of people discussing how to get around the software. This is why it costs so much to run programming.dev. People that think the cost of information should be free and that anyone they want info from should bear the cost of giving them that info.

with fzf you get better grep with fuzzy search