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lbotos

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About lbotos

Art lover in NYC.

Currently Director, Support Engineering - GitLab (YC W15).

Previously at One Month (YC13), Linode (acquired by Akamai).

Work: lee at gitlab.com

Personal: find.creativity at leematos.com

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48899474

    fair enough -- dunno what domains telegram uses

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    Comment #48899309

    I think you misunderstood -- OP is running op-s-domain.com/telegramchat -> redirect t.me. They updated op-s-domain.com/telegramchat -> redirect telegram.me.

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    Comment #48644272

    Huh? “Get off your high horse” is the phrase I flipped because I was grandstanding. What phrase are you referencing?

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    Comment #48637675

    I wanted more control and no UI. The commercial ones do that -- I think this was like $150 more than the "samsung smart ui" one... Never seeing a smart TV interface was worth that …

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    Comment #48637576

    I'll get on my high horse and say you can get solid "DID/Commercial" TVs for not that much more: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1788343-REG/samsung_q... I got this a few mo…

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    Comment #48630841

    I..... love the idea, but if you aren't from a Shengen country you can't get into Shengen countries without a fingerprint scan and a face photo at the airport: https://travel-europ…

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    Comment #48107550

    Git is not designed to handle 1000s of clones and merges to a single repo in minute scale even. Sure, you are right. Git allows you to keep distributed state and eventually reconci…

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    Comment #48107402

    I wholeheartedly disagree. Git has always been one of the biggest perf bottlenecks inside of the product. First for any scaled deploy we recommended NFS. We were young and dumb and…

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    Comment #47779412

    aphyr may have some NSFW photos on the site IIRC which may have got the domain swept up with the new UK laws.

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    Comment #47116336

    Do you own property? Does it flood? Do you live in a place where a rapidly forming storm may cause flooding? I was weather-status neutral until I bought a house that has flooding c…

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    Comment #46621154

    Feels like v2 of this will be “ducted” in that it lives next to your air handler and comes on when you are circulating air. (Like a reef tank sterilizer)

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    Comment #46558952

    the article talked about how the sendgrid accounts are real, and presume compromised. I suspect that once the sendgrid account is compromised, they then send out these phishing ema…

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    Comment #46558916

    How do you envision this working without the "opposing party" poisoning the vote to get a weaker opponent?

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    Comment #46448558

    100% right. I buy lots of Japanese cookbooks secondhand. I found an Okinawa cook book for $8. When I received it, it was clear the author was just a content farmer pumping out vari…

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    Comment #46437531

    I came here to fight you but there are some low end boxes with lots of ram and disk for pretty cheap! Found this as an example: https://lowendbox.com/blog/black-friday-bytehosting-…

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    Comment #46391951

    Eng Director here: 100% True. And I'll take it a step further: > Ask this: “How does a project go from an idea to a ticket? Specifically, at what stage are engineers brought into t…

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    Comment #46377949

    Can also vouch for this ansible script. I just updated a very outdated homeserver, postgres, and switched from nginx to traefik, and it was extremely painless. I was dreading it, b…

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    Comment #46353593

    You don’t know anyone in your life that “talks big game? Or someone else that “can’t get their stuff together?” A lot of people never even “move”.

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    Comment #46350840

    Read GP again. > There are some out there who would love fans of Ruby on Rails to suffer because of its association with DHH. This isn’t about DHH spouting whatever he is spouting.…

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    Comment #46295206

    Elaborate? I’m not following.

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    Comment #46186654

    In the states if you are a contractor there are tons of things that you can deduct from your taxable income. So “figuring out how much you should be taxed” is after those deduction…

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    Comment #45926741

    right click -> inspect HTML looks pretty handwritten (lack of crazy css classes and simple structure) https://fi-le.net/css/tufte.css "> They are using tufte.css https://edwardtuft…

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    Comment #45842325

    FYI -- I vouched for you to undead this comment. It felt like a fine comment? I don't think you are shadowbanned but consider emailing the mods if you think you might me.

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    Comment #45699077

    What brand and was it sized for winter load? Im in NY, 6 heads across 3 floors with 2 heads per outdoor unit. 2500sf covered. Mitsubishi h2i (i think im on my phone). Get plenty wa…

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    Comment #45434260

    #customer-incident-channel Lbotos: okay @jane you are leading expert on problem y. Use this thread for your debugging until next sync Lbotos: @phil your up for rebooting all the ho…