fratlas

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by fratlas 8mo ago
Nudies jeans are worth the premium (ish) price, and have lifetime free repairs. Extremely comfortable too. Going on 5 years in my current pair
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by fratlas 2y ago
Pexels is still very free, and seems to be high quality.
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by fratlas 2y ago
People want to spend less time on a task. Whichever tool succeeds at this will win.
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by fratlas 2y ago
just use a canva template
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by fratlas 2y ago
Canva left the buy once affinity model untouched, and are an ethical company.
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by fratlas 2y ago
They're a desperate company on the decline
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by fratlas 2y ago
Try Canva whiteboards. You can embed an inf canvas into slides
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by fratlas 2y ago
True, but consider grid electricity prices increasing over those decades too.
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by fratlas 3y ago
I don't think that prevents people from bootstrapping a great product
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by fratlas 3y ago
I mean, TikTok and ChatGPT came up extremely quickly. BeReal grew rapidly. People can and still do build disruptive software.
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by fratlas 3y ago
This is so underrated. There's a huge need for a better Yelp
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by fratlas 4y ago
Not true as of late - there is a construction slowdown, so even lower grade houses in rural areas with no services are going for unattainable prices. 700k for Albury is insane. We have a supply issue.
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by fratlas 4y ago
Maybe the solution is to look for problems where human's imperfections are identifiable
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by fratlas 4y ago
> you lost out on a literal once in a lifetime opportunity I don't think anyone can make claims like this, lots of people made the right decision by not buying into an inflated market with job instability around the corner. I think
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Ask HN: Is OpenAI working on the next DALL-E yet?
1 points by fratlas 4y ago|0 comments
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by fratlas 4y ago
In my experience it was less emotional than in person auctions I've attended. I knew my limit and stuck to it, there was no agent talking me into bidding higher.
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by fratlas 4y ago
There are new systems to bid online, and over the course of a week. Much less stressful, no emotion and heat of the moment bidding. Nothing wrong with open bidding, all about the techniques used in person.
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by fratlas 4y ago
A designed process, very efficient at extracting the maximum price out of a stressful situation. It's a sad state of affairs in Australia right now.
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by fratlas 5y ago
Would you be comfortable doing an intro? Looking for this exact skillset for an ambitious project
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by fratlas 5y ago
Yes, the x264 params are all useful. It's selecting the optimal combination for a given use case that presents a challenge. Vimeo's video quality (and therefore filesize) is much higher than FBs, because their use cases are comple
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by fratlas 5y ago
I spent about 1-2 years on this, built a ML model. Pretty deep problem, there's no clear winner in terms of OSS software to do this.
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by fratlas 5y ago
How'd you convince someone to let you?
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by fratlas 5y ago
Small, but some growing/large tech companies. Canva, and SafetyCulture are probably the highest growth, Atlassian is already public and doing very well. Google has a Sydney office, Uber has some engineers scattered around. Hopefully th
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by fratlas 6y ago
Ex PM Kevin Rudd calls for royal commission into Murdochs media empire[1], overwhelming response causes gov petition site to go down. 1: https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/kevin-rudd-creates-p...
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Royal commission petition into Australian media corruption DDoS's Gov(aph.gov.au)
2 points by fratlas 6y ago|1 comments
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by fratlas 6y ago
Is this not timing the market? How do you calculate what is "high" and "low" - rolling average increasing 7% per year, compare current price to that expectation?
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by fratlas 6y ago
What made you do it?
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Helicopter removes ‘Into the Wild’ bus that lured travelers to their deaths(alaskapublic.org)
1 points by fratlas 6y ago|0 comments
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by fratlas 6y ago
And a variable fan depending on your speed? :P
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by fratlas 6y ago
Like all things in life, it's about balance so you don't become accustomed. Can't wait for the day I only have to cook when I want to; because automated, healthy, home-cooked meals are possible.

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