bengkoang (u/bengkoang)

bengkoang commented on Windows 11 system components use the default browser to open links in Europe blogs.windows.com/windows... · Posted by u/pjerem

_fat_santa · 3 years ago

I have to ask a really basic question: Why does Microsoft have such a vested interest in users using Edge over competitors?

I get the argument: "it's their browser, of course they want people to use it" but for me that answer isn't satisfactory. What is the financial motive to go through all the trouble of pushing Edge? The only reason I can think of is "your data" but even then, what sort of data might MS want to extract from your browser that they can't get from the underlying OS?

bengkoang · 3 years ago

Just see chrome current intention now? What purpose they promote chrome crazily in the early days. It's to monopolize and becoming the dominant player which control how the policy of interneting favor to their ads activity

bengkoang commented on DALL·E now available in beta openai.com/blog/dall-e-no... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

bemmu · 4 years ago

I was supposed to be making a video game, but got a bit sidetracked when DALL·E came out and made this website on the side: http://dailywrong.com/ (yes I should get SSL).

It's like The Onion, but all the articles are made with GPT-3 and DALL·E. I start with an interesting DALL·E image, then describe it to GPT-3 and ask it for an Onion-like article on the topic. The results are surprisingly good.

bengkoang · 4 years ago

Try Auto-Install Free SSL plugin, it easy for me

bengkoang commented on WHO says Covid-19 pandemic is 'one big wave', not seasonal reuters.com/article/us-he... · Posted by u/stx

bengkoang · 6 years ago

They can't/won't acknowledge that Corona Virus is airborne transmission disease until its 5 month after its worldwide pandemic spread, yet they can predict that this is not seasonal pandemic, without sufficient data to support it.

bengkoang commented on Ask HN: How do you find time to learn new skills having family? · Posted by u/mac_was

lubujackson · 7 years ago

Dad of a 4 and 2 year old here. There is one effective way I have found: schedule it. Literally slot 2 hours on Thursday night to learn something you want.

There are a couple of reasons this helps. If you treat it as a serious and valuable use of your time you will be more efficient in how you approach it. Scheduling also lets you anticipate it and mentally prepare for being receptive to learning.

It is important to protect that time and get buy-in from your partner so you can fully shift gears out of parent-mode. The flip side of this is no staying up extra late to noodle around then be burnt out the next day. Accept that you are going to learn things slowly and it will stretch out much longer than you might like.

bengkoang · 7 years ago

I do this with my family too, the ones that really hard to accept is to learn things slowly, it's really demotivating. So in the end i switch learning 2-3 stuff to keep it interesting

bengkoang commented on Ask HN: Which books do you wish you'd read earlier in life? · Posted by u/arikr

graeme · 8 years ago

The Four Hour Workweek. It showed me:

1. How to make a business without "experience" 2. A model of how to make an automated business

Changed my life and led me to create a mostly automated business that is still going seven years on.

Note: this book often rubs people the wrong way, and requires caveats.

The four hours refers to maintenance work, in my interpretation. I could maintain my business on four hours. But, it would gradually atrophy. So, I grow it. But, with the liberty to take a lof of time off, when I want.

For those allergic to Tim Ferriss, Start Small, Stay Small by Rob Walling is an excellent read.

But, the four hour week was the book that hit me like a ton of bricks and changed the course of my life.

The business, if anyone is curious: https://lsathacks.com

bengkoang · 8 years ago

What it hit me the most is about what the worst thing that could happen if you try your venture, it blows my mind back then and it really boost my confidence. I'm guessing it's related to the author stoic perspective

bengkoang commented on Ask HN: What books have made the biggest impact on your mental models? · Posted by u/baran

bengkoang · 9 years ago

40 hours a week - tim ferris, this book, even though its dated and not applicable in my life, there's a chapter that really boost my confidence about what is the worse things that could happens, it really help me experimented with new stuff, break out my conservative mind, realize its ok to be weird and have made me perceive a different views on problems.