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New comment by golemiprague in "Show HN: Bible translated using LLMs from source Greek and Hebrew"

golemiprague — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 19:19:10 +0000

How was the tranlation for the chapters in Aramaic, like in Daniel?

New comment by golemiprague in "BYD's cheapest electric cars to have Lidar self-driving tech"

golemiprague — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 22:03:25 +0000

Some companies work on reducing the size of it so manufacturers will be able to put it inside the car behind the mirror. Innoviz is one example https://techtime.news/2025/11/14/innoviz-27/

New comment by golemiprague in "ICE is using facial-recognition technology to quickly arrest people"

golemiprague — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 06:50:08 +0000

But china is safe and clean and nice, so it might be worth it. Anyway we got no privacy anymore, cameras are everywhere and we all captured on someone hard disk, so might as well take advantage of the benefits that comes with this technology

New comment by golemiprague in "An opinionated critique of Duolingo"

golemiprague — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 21:13:06 +0000

Those two languages are very close, if he had to learn Japanese or Arabic he won't be able to do it.

New comment by golemiprague in "Electricity prices are climbing more than twice as fast as inflation"

golemiprague — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 23:10:59 +0000

The problem is that in the west green energy became a religion while in China it was just a practical solution when it made sense. They didn't have a problem to build a coal based facility or a sun based facility, depends on the needs and cost. Now that green energy makes more sense, naturally they ustilise more of it. In the west though it was all about doom's day predictions, culture wars and cancelations. So it all became a religion war rather than a mere technical consideration.

New comment by golemiprague in "DOGE worker’s code supports NLRB whistleblower"

golemiprague — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 22:14:18 +0000

I don't see anything wrong with what they did, they basically got admin accounts so they can peak into the system and used some libraries from github. What is the problem here? Got a feeling it is just politically motivated, people are not happy that the Trump administration is actually doing something to make systems more efficient and stop money waste of tax payers. I am sure they will make some mistakes along the way and I am sure not every "saving" is actually saving but when you look at so many systems and so much money some errors are expected.

New comment by golemiprague in "The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE"

golemiprague — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 20:23:24 +0000

Why those funds were allocated to their ops and not equally to everybody? If those government organisations were serving only one side of the political spectrum than something is inherently wrong with it.

New comment by golemiprague in "Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals"

golemiprague — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 21:09:26 +0000

Certainly food and cars is not more expensive than most European countries. Health insurance is also not that much expensive, it is only the way you pay it which in Europe is by tax. There is the issue of not being covered if you don't have a job but that's has nothing to do with price. The US is one of the cheapest countries in the world with pretty decent salaries and endless variation in house prices, there also always cheaper cities or alternative states. Try that in Europe or Australia or Canada, good luck.

New comment by golemiprague in "Is the attack helicopter dead?"

golemiprague — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 23:36:19 +0000

Hardly any war is symmetric, even when it is in a large sense there are differences in various theaters and specific battle situations. Sometimes you just need both as we can see in Israel which have every technology possible and yet wants to buy more Apache helicopters and Vulcans for air defence, two technologies they thought they will not need anymore

New comment by golemiprague in "The best $4 ever spent"

golemiprague — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 23:16:24 +0000

Japan is genius when it comes to implementing those simple things that kids like. Like putting little shallow water areas in playground, all kind of mechanical things and variety of playgrounds from all types dotted all over the city, some would considered to be "dangerous" in the west. There are ones where kids can even light fires and play with working tools or cook. There are theme parks all based on various playgrounds without any electricity driven rides. You can also stamp a special kids book in train stations and even places where kids can act play in various adult "jobs" like cashier or mechanic or whatever. My kids had so much fun at those places, much more than in Disney, although they enjoyed it too.

New comment by golemiprague in "Backlash over Amazon's return to office comes as workers demand higher wages"

golemiprague — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 19:06:10 +0000

The advantage of working from home was that you could take care of kids and do all the housework, this worth thousands of dollars per months. For years companies didn't adjust salaries in accordance to inflation and the cost of outsourcing kids care and house care, all that while keeping interest rate low and bailing rich bankers with printing of money. This caused funneling of wealth from the workers to asset holders which increased house and stock prices rather than creating new actual wealth or GDP per capita while destroying almost every class of society except the 1 percenters who became richer. It is about time the system will balance itself otherwise the western world will go back to de facto feudalism.

New comment by golemiprague in "Why doesn't advice work?"

golemiprague — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 23:09:04 +0000

When you say spouse do you mean a male or female spouse? because the patterns of communication are very different between the two genders.

New comment by golemiprague in "Google-Wiz deal fizzles out, company will pursue IPO"

golemiprague — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 08:29:32 +0000

From the explanation here it sounds completely opposite concept, they download the server and check it rather than doing the checks on production environment

New comment by golemiprague in "Initial details about why CrowdStrike's CSAgent.sys crashed"

golemiprague — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 02:23:52 +0000

But how come they didn't catch it in the testing deployments? what was the difference that caused it to happen when they deployed to the outside world. I find it hard to believe that they didn't test it before deployment. I also think companies should all have a testing environment before deploying 3rd party components. I mean, we all install some packages during development that fails or cause some problems but nobody think it is a good idea to do it directly in their production environment before testing, so how is this different?

New comment by golemiprague in "Almost 30% of Americans Say College Not Worth It in Pew Poll"

golemiprague — Fri, 24 May 2024 08:01:47 +0000

Some degrees are worth it and some are not. The ones that don't should focus more on funneling a small pool of talented students to research and higher degrees in order to expand human knowledge rather than having hoards of students doing a degree just for the sake of having a degree

New comment by golemiprague in "Software engineering salaries come from one of three budgets"

golemiprague — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 22:13:43 +0000

Many companies has the last two intermixed, some devision create support software for the business and some create value generating software. Think about a bank, creating the system for the back office is not the same as creating the HFT system. Sometimes consulting and in house product is also intermixed. In short, the distinctions are correct but it is not about the organisation, more about the division in this organisation.

New comment by golemiprague in "I face investigation for terrorism"

golemiprague — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 02:20:56 +0000

Judea and Samaria (aka west bank) were part of the land promised to the Jews by the league of nations in the San Remo convention, which is binding by international law and originally also included Jordan. Considering the Arabs have never agreed to the partition plan of 1948 it is well within Israel right to contest this area and the common definition of "occupied territories" is not that clear cut considering no country owned it before 1967.

The settlements themselves don't displace any Arabs from their home, they were built either on Jewish land (Jews lived in Judea and Samaria until 1948) or on a land which didn't have a specific ownership. Usually if an Arab can show that they have ownership for a parcel of land they will get it in court.

In any case, Gaza is not occupied and except from the hostages there are no Jews in Gaza. They could live peacefully side by side near Israel without any "siege" if only they accepted that Israel should have a right to exist.

New comment by golemiprague in "Does Market Timing Work?"

golemiprague — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 05:50:00 +0000

The problem in Australia is that they still tax you if you rent your house to someone and then use the money to rent for yourself. So if you need to move or change house size you must sell and buy. However if you buy an investment house you can get tax deduction on the interest of the mortgage. They basically tax people with one house but give deductions to people with multiple houses.

New comment by golemiprague in "Most demographers now predict that human population will plateau"

golemiprague — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 03:01:41 +0000

Why have your cake and eat it? It gives more people from poor countries to experience Japan and earn money there. Then they come back and have money to open businesses and more knowledge and exposure to first world practices. It also distribute the opportunity between more people rather than giving everything to few lucky ones while the rest don't get any opportunity to improve their lives. It also prevents all the obvious problems of integration and fractured society which affects second generation immigrants in many western countries. It's a win win situation for everybody.

New comment by golemiprague in "Web scraping for me, but not for thee"

golemiprague — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 20:59:48 +0000

It is partly due to the crazy litigation in the US and the rewards people get for some coffee they spill on themselves just because the coffee was "too hot". There are two sides to this story and it is not only the business' owners who are the culprits here.