Hacker News: LordRatte

New comment by LordRatte in "Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time"

LordRatte — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 06:35:00 +0000

Why?

New comment by LordRatte in "Why I don't discuss politics with friends"

LordRatte — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 06:02:41 +0000

This article seems to be saying that religions are tribal by nature because it's made up of humans, and humans are tribal by nature -- ok fair enough. But the subtext I'm getting is that people in religions are less self-aware of it than the author or the people they admire.

People being more interested in comfortable beliefs rather than true beliefs has always been a concern throughout Biblical history. But that doesn't mean it never went unchallenged.

For instance, regardless of what you think of the Bible, it's interesting that Isaiah has the following to say to Judah (emphasis mine) because it shows an ever-present problem with human nature.

    For they are a rebellious people, lying children, children unwilling to hear the instruction of the Lord;
    *who say to the seers, “Do not see,” and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us what is right; speak to us smooth things, prophesy illusions”*

And before someone responds with a de jure objection to say that "the instruction of the Lord" is not looking for truth, I just want to make it clear that that is out of the scope of my point. My point is that, de facto, in the context, a religious text is agreeing that it is bad to "tribe-up and truth-out."

Lastly, on a personal note, as a human Christian, I think I have the same biases to groupthink as any other person because I am human. But because Christianity has a reputation, I have found that throughout my life, I've had to work harder to really test (not validate) my beliefs because I am constantly being challenged and, ironically, often ended up more informed about both my beliefs and my interlocutors' beliefs.

New comment by LordRatte in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)"

LordRatte — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 02:56:03 +0000

I am developing a dataset and research tool for Algebraic Structures.

https://j-stubbs.gitlab.io/algebraic_structures/

It's all very POC right now but the idea is to eventually add many improvements including documenting the Python API.

Show HN: Algebraic Structure Toolkit and Dataset

LordRatte — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 18:27:39 +0000

Half code library and dataset; half reference resource and teaching tool.

I have been working on this project for a few months to encode and visualise Abstract Algebra structures. The broad goal is that it will encourage more accessible ways of researching and cataloguing Abstract Algebra without sacrificing rigour.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43474308

Points: 1

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Ask HN: Startup founder to full-time employee

LordRatte — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 14:52:57 +0000

I will soon be starting a full-time job after having run a startup for the last decade.

The first thing I am trying to plan for is I don't want the rigidity of office life to be a shock and cause burnout. I know going from being my own boss to having a boss will be hard but I am looking for hacks to manage it.

Secondly, I am going to have a lot less free time. How would you cut down/manage your swathes of hobbies to fit into your new limited free time?

I have high functioning ADD and usually manage to fudge my time management requirements to get by, but this may require a crowd sourced solution.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42757491

Points: 2

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The English Esoteric Programming Language

LordRatte — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 10:11:39 +0000

Article URL: https://esolangs.org/wiki/English

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42181815

Points: 31

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New comment by LordRatte in "418 I'm a Teapot"

LordRatte — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 12:44:59 +0000

Honestly doesn't sound like a problem at all in the greater scheme of things.

New comment by LordRatte in "How I Experience Web Today (2021)"

LordRatte — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 09:06:04 +0000

Did you see both screenshots or are you referring to a 2nd link I should click?

New comment by LordRatte in "How I Experience Web Today (2021)"

LordRatte — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 03:50:50 +0000

https://imgur.com/a/NwhwnsZ

This is all I see.

I take it that my ad blocking plugins and security settings are working then.

New comment by LordRatte in "Families Are Going into Debt for Disney Vacations"

LordRatte — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 05:17:24 +0000

Gated articles are really ruining this side for me.

New comment by LordRatte in "Show HN: Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?"

LordRatte — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 04:49:58 +0000

When I was in the 5th grade, I learnt useful things like the metric system.

New comment by LordRatte in "Aramaic original New Testament theory"

LordRatte — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 20:11:57 +0000

Peter Williams has some well presented evidence on how the NT (or at least relevant parts) had to originally be in Greek. Namely how things like the alliteration in the beatitudes could not have ended up like they did going from Aramaic to Greek by coincidence.

New comment by LordRatte in "Chernobyl, 200 Exhausted Staff Toil Round the Clock at Gunpoint"

LordRatte — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 09:13:55 +0000

It seems like there are a lot more paywall-type posts around here these days. It may just be my opinion but I started using Hacker News because the atmosphere felt less stifling than "traditional" outlets and sites. I wonder how they will keep up their underground persona if most of the posts end up pointing to regular news sites anyway.

New comment by LordRatte in "Strangest Sorting Algorithms"

LordRatte — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 07:44:20 +0000

Yes. Because this isn't the response you were hoping for. It could go wrong so it did.

New comment by LordRatte in "Accidentally Turing-Complete"

LordRatte — Sun, 06 Feb 2022 05:34:30 +0000

Do you have a reference explaining why two exactly?

New comment by LordRatte in "Show HN: Komorebi – A tiling window manager for Windows written in Rust (v0.1.6)"

LordRatte — Sat, 16 Oct 2021 05:31:12 +0000

Would this reduce the resource overhead on Windows?

I originally switched to i3wm because it was kind to my resources and I stayed because I discovered the joys of tiling windows.

New comment by LordRatte in "Ask HN: What non-work task have you automated?"

LordRatte — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 09:25:43 +0000

I don't have excessive time for social media so to silence my friends' nagging, I automated posting to twitter. My phone records the songs I listen to each day and posts them via a gist. My handle is @joshjstubbs, if you're curious.

New comment by LordRatte in "Unselfish People Are More Likely to Wind Up with Depression"

LordRatte — Fri, 06 Oct 2017 17:57:40 +0000

I would imagine that in most cases it offsets poverty and starvation rather than escape from it.

New comment by LordRatte in "Mumbling Isn’t a Sign of Laziness, It’s a Clever Data-Compression Trick"

LordRatte — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 11:24:53 +0000

Some people over-compress, though, until the point where the data becomes corrupt and the antivirus (our social attention span) quarantines it as a mild threat.

One-way instant messanger

LordRatte — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 12:36:37 +0000

Article URL: https://thoughttrough.wordpress.com/2014/04/14/keep-one-way-im/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9068155

Points: 2

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