ambentzen (u/ambentzen)

ambentzen commented on The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran cnn.com/2026/02/28/middle... · Posted by u/lavp

sekai · 15 days ago

Just now:

Trump: "The lives of American heroes may be lost, and we may have casualties - that often happens in war."

Another republican president starting a war in the middle east, once again sacrificing American lives.

ambentzen · 15 days ago

"Some of you are going to die, but that is a sacrifice I'm willing to make"

ambentzen commented on Crypto investors face tax crackdown as 70% non-compliant thepost.co.nz/business/36... · Posted by u/gochuks

scotty79 · 4 months ago

> Doyle says many crypto investors mistakenly think they can sell some Bitcoin to buy some Etherium, and that making that a switch like that did not trigger an obligation to pay tax.

Make a stupid rule, be surprised people are non-compliant.

ambentzen · 4 months ago

Why is that a stupid rule?

If I sell Nvidia stock to buy AMD stock, I need to pay tax on my Nvidia stock gains.

ambentzen commented on Minecraft removing obfuscation in Java Edition minecraft.net/en-us/artic... · Posted by u/SteveHawk27

xigoi · 4 months ago

I like Minecraft’s music. If there was a way to have it not play when the game is paused or on the title screen, I would probably keep it on.

ambentzen · 4 months ago

A quick search nets this: https://modrinth.com/mod/pause-music-on-pause

ambentzen commented on Tell HN: Azure outage · Posted by u/tartieret

sbergot · 5 months ago

and for a while the status was "there might be issues on azure portal".

ambentzen · 5 months ago

There might have been, but they didn't know because they couldn't access it. Could have been something totally unrelated.

ambentzen commented on JetKVM – Control any computer remotely jetkvm.com/... · Posted by u/elashri

int_19h · 5 months ago

They should have called it OCP, the Omni Control Protocol.

ambentzen · 5 months ago

Over Current Protection

ambentzen commented on Show HN: I created a cross-platform GUI for the JJ VCS (Git compatible) · Posted by u/_pvzn

ambentzen · 5 months ago

Looks neat, have you considered releasing an AppImage for wider Linux support?

ambentzen commented on Show HN: I created a cross-platform GUI for the JJ VCS (Git compatible) · Posted by u/_pvzn

IshKebab · 5 months ago

Even though it's abandoned it still works perfectly fine and I still use it.

ambentzen · 5 months ago

Doesn't that make it "complete" as opposed to "abandoned"?

Everything does not need constant updates and new features.

ambentzen commented on Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account theverge.com/news/793579/... · Posted by u/josephcsible

Filligree · 5 months ago

Nvidia works great, and has since this summer. So long as you’re on a recent release you shouldn’t have issues.

Nvidia on a machine with an AMD iGPU requires you to blacklist the amdgpu module.

ambentzen · 5 months ago

Nobody tell my machine that. I have a 5080 paired with an 9800X3D, no blacklisting of kernel modules necessary (for me at least).

ambentzen commented on Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover joel.drapper.me/p/rubygem... · Posted by u/bradgessler

dragonwriter · 6 months ago

I think more accurate is this:

One person who was a major funder of RubyCentral pulled funding because they were upset at RubyCentral platforming DHH. Neither that person, nor RubyCentral, had control over or ownership of the RubyGems software at that time, though RubyCentral operated the rubygems.org service, which uses the RubyGems software.

The corporation that is the other major funder of RubyCentral (Shopify) responded to this (taking advantage of the fact that this left them the sole significant funder of RubyCentral whom RubyCentral could not afford to alienate) to direct RubyCentral to, without any plausible claim of right, seize control of the RubyGems software repos, and kick out anyone who wasn’t a full-time RubyCentral employee from them.

It’s not about DHH except that that indirectly provided the opportunity, it’s about Shopify seeking to consolidate control of core Ruby infrastructure.

ambentzen · 6 months ago

DHH is on the board of directors at Shopify.

ambentzen commented on Use singular nouns for database table names teamten.com/lawrence/prog... · Posted by u/Bogdanp

Glyptodon · 6 months ago

I don't like plural table names as a convention, but not enough to not use Rails or change its default behaviors.

For me, it's in the same category as preferring generated primary keys were named <table-name>_id over just "id" - you may have a preference, but it's not got that much big picture importance.

ambentzen · 6 months ago

If you have self-referential columns you are going to have to name them something else, like `parent_id` and tell your model code about the discrepancy.