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New comment by joezydeco in "Restaurant Delivery Payment-Skimming Campaign"

joezydeco — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 16:00:33 +0000

My Jimmy Johns app has had problems with Apple Pay all week. I wonder if it's related.

New comment by joezydeco in "Jailbreaking my car's navigation system just so I can change the time"

joezydeco — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 17:31:22 +0000

There are two paths and both don't work anymore.

First is to bring the hardware and software design in-house. Except auto companies don't do well at software, they're used to letting OEM vendors write the engine control firmware etc etc. There's also the problem of the very long design cycles in car manufacturing. The new car platform being built today started its design four to five years ago. And that's when the hardware was locked down.

Volvo's platform was so old at launch that they threw in the towel and are now offering to upgrade your hardware if you complain hard enough.

The other choice is to shop it all out to a consulting firm or OEM vendor. Then you have cultural conflicts between the car maker and the programmers, communication overhead, choice of hardware conflicts, etc. And you know it's going to be shopped out to the cheapest bidder. And you're still at the mercy of launching with hardware that's way older than the smartphone in the driver's pocket.

New comment by joezydeco in "Sneaking into the auditorium for the Windows 2000 launch rehearsal"

joezydeco — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 16:36:54 +0000

Late 80s, it was fairly easy to get into Apple's developer program. I wrote up a "business plan" describing an Apple ][ program I wrote (which was real) and laid out the plans to port it to the Mac (which was not real).

In return you got a mountain of documentation and CDs, and the magic carbon-paper form that let you buy one Apple device a year at a 50% discount. That's how I got my MacSE for college.

I did feel bad because for a few years afterward my mom was routinely contacted by Cupertino asking how the program was coming along.

It was also incredibly easy to crash the Consumer Electronics Show. Probably still is. Just a fake business card printed up and mailed in. I was there for the Newton intro, that was something.

New comment by joezydeco in "Apple's iPod Recreation"

joezydeco — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 19:17:19 +0000

That had to be painful.

"You could just emulate the actual iPod firmware with a few thousand AI-generated lines of WebAssembly, but that would mean putting our firmware out in the open. Do it in Javascript."

New comment by joezydeco in "US agency approves Amazon Leo’s $11.5B acquisition of Globalstar"

joezydeco — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 17:59:01 +0000

Leo/Kuiper was launching satellites on SpaceX as well.

New comment by joezydeco in "Super Intelligence"

joezydeco — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 17:08:52 +0000

But, in the end, everything Trump touches turns to shit. This will not be an exception.

New comment by joezydeco in "Ward Christensen, Telecommunications Pioneer"

joezydeco — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 19:31:47 +0000

Shouldn't have responded to OP, seems like a bot that's just repasting random things.

New comment by joezydeco in "Ward Christensen, Telecommunications Pioneer"

joezydeco — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 19:18:00 +0000

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41828923

New comment by joezydeco in "Apple HomeView"

joezydeco — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:09:50 +0000

homeOS VoIP app

Like FaceTime?

New comment by joezydeco in "Apple HomeView"

joezydeco — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:24:31 +0000

The intro video does an excellent job of hiding the fact that this needs a power cord. There's one quick shot shows a hole drilled into the middle of the kitchen island to provide access to the USB-C cord.

New comment by joezydeco in "Ask HN: What's the oldest software tool you still rely on every day?"

joezydeco — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:37:09 +0000

vi. Fifty years old now. It's a defacto TUI text editor on any embedded Linux system I work with and I can count on it to always be there. No replacement comes close, or has a smaller footprint in storage.

New comment by joezydeco in "Barcodes are about to go extinct"

joezydeco — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 15:25:34 +0000

If you look at ALDI, they print multiple 1D bar codes that take the entire length of the box. This greatly decreases the time needed at the checkout stand to orient and scan the box.

https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/12/o...

I don't see chains like ALDI agreeing to anything else until they can prove the same speed and accuracy as the mega-1D print.

New comment by joezydeco in "Furry Airline Pilots Are Just Minding Their Own Business"

joezydeco — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 16:08:27 +0000

This whole thing came about because bored pilots like to mess with ATC by meowing on the radio. Nothing to do with their habits off the clock. Tuberville is an idiot.

New comment by joezydeco in "Disney World has a better underground cable infrastructure than most cities"

joezydeco — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 22:16:06 +0000

Disney World was built on a swamp, and it was constructed higher than ground level for multiple reasons. The utility corridors are a byproduct of that.

So TLDR your city is stupid for not raising the entire thing one story higher so you can run pipes and cables. (Chicago, you get a pass because of the sewage thing).

New comment by joezydeco in "US to Tap More Oil from Emergency Reserve as Fuel Prices Surge"

joezydeco — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 16:35:33 +0000

It's believed anything below 300 million will damage the storage caves beyond repair.

New comment by joezydeco in "Show HN: PaperMono, e-ink fridge magnet shopping list with mobile web page"

joezydeco — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:23:36 +0000

I just got mine and I think it has a lot of potential in the newer code forks that are showing up, like Tesseract

New comment by joezydeco in "Real-time feedback: My closing move in every interview"

joezydeco — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 06:07:31 +0000

This seems like a really dangerous way to expose yourself to a discrimination suit if you slip up in your feedback, or the candidate interprets it the wrong way. And they will.

Would HR advise you to give this kind of feedback to someone you're terminating? Normally you say zero for this exact reason.

New comment by joezydeco in "Why CAFEBABE?"

joezydeco — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:38:03 +0000

I always use 0xDECAFBAD for my magic number.

New comment by joezydeco in "George Lucas Returns to Earth, Bearing Gifts"

joezydeco — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 20:57:28 +0000

It was an impasse. Chicago wants the development money and tourism, but it also holds pretty strongly to the idea that the lakefront belongs to everyone and shouldn't be developed with private money and closed off. Yes, it was a parking lot. But it was a public parking lot.

That means sometimes these kinds of developments don't happen and you can argue either way. Lucas got a little pushy about how he wanted the museum to be developed and also turned down alternate sites. So he took his ball and left and that's okay too.

New comment by joezydeco in "New York thoracic surgeon: "For many patients 9/11 is not over""

joezydeco — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:32:29 +0000

The first 40 floors of the WTC towers had steel beams coated in an asbestos insulating material. The regulations changed mid-construction but the lower floors remained.

About 400 tons of asbestos was thrown into the atmosphere around Manhattan when the towers fell.