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471: My Fiber Situation Is Fine

Hosted byCasey LissJohn SiracusaMarco Arment

• Pre-show: Casey messes with Marco during his very difficult day
• Celiac
• Important follow-up: in short, actual celiac disease cannot be cured, so the people in question most likely had other forms of gluten intolerance
• Colostrum (the pills Marco got — ask a doctor, YMMV)
• Thera Cane
• Reconcilable Differences #176: The Curse of Convenience
• It’s All Too Much
• NIMBY
• Follow-up:
• Getting an older car to always play Maps’ directions over Bluetooth (via Paul Violante)
• Settings → Maps → Spoken Directions → Directions on Radio
• Some interesting feedback on brake-by-wire systems
• Marc Barrowclift’s Fourth Annual iOS Music Player Showcase (via Aidan Trager)
• Casey attempts a victory lap around John
• Reconcilable Differences #176: The Curse of Convenience

Note the relevant section was in the members’ only after-show

• Feedback received on John’s Streaming App Spec
• The NVIDIA/Arm deal has been scuttled
• Previously: Doubts about the NVIDIA/Arm deal
• Announced 20 September 2020 (!)
• Apparently .NET Core can trace its roots to Silverlight (!)
• Developer deliberately corrupts popular open-source packages
• Previous NPM disaster covered on ATP
• Semantic Versioning
• Log4j vulnerability
• xkcd #2347: Dependency
• Tech companies called to the principal’s office
• Discourse tries to lead by an $82,500 example
• #askatp:
• Two-fer from Omri Arbiv:
• What’s Marco’s current coffee setup?
• James Hoffmann’s Aeropress technique
• Ratio Eight
• Baratza Virtuoso
• YES PLZ
• Trade Coffee
• Intelligentsia
• Is John still subscribed to cable?
• Do we have a good system for maintaining family contacts? (via Paul Walker)
• Post-show Robot or Not:
• Bonus #askatp: Do we say we’re “in front of” or “behind” the computer? (via Niek van de Pas)

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