Episode 471

471: My Fiber Situation Is Fine

Spring cleaning, music apps, package managers, and coffee gear.

February 24, 20221h 58m

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Show Notes

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
#askatp:
- Two-fer from Omri Arbiv:
  - What’s Marco’s current coffee setup?
  - 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)