156: ‘Yo, Dingus’ With Merlin Mann

The Talk Show With John Gruber

John Gruber

Technology

3.6 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2016

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Summary

Merlin Mann returns to the show to talk about artificial intelligence and Eddy Cue’s flip-flops.

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0:00.0	This is episode CLVI of the talk show.
0:06.0	We're already at the CLVI.
0:08.0	CLVI, which is the Roman numerals last week.
0:10.0	I didn't listen to the last week's episode yet.
0:12.0	So you and MG Seagull talked about Roman numerals again, huh?
0:14.0	Yeah.
0:15.0	That's ponderous.
0:16.0	I got on it.
0:17.0	I got on a rant because of the getting rid of the 10 and macOS 10.
0:21.0	Oh, right.
0:22.0	And I've hated it all along.
0:23.0	I've hated it right from the first version.
0:25.0	I don't like it.
0:28.0	Anyway, I might have never liked OS 10 as the name of the operating system.
0:32.0	No, I just think that it was X, X is the coolest letter of the alphabet.
0:36.0	And it was a way to put it with the coolest letter of the alphabet in the name.
0:40.0	But because it's so cool, half the people pronounce it OS X.
0:44.0	Oh, I did it.
0:45.0	I did it for years.
0:46.0	I, uh, I think I made a John Sturkey's a sharp one time when I told him how I'd gone into.
0:53.0	Uh, the PHP, my admin and done a universal search to change all of my OS X as one word to OS
0:58.0	space X.
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