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The Talk Show With John Gruber

165: ‘I Do Feel the Pea’ With Guy English

The Talk Show With John Gruber

John Gruber

Technology

3.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2016

⏱️ 128 minutes

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Summary

Special guest Guy English returns to the show. Topics include Tim Cook’s five year anniversary as Apple CEO, Steven Levy’s behind-the-scenes look at Apple’s AI and machine learning efforts, Apple’s decision to change the pistol emoji from a realistic revolver to a toy squirt gun, and the demise of Vesper. Also: our favorite Looney Tunes characters.

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0:00.0

this argument is why we're gonna stop being friends like one day we're gonna get drunk and get really mad about this.

0:04.9

I think we have. I think we probably.

0:08.3

Like in a way that like, you know, maybe other guys would get in a fight over, you know, sports or a girl or something like that.

0:16.5

Like, you know, getting fights over Celsius versus Fahrenheit.

0:20.6

Right. Yeah.

0:22.4

You're the only person I know who I can't convince that okay, at least it makes sense for temperature.

0:27.2

Yeah, you can't convince me because it doesn't make sense.

0:31.0

It's just anyway, whatever. I don't want to get into it, but it's it's in the 90s way too hot in the hundreds dangerously hot.

0:40.3

Can I even go into this?

0:42.0

Honestly, I kind of believe you. I get it. I really do.

0:47.9

Especially since I spend more time in the States. I really do.

0:53.4

And that can't leave this close circle of you, me and all of your listeners.

1:00.0

So I do get it. I just it's but the arguments for it make no sense, man.

1:06.8

Like it's all about what you're accustomed to.

1:09.3

I totally agree that for anything else for, you know, doctors, you know, you go to the hospital,

1:14.0

they should do everything at Celsius.

1:15.4

You know, all science obviously should be conducted in Celsius or Kelvin or whatever scale makes sense.

1:21.8

But for sure about the weather Fahrenheit Fahrenheit's the bomb.

1:28.0

Okay, trying to get away from this a little bit. Apple introduced a whole bunch of new APIs.

1:34.3

This last cycle for different measurements.

1:39.8

And one of them was temperature. What do you think the the system these was?

1:48.1

Probably Celsius. Kelvin.

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