353: Modern-Day Dialup
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2019
⏱️ 129 minutes
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Summary
- Neutral: The inevitable death of the stick
- Paperlike 2 (note: order from Kickstarter to get Paperlike 2; their website is currently only selling the first-gen)
- 16-inch MacBook Pro follow-up:
- Pricing
- What did Marco buy?
- Phil Schiller on a 14" MacBook Pro
- Keyboard repairability
- Incremental improvement for Macs
- Motorola Razr Returns
- Casey's Catalina Catastrophe
- Casey's Computing Conundrum
#askatp- When is a language ready for use on servers? (via Bastian Inuk)
- Can Marco track total listen time for an Overcast account? (via René Ferguson)
- Could Adobe's iOS apps be used as a basis for ARM-native apps? (via filteq)
- Post-show:
- Reconcilable Differences #102: Preparing the Way
- John's UPS
- John's "pigtails" - one and two
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | With the hyphen modern hyphen day. Yes. Don't put a hyphen in dial up though |
| 0:04.6 | I don't think let's check that no because modern day is a modifier of dial up |
| 0:08.0 | I know but I mean like dial up I think might be a hyphenated word oh |
| 0:12.6 | I gotta look I didn't think about that. See Wikipedia has it with the hyphen we can just choose not to you know |
| 0:19.3 | That is something we could do. No, I'm just making sure I'm just making sure without is even an option the Apple dictionary |
| 0:24.3 | Only has it in the hyphenate form. I know I'm just I'm looking that's usually my reference |
| 0:29.6 | dictionary |
| 0:32.2 | Yeah, I think I think you have to have a hyphen I think without the hyphen is not a thing |
| 0:36.3 | This is hyphens from wild the hyphens do not own you gentlemen. Just choose not to |
| 0:41.8 | It's going in without the hyphen. No, you can't just make up your own words modern hyphen day |
| 0:47.4 | Space dial up. No, that dollop isn't apparently not a word if you don't put the hyphen there |
| 0:53.1 | One the pens are gonna all email us and say you know do it. It's not a word. I really don't think anyone is going to email us |
| 0:59.5 | Oh, are you kidding challenge accepted? |
| 1:02.4 | I yeah, I think I think we could get rid of that one without a single email actually. I think I'm on case side of this bit |
| 1:06.8 | Mm-hmm. I don't I don't think we would hear about it from anybody just Chris pepperless of this podcast |
| 1:12.5 | Ultimately, John is gonna go in and change it out from under us anyway |
| 1:15.4 | So I wouldn't just be correct. No, why would we not but would be intentionally not be correct? |
| 1:19.2 | What are you making the stand about what are you what are you proving? |
| 1:22.0 | That I'm proving that I am better than than a need to make the die the die hook God see hyphen God's happy |
| 1:29.6 | What what makes you better? What what what there's no such thing as hyphen God? So what are you trying to say? |
| 1:33.7 | I'm choosing I am making a creative choice |
| 1:36.3 | I'm making creative choice to not use the hyphen. What are you expressing with that creative choice? |
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