471: My Fiber Situation Is Fine

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.3 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2022

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Summary

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)

Transcript

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0:00.0	In general, I'm very happy right now.
0:02.4	Okay, this sounds like me.
0:04.7	What was it last week or the week before?
0:06.5	Oh God, all right, lay it on me.
0:08.2	Okay, so first of all, I don't know if I've mentioned
0:11.8	on the show much if at all, but for about 15 years maybe,
0:18.9	I've had a weird stomach allergy to bananas and avocados.
0:23.0	Oh yeah, you've mentioned that for sure.
0:24.4	It's the weirdest thing, if I eat them,
0:26.4	I just get this massive stomach ache,
0:29.6	like as if I ate a soblade,
0:31.3	or one of those like spiky crusty oes from the symptoms,
0:33.2	you know, like it's like that kind of thing,
0:34.2	like just huge, just pain.
0:37.6	And you know, nothing, you know,
0:38.8	nothing, not too much detail,
0:40.2	but like nothing can come out of the direction
0:42.0	to fix this problem, it's just pain.
0:44.0	All right, so anyway, in my life,
0:46.5	I've known a couple of celiacs.
0:48.8	One of them told the others,
0:51.6	you should try taking colostrum,
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