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300: First of All, It’s Easy

02:23:54
🎉 300th Episode Spectacular! 🎉 ATP #96: The Windows of Siracusa County ATP #225: A Conversation with Siri Hypercritical #15: The Bridges of Siracusa County Follow-up: Retina MacBook Air battery replacements are easier iFixIt Command Strips command.com Control Strip Mac...

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299: Headphone Bump

02:02:58

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298: Protective Sandwich

02:26:44

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297: It Also Deserves to Die

02:22:06
Instagram stories and the dynamimcs of retweets Independence #37: Evolution of an App Follow-up: Marco's lookahead limiter iOS and memory swapping Wear leveling John's last Apple Photos book The iPhone XR The Stalman Podcast #36: "Just" Creators and Hands-On with the...

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296: Giant Buffers of Floats

02:13:21
Pre-show: Marco's look-ahead limiter Accelerate framework objc_msgSend() Let's build objc_msgSend Apple fixes bagel emoji Follow-up: Screen Time issues abound Emergency bypass Casey's blog post Apple iCloud contacts sync limits Apple printer compatibility list Palm...

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295: Outlets That Suck

01:55:16
Watch pontification Panerai watches Trading in with Apple GiveBack Follow-up: ARMv8.3 improves JavaScript benchmarks Minecraft left Apple TV Screen Time Quitter iCloud Family accounts Apple Watch Walkie-Talkie Intercom systems and central vacuums Bloomberg's ...

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294: The Intersection of Liberal Arts and Whatever

01:53:20
The abomination that is Apple's take on the bagel emoji Apple PR post iOS 12.1 wrap-up Lender's bagels iPhone 🎾 charging times Follow-up: The A12 has a lot of cache (via Henrik Wannheden) Chris Lattner weighs in on 64-bit watches and excuses Apple Watch fall detection is...

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293: You Know My Pouches

02:10:12
Please give some money to St. Jude. It literally helps save lives. Follow-up: Apple Watch making-of fire/water faces video Apple Watch 64-bit compilation magic Steve Troughton-Smith Chris Lattner interview iPhone 🎾 is fast The iPhone 🎾 camera is good Our Marco & J...

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292: Start a Rotate Chicken Nuggets Timer

01:51:49
Please give some money to St. Jude. It literally helps save lives. Follow-up: Ben Bajarin on A-fib detection Dead man's switch 50% faster tessellation... maybe? Works on contingency. No money down. Underplayed improvements to iPhone XR/XS camera and Watch Series 4 Gr...

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291: John’s Special Day

02:24:21

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290: A Weird Sandwich

02:20:40

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289: Everybody’s in the Alliance

02:10:42
Follow-up: MoCA and MoCA Bridge Hades Canyon NUCs Engadget Video Review Snell's NUC article Anandtech The AirPort Express lives! Snell's iPod Hi-Fi Sonos Connect The End of AirPort DD-WRT Tomato WRT54G Phil Schiller flies Panzer's tweet iPhone mockups preview ...

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288: Rich Person’s Raspberry Pi

01:57:11

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287: Open-Faced Compliment Sandwich

02:08:14
Follow-up: Model 3 software update for the right jog wheel Finding the settings Printing PDFs from Photos by ⌥-clicking the Buy Book button Backblaze Data retention Backing up a NAS using AutoMounter Dock auto-hide delay defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-time-modi...

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286: I Respect a Good Crust

01:56:16
Pre-show: John's pie-filled vacation John's seemingly impossible picture Follow-up: CrashPlan, John, and Java java mx java mx {newNumber}m SpiderOak BackBlaze BackBlaze B2 Arq John's Photo books DiskInventoryX DaisyDisk Photo printer's extension AMD and TSMC and 7nm D...

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285: Do Not Drill Holes in This House

02:02:25
Follow-up: The law is complicated Intel 10nm is allegedly coming at the end of NEXT year On an infinite timescale, when does Apple move away from Intel? RISC-V Die What happened to Apple's whimsy? Michael Tsai's summary Marco's comment #askatp: Overflowing portable...

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284: Hotel California Keyboard

02:06:22
Follow-up: Easier keycap replacement on the 2018 keyboard Membranes are for ingress prevention More from MacRumors "Subsequent remedial measures" iFixit particle experiment Intel giveth and Intel taketh away The mythical USB-C hub Sad recent history of Intel CPUs Cor...

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283: Just Lower Your Standards

01:50:21
Pre-show: Videolog(ue) iJustine & MKBHD unbox a sealed, 18-year-old iBook G3 Casey Neistat and MKBHD review a Lamborghini DeMuro's botched video Follow-up: Patenting the perpetual motion machine Pre-2018 MacBook keyboard repairs won't get the 2018 keyboard "Beware ...

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282: Not Unreliable Enough

02:12:00
Follow-up: Distributing Marzipan Apps Siri is multilingual... until it isn't. Window air-conditioner hacks New MacBook Pros The Verge's review iFixIt reveals key-protecting membranes Apple's Patent Keyboard Service Program Apple T2 Apple A10 Geekbench Marco's tweet...

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281: My Private Siri

01:47:54
Home repairs: Window air conditioners Frigidaire Gallery quiet window air conditioner Computer repairs Casey repairs Erin's MacBook Air... maybe. Local snapshots maybe? Marco's iMac wants to be like Casey's Follow-up: Reporters got to talk to Google Duplex A A A A V...

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280: Extinction-Level Event

02:04:31
Follow-up: Safari's Allow Unsigned Extensions is not a panacea after all Adobe is rethinking things Many people have written their own de-dupe apps One example of many The long national Music.app default first-alphabetic song nightmare is over A a a a a Very Good Song ...

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279: You’ll Hate What I’m Actually Doing

01:48:40
Accidental Test Kitchen: Induction cooktops International cellular-data options AT&T International Day Pass Verizon TravelPass Follow-up: Simulator cloning is fast because of APFS cloning cp -c Notarized apps and signing Marco's 🏖️ setup Carrying case John's rel...

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278: Best Worst Influence

02:03:53
Follow-up: WWDC Intro Video It was Stephen Fry channeling David Attenborough A perspective from Jen Simmons Feminist Frequency It's Road Trip! RIP, other chat networks in Messages.app (via Sam Gross) APFS snapshotting and iOS Simulator parallel testing (via Renaud Le...

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277: You’re Not a Mac App Yet

01:32:41

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276: Observing a Black Hole

02:14:33

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275: It’s Difficult When You’re a Billionaire

01:53:17
Follow-up: People can change their minds, and that's okay. Right, old Marco? Your logical fallacy is... How old are your ears? Some Analog(ue) #132 follow-out Cortex #69: Minimum Viable Tesla and Elon Musk Grimes, Elon's girlfriend Top Gear kerfuffle Elon announces...

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274: Not the Teddy Bear’s Fault

01:59:09
Yanny vs. Laurel New York Times article Follow-up: Raise to listen in 🇨🇳 Google Duplex Bob Burrough's summary Matt Drance 1 & 2 Duplex will identify as non-human First-hand story from retail Amazon and executive diversity 🤬 Twitter. Sean Heber Craig Hockenberr...

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273: Playing You Like a Video Game

01:38:49
Follow-up: Disabling "Raise to Listen" on iPhone X You should go to Layers Jony Ive interviewed by Hodinkee Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products Google Duplex Keynote video The Verge's 14-minute summary Ihnatko's take 20 years of USB iMac Retrospecti...

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272: 60% Satisfied

01:55:05

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271: Voting With Your Virtual Feet

01:35:21
ATP MERCHANDISE!! Get your clothing by May 7, 9 PM ATP time Get your pins ASAP! They will sell out! Sorry, no flamethrowers. Follow-up: Would Bitcode make an Intel → ARM transition easier? ATP Interview with Chris Lattner Marco's backpack woes Tom Bihn Synapse 25 Peak ...