115: Empathy for the Machine

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.3 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2015

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

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Pre-show:
- Neko Atsume ("the cat game")
Follow-up:
- Bad Seagate hard drives
- How Hard Disks Work (page 7)
- The MacBook Air survives... for now!
- Photos
  - Background processes
    - iStat Menus
  - Hard links
    - John on symbolic and hard links in his Leopard review
  - Shared album photo limit (via Lance Hildebrand)
  - Performance
    - Mucho Spanish
    - Will Hains
  - Deleted photos
  - Restoring from backups
    - Deletion instructions
Apple Watch, one week in
- Luca's wrist
- Apple Watch bands
- WSJ on Taptic Engine manufacturing issue
- Serenity Caldwell's tweet
- Complications
  - Jason Snell's take
  - Casey's take
- Repairability
  - iFixIt's teardown
  - MacBook teardown
Microsoft Build
- Visual Studio Code
- Project Astoria & Project Islandwood
  - WINE
  - Dalvik
  - GNUStep
  - Microsoft Band
  - Session video (posted after this episode was recorded)
Post-show:
- Connected follow-out

Transcript

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0:00.0	I don't know about the cat game.
0:02.4	Yep.
0:03.4	It's more boring than I thought it was.
0:04.4	I thought you'd get to play with the cats or something.
0:06.1	I thought it was interactive in some way, but they just show up.
0:08.8	Yeah, it's just like real cats.
0:10.8	You don't really interact with them.
0:12.0	You just kind of feed them.
0:13.4	Right.
0:14.4	You're just so excited that they exist and that you exist at the same time.
0:17.4	Oh, look a cat.
0:18.4	I mean, that's it.
0:19.4	You don't get to play with the cats.
0:20.4	You don't get to throw them toys.
0:21.8	They don't.
0:22.8	It's just they show up, leave you crap, and then leave.
0:25.8	Yeah, they don't really care about you.
0:27.7	They just care about your food.
0:29.0	You can't even interact with them.
0:31.0	Right.
0:32.0	Just like real cats.
0:33.1	Don't like it.
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