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Accidental Tech Podcast

120: One Magical Wire

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.32.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2015

⏱️ 127 minutes

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0:00.0

I'm back. Playtime is over. Are we going to get past follow-up tonight, sir?

0:05.0

Well, I don't, I have to talk to you about your drink before we start. This was the pre-flight we were doing off the air.

0:10.0

Mark, I wanted to know what your liquid situation was surrounding your computer.

0:15.0

And I remember hearing maybe on the podcast I wasn't on. You were talking about your stupid cup thing that weevils wobble,

0:21.0

but they don't fall down. Technology is employed in. And I think you're kind of missing the point.

0:27.0

The point is not to get a cup. If you knock it over on top of your computer,

0:32.0

will hopefully through the design of the cup not have any liquid fallout or some magical cup that is impossible to knock over.

0:38.0

That you could hit it with an oncoming freight train and this cup will not tip over.

0:43.0

All of those things are fixing the problem in the wrong way.

0:47.0

You got to, you have to accept the fact that the cup will tip over and spill water out.

0:51.0

Even if you think your cup A won't tip over, B won't spill liquid.

0:54.0

Just accept that both of those things, it's like servers, you know, servers will fail. Hardware will fail.

1:00.0

It is accepted and then build a system where when your cup falls over, start stripping liquid, explodes, whatever.

1:07.0

If you liquid, what was that? That was not the cup, don't worry. I'll show you in a second.

1:12.0

All right, that the liquid that does come out will fall down with gravity away from your computer, which is up higher than it.

1:19.0

So this is the system I implore you to get going on.

1:23.0

So I'm going to, I'm going to tweet at you too, because I don't want to make a public public public tweet.

1:30.0

A picture of my setup at Mom and Dads and let me show you something that will bake you even more excited over my setup here at Mom and Dads.

1:41.0

So give me just a moment.

1:45.0

So is that what you mean, John, put it up above the computer so it spills directly onto the computer? That's the idea.

1:51.0

That's not it. That's that's kind of the worst setup I've ever seen, I think.

1:56.0

I like the fact that you have to reach across both your microphone on the computer to get the cup.

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