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Accidental Tech Podcast

146: Control + Money + Smallness

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.42.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2015

⏱️ 111 minutes

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0:00.0

You're always sick. Here's how I know that I'm going to be sick. Adam is in school, and it's the winter.

0:06.9

Therefore we are sick.

0:09.9

How do you pronounce this person's name? You both know this person, right? Andres Netsman

0:14.4

It was one of the many people who were in the tell us that apparently I'm max no longer have IR sensors since around 2012 so

0:21.1

The people suggesting that perhaps my shiny new 5k I'm act was getting woken from sleep by our apparently

0:27.0

That's not happening because there is no sensor so that's kind of good to know in other words this ancient history is that I max have not had IR sensors since four years after your Mac Pro was made that you're still using every day

0:40.7

Still working just fine wondering at this point I'm wondering if I can make it 10 years, but I don't know

0:44.9

I don't want to Apple just make an external 5k display for crying out loud you'll make it

0:50.0

We'll see because they're they're not going to make the computer you want ever and so you're just gonna keep holding on

0:55.5

Sure they will I just need an external 5k display and a computer that can drive it and they're not gonna make the display with no computer

1:01.0

They're can drive and they're not gonna make a computer that can drive it with no display so it'll happen the computer that drives it is gonna

1:06.4

Not have the right candy gaming card for you and configure gets gonna be way too expensive

1:10.7

No, it's not gonna be the right right time, but it will be

1:13.6

Acceptable it will be way faster than everything else

1:16.6

I have including the one that's built into the iMac goodness. Did I tell you guys that?

1:21.1

So I'm working out of a client's office for the last month or so and will be for a while

1:26.1

You know as working for a client goes it's pretty good, but

1:31.4

It's still kind of weird doing the staff log thing which is not what I'm used to doing but anyway wait wait

1:36.8

The what the staff hog thing. What does that mean John? I have no idea really is the consultant language you're speaking now

1:44.2

I never did a consulting. It's just a Virginia thing. No, no, no, it's not a Virginia thing

1:48.9

It's a consulting thing a staff augmentation. So generally speaking the work I do

1:53.3

Oh, I would have got that if you had pronounced it like a New Yorker

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