500: All the Nerds in the Room
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2022
⏱️ 123 minutes
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Summary
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- Extended Pre-show:
- Marco finally catches up to Casey & John
- 🎉 ATP EPISODE 500!!! 🎉
catatp- ATP Episode #400: Reach Is the Next Frontier
- Mac OS iguana easter egg (video)
- Mac OS iguana easter egg explanation
- Some discussions about a 🆕 special members-only perk
- Follow-up:
- John’s Polarizer & lens protector
- Special relativity
- Variable Neutral Density Filter
- Bell’s Theorem (via Stepan Dolezal)
- Polarizing Filter (via Rob Sayre)
- UV Filters are useless? (also via Rob Sayre)
- iPhone focal lengths spreadsheet (by Colin Robertson)
- 2× crop goes from 9.8 × 7.3mm → 4.9 × 3.65mm
- Prior 2× cameras were 4 × 3mm
- Satellite location sharing
- Apple Watch S8 is basically the same CPU as S6 & S7
- Apple Delays iCloud Shared Photo Library
- Dynamic Island name recommendation from Dan Engler
- Krebs unequivocally walks back the Ubiquiti reporting
- John’s Polarizer & lens protector
- What did the hosts order last week?
- Marco races the clock
- Don’t miss a special treat before the after-show. (Thanks, Jonathan!)
- Post-show: Marco asks for tips about 👓
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | My streak is over. |
| 0:02.0 | Not our 500 episode streak, |
| 0:03.6 | because this is the 500 episode, |
| 0:04.8 | but my streak of not needing any kind of corrective eyewear |
| 0:09.9 | is over. |
| 0:10.7 | Oh, oh no. |
| 0:12.3 | Oh, what happened? |
| 0:13.8 | So I turned 40 a few months ago. |
| 0:16.7 | Yeah, everything takes the dump right around then. |
| 0:19.1 | Or until you're on the out. |
| 0:20.2 | It must have been like, within the same month, |
| 0:23.5 | I started noticing, my minimum focus distance is increasing. |
| 0:28.1 | And as that kept getting worse, I'm like, |
| 0:33.0 | you know, this seems to be happening quickly. |
| 0:35.7 | Like, I'm suddenly noticing in the last few months, |
| 0:38.2 | like, I can't focus as close as I used to anymore. |
| 0:41.7 | And it finally reached the point of like, |
| 0:44.4 | my nighttime phone and bed reading distance. |
| 0:48.8 | And I thought, uh-oh, it's time I should probably |
| 0:53.2 | go to an eye doctor for the first time ever. |
| 0:56.5 | Oh, I'm so jealous. |
| 0:57.4 | One of the advantages, I think, of being somebody |
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