561: Market Your Bug
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2023
⏱️ 136 minutes
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Summary
- Show Administrivia:
- Follow-up:
- Face ID is also an accessbility affordance (via Todd Scheresky)
- Uses for 🛢️👃🏻 (via Jamie West)
- Microwaves
- The modern knob (via Nate)
- There’s such a thing as too much (via Kieth Bradnam)
- Scanning old photos
- Ryan’s procedure
- Todd Vaziri’s advice
- Possible laptop improvments (via Nathaniel Velez)
- Apple explains dynamic caching (via Gokhan Avkarogullari)
- Metal Profiling Tools
- Performance Best Practices for Shaders
- Memory is now unified within the GPU (via Jonathan Ragan-Kelley)
- M3 SSD speed vs. M3 Pro SSD speed
- SSD price graph (via CG)
- Mac laptops have had the same base RAM since 2017 (via David Schaub)
- Marco and Casey’s new laptops
#askatp:- What is a “neural engine”? (via Richard Levitt)
- How often should bugs on beta OSes be reported? (via Mike Hoffman)
- Is there a way to get Photos.app’s geotag metadata into the actual files? (via Santiago)
- Post-show: Marco’s hardware adventure
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| 0:00.0 | I feel like I should acknowledge that if something weird happens it could be my fault because I have a brand new computer that I'm recording on |
| 0:08.0 | Marco it could be your fault because you have a brand new computer that you're recording on and it could |
| 0:14.1 | actually even be John's fault because his computer's so old busted ancient and |
| 0:18.4 | slow that it could be his fault after all if we don't know nobody knows |
| 0:21.7 | I mean you mean, slow and steady wins the race. |
| 0:25.0 | I see. |
| 0:26.0 | But why is you worried about your computers? |
| 0:28.0 | There's nothing weird about your computers that I mean yes they are new but like, |
| 0:31.0 | do you expect there to be problems they're not too different from |
| 0:35.0 | the computers you're replacing them? We're also jumping ahead and I need to put the |
| 0:38.4 | cabosh on this until we get there but we don't want to spoil the fact that we buy |
| 0:41.6 | new computers frequently. |
| 0:43.0 | Well, especially one of us. |
| 0:45.0 | Think for yourself, yeah. |
| 0:47.0 | Who has bought the newest computer here? |
| 0:49.0 | Oh, you, that's right. |
| 0:51.0 | It's you. Oh, by a week. |
| 0:52.0 | It's like I'm the older twin because I'm five minutes older. |
| 0:54.9 | Anyway, but no, what I got on the call this evening, |
| 0:58.8 | first thing Marco said to me was, oh, you're on the wrong mic. |
| 1:02.2 | Which was true for the record. |
| 1:03.4 | I mean that never happened with the old computer so you're right this is a big change. |
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