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Accidental Tech Podcast

676: A Sternly Worded Instruction

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.32.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2026

⏱️ 140 minutes

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0:00.0

I feel like we should do some stopocalypse follow-up. I was talking last week about how Richmond was

0:05.8

due for like 30 inches of snow. Yeah, what happened? We did not get 30 inches of snow. Yeah, I saw your

0:10.8

picture of your driveway. You got barely enough to cover the ground. It was a little more than that,

0:15.6

perhaps not by Boston standards, I will allow, but by local standards, it was, it was somewhat significant. It was like

0:21.4

three or four inches. I'm not going to do that computation for centimeters. It was a handful of centimeters. You've got to stop doing unit conversions. I think we need a moratorium on unit conversions, especially since you can't do them in your head and then you're always just guessing. People, like, if people are interested in doing the unit conversion, lots of ways that is possible after the fact.

0:38.2

But I feel like what we should instead be doing is slowly acclimating people to our weird units. No, because our units, with the exception of Fahrenheit, stink. They're terrible. They do, but there are units and that we talk about them. And that's, you know, by listening to the show, people will become familiar with them. I'm pretty sure that people outside of the U.S. who consume U.S. media have plenty of other

0:58.2

cases of other shows and things, you know, just using our units and making them figure it out.

1:03.6

I don't think they need us to add to the pile.

1:05.3

That being said, I also don't think it's our responsibility to keep converting everything.

1:11.3

All right, well, let the record show I tried.

1:13.1

Anyways, we got a small amount of snow, but on top of the snow, we got a pile of ice.

1:18.6

And that ice during the day, when it's sunny, which it has been the last couple days,

1:24.3

it will melt a little bit at the top, and then refreeze and refreeze and refreeze and refreeze.

1:29.6

And so it ends up that we have like a couple of inches of ice everywhere now.

1:34.5

That's not good.

1:35.3

Which is not good.

1:36.6

And the county, because remember in Virginia, everything is by counties.

1:40.3

The county has done an actually extraordinary job of keeping interstates clear of keeping major

1:46.6

the bigger side roads the bigger like non-interstate roads clear um you know for example my

1:54.3

neighborhood dumps into one of the larger roads where where we are um and that's bone dry

2:00.3

it's been dry basically this whole time.

2:03.3

But when it comes to the neighborhoods,

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