689: The Positive Effect of Enthusiasm

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.3 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2026

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

Pre-show: Mythos
- Anthropic’s blog post
Follow-up:
- ATP Store
  - Yes, it happened again.
  - The ATP Neo Silver made it!
- UPenn is an Ivy
  - Kieran Healy’s story
  - Marina Epelman’s thought
    - US News & World Report 2026 Best Engineering Schools
- Gurman’s transition coverage
  - Tim Cook’s remarks to employees
  - Comparison between Cook & Ternus
- The Ability to be Hotter
  - New material proves to be more heat conductive
Backblaze is no longer backing up cloud storage
- Backblaze Mac Release Notes for version 9.2.2.878
- Backblaze Windows Release Notes for version 9.2.2.877
- Response on Reddit
  - Reparse point
  - Additional response on Reddit
- Backblaze blog post
- MJ Tsai roundup
- Alternatives:
  - Arq
  - Parachute for iCloud
Ask ATP:
- What generation is John’s Accord? What’s the plan for replacement? (via Brian Ashe)
  - ATP Neutral: Car Shopping
  - 2014 Honda Accord
- Which Apple CEO will 💩-can the Mac? (via Jason)
- How often should Macs be restarted? (via Paul Franz)
  - Bug report
  - Gruber’s take
Post-show: Pedometer++ version 8.0
Members-only ATP Overtime: Should Apple MacBook Neo all the things?
- MaxTech’s musing

Transcript

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0:00.0	So now you missed my amazing joke, which really wasn't that amazing.
0:04.4	Yeah.
0:04.6	Well.
0:06.0	It's quite right.
0:06.1	It's only uphill from here.
0:07.8	All right.
0:08.4	Downhill?
0:08.8	Nobody ever knows.
0:10.4	It's only up from here, looking up from here, falling down from here.
0:14.0	A debate that Aaron and I had, which I reached a conclusion to, but I don't think she was paying any attention because she could not possibly care less was.
0:21.2	You lost her one sentence in?
0:22.8	Yeah, pretty much.
0:23.5	If I want the air conditioning to be colder, am I turning it up or turning it down?
0:29.9	Yeah, I feel like that when it comes to air conditioning season, I feel like that, that catches everybody.
0:36.4	Like, oh, turn it up.
0:37.6	Like, well, make it stronger.
0:39.3	Which direction is that?
0:40.5	Turn the temperature up, which makes it weaker.
0:43.0	Right.
0:43.5	And I feel like you, it's just one of the, it's one of the situations like settlers
0:47.3	of Catan trades where you just have to add more words to clarify what you mean.
0:51.9	Anybody want to trade wood for sheep?
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