500: All the Nerds in the Room

Accidental Tech Podcast

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• Extended Pre-show:
  • Marco finally catches up to Casey & John
    • Dilating drops
  • 🎉 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
    • Collect calls
  • Apple Watch S8 is basically the same CPU as S6 & S7
  • Apple Delays iCloud Shared Photo Library
  • Dynamic Island name recommendation from Dan Engler
    • API
    • The Verge’s iPhone 14 Pro review
      • Subpixel rendering
      • Pentile display
  • Krebs unequivocally walks back the Ubiquiti reporting
• What did the hosts order last week?
  • John’s black-leather iPhone 12 Pro case
  • John’s forthcoming black-leather iPhone 14 Pro case
• 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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