500: All the Nerds in the Room

Sep 15, 2022•2 hr 3 min•Ep 500•Transcript available on Metacast

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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 👓