676: A Sternly Worded Instruction
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What is discussed at the start of this section?
I feel like we should do some snowpocalypse follow-up. I was talking last week about how Richmond was due for like 30 inches of snow.
Yeah, what happened?
We did not get 30 inches of snow.
Yeah, I saw your picture of your driveway. You've got barely enough to cover the ground.
It was a little more than that, perhaps not by Boston standards, I will allow. But by local standards, it was somewhat significant.
What was the outcome of the snowpocalypse in Richmond?
It was like 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.
We need a moratorium on unit conversions, especially since you can't do them in your head and then you're always just guessing. If people are interested in doing the unit conversion, lots of ways that is possible after the fact. 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 they're our units, and 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 cases of other shows and things, you know, just using our units and making them figure it out. I don't think they need us to add to the pile. That being said, I also don't think it's our responsibility to keep converting everything.
All right. Well, let the record show I tried. Anyways, we got a small amount of snow, but on top of the snow, we got a pile of ice and that ice during the day will, when it's sunny, which it has been the last couple of days, it will melt a little bit at the top and then refreeze and refreeze and refreeze and refreeze. And so it ends up that we have like a couple of inches of ice everywhere.
That's not good.
Which is not good. And the county, because remember in Virginia, everything is by counties. The county has done an actually extraordinary job of keeping interstates clear, of keeping major, the bigger side roads, not side roads, the bigger like non-interstate roads clear. You know, for example, my neighborhood dumps into one of the larger roads where we are. And that's bone dry. It's been dry basically this whole time. But when it comes to the neighborhoods, They justifiably didn't get to them in time to like really clear them when it was workable. And now we've got like two to three to four inches of ice on all of these neighborhood roads. And the county has basically said, It'll melt one day, I guess.
And so the kids, it's currently Wednesdays we record this. And at about noon today, the school system said, ah, screw it. We're out for the week. So that is the status of snowpocalypse. And then this coming weekend, we might get anywhere between two and 30 inches more snow. Although I think they're pumped the brakes on the 30 inches side of things. And I think it's going to be closer to like two to four, but that's, we have been below freezing as I'm sure you two very much have. We have been below freezing for a week almost, and we're not supposed to get above freezing until this coming Monday. So, you know, anything that hasn't been fairly well cleared, like, you know, Aaron and I and the kids went out and cleared about half of our driveway in order to make sure we could get out.
And anything that isn't mostly clear is just turning into ever thicker layers of ice. And then we might put a couple to 30 inches of snow on top of it, which is going to be super fun.
You went out and you shoveled half your driveway.
Yes. See, that's how you can tell he doesn't get a lot of snow. How about you shovel the whole driveway?
John, do you have any idea how f***ing hard it is to shovel under three inches of ice? You don't, because as much as you do know snow... I don't? You think I don't?
Believe me, I do. John lives in Boston. He knows.
Under ice. You get a metric a** ton of snow, but I don't think you get the ice we get.
We get every possible combination of snow you can imagine, including heavy, slushy, icy, everything.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is discussed at the start of this section?
0:00β0:21
2
What was the outcome of the snowpocalypse in Richmond?
0:21β5:45
3
How does the county handle snow and ice management?
5:45β9:15
4
What are the implications of the upcoming weather forecast?
9:15β1:16:38
5
What are the implications of John Ternus becoming CEO of Apple?
1:16:38β1:17:30
6
How does Ternus' leadership style differ from Tim Cook's?
1:17:30β1:18:54
7
What changes are happening in Apple's design leadership?
1:18:54β1:20:00
8
How does AI influence programming and development processes?
1:20:00β2:20:09