677: I Accept the Battery Cost
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How did the 'icepocalypse' affect the hosts' schedules and family life?
As I sit here tonight, the kids have a two-hour delay tomorrow, and they are finally going back to school on Thursday. They have not been in school since, what day was that, January 23rd? Wait, really?
So this whole ICE period, they haven't been in school since then?
That's right. That's right. So we got the snow, I think, 24th, 25th weekend. Then we were, well, snow and ice. I shouldn't say the snow was really the ice. That was a problem. We're off all last week, 26 through 30. We're off Monday. We're off Tuesday. Well, I shouldn't say off. They did asynchronous learning, which means they did a bunch of busy work Monday, Tuesday, and today, which is Wednesday, Tuesday. It's Thursday the 5th. They're finally going back after a two-hour delay. And I feel terrible for Erin in particular because I've been up here working in the office. The kids have been downstairs in the dining room doing their busy work and asking Erin questions incessantly all day long for the last three days.
Erin loves her children more than she loves anything in the world, including, I think, me potentially. And I think she's very ready for them to go back. potentially uh yeah i think i i don't know so there's days that i do okay that you might like me a smidge more but don't ruin my moment here john uh but anyways the point is uh icepocalypse is finally over and i am very thankful All right, well, let's do some follow-up, and I would like to say that I've been vindicated, and in congratulations to John, or maybe not congratulations, but in thanks to John for putting this into the show notes, even though my conversions to metric are generally trashed, they at least get us in the ballpark, and many people wrote in to say, hey, that's helpful.
I mean, I'm not sure if it's vindication, but you have your supporters, let's say. There are people out there who love to hear you stumble through trying to convert in your head between units that you're not familiar with.
That's right. Vindicated.
I feel like I'm okay with you continuing to put in metric units if you use kind of the less common intervals of them. Like, you know, like I'm currently drinking about 25 centiliters of a non-alcoholic Guinness tonight.
Yeah, like the only metric unit that I think most Americans are familiar with, and some people pointed this out to us, is I think we know centimeters, because as someone pointed out, like lots of our rulers have inches on one side and centimeters on the other. So I have a kind of intuitive understanding of centimeters. And then a meter, we just be like, well, it's like a yard. Right, right. But yeah, kilometers and kilograms, forget it.
Nope, I got nothing on that.
And then some of the people, I love how some of the people supporting your unit conversions couldn't help but snark about Fahrenheit too. They're just going to get that jab at even when they're trying to support you.
Right. The thing of it is, I don't plan to relitigate this because we have a lot of stuff to talk about, but we get everything wrong. Inches are wrong. Ounces are wrong. Pounds are wrong. Yards are wrong. Everything is wrong. Everything is wrong. Except Fahrenheit. Fahrenheit. For ambient air temperatures, we got right. It's a percentage of hot. And I will tell you, it is a fact that if you have half degrees on your goddamn thermostats, you failed. That is a failure of your whole system. Celsius for ambient air temperatures is trash. You can use it for cooking. I'm good with that. I'll use it for cooking. I mean, I don't because I'm an idiot and I'm an American, but I'm full support for cooking. If you want to take your internal body temperature in Celsius, whatever, that's fine.
Anywhere else other than what is the temperature outside. I don't care if water is cold, y'all. I care if I'm cold. And so... And I think it's hilarious that all these people that make fun of Americans because of, oh, we're stupid units and whatnot, seem to have this inability to remember the numeral, or the number 32. Like, all these people who are so smart, and look at us with our base 10 units, man, man, man, look at our fancy paper that makes sense, unlike yours, which doesn't.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
How did the 'icepocalypse' affect the hosts' schedules and family life?
0:00–4:14
2
What are practical authentication alternatives to passkeys for Cloudflare apps?
4:14–42:38
3
How do dynamic backlights, per‑pixel control, and MicroLED compare for TVs?
42:38–1:01:03
4
How did Google Maps replace Waze and Apple Maps for the hosts' navigation needs?
1:01:03–1:03:24
5
Why did Casey switch back to Google Search, Chrome, and change browser autofill habits?
1:03:24–1:10:59
6
What does Xcode 26.3's agentic coding support mean for developers?
1:10:59–1:21:52
7
How will AI agents and agentic coding reshape software development and jobs?
1:21:52–2:01:29