124: The Year of the Grid

Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.

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4.8 • 555 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2022

⏱️ 75 minutes

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That pleasantly floral scent you're detecting means it's time for another potpourri ep! This time we dive into the nitty gritty of our podcast workflow and Brad's forthcoming adventures with XLR recording chains, a laparoscopic trip report, the collapse of the Nvidia/ARM deal, Will's mad-scientist experiments in RGB synchronization, the perils of running double-digit hard drives at once, and more! Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod

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0:00.0	wordle is dead. What? Well, hang on. I don't necessarily disagree with you, but I also would
0:07.1	like to hear your rationale. Uh, well, okay, this has nothing to do with the New York Times things.
0:11.3	Like, like, I'm glad that the wordal guy got paid and like that's, I think that's cool.
0:16.2	Grid for him. He made something that made a lot of people happy. And now New York Times is going to monetize it somehow. I don't care. I already pay for this. We've already talked about this. Here's the, here's the why it's dead, though. This morning I learned about Quirtle. Could you repeat that? Actually, could you just spell that?
0:31.8	Q-U-O-R-D-L-E.com. What if instead of solving one wordle at one time, you solve four wordles with the same hints
0:40.7	and same clues.
0:42.1	Oh, wow.
0:43.1	Yeah.
0:44.0	It's like meta-wirtle.
0:45.3	Okay.
0:45.8	I'm clicking Daily Quirtle.
0:47.1	You shouldn't do it live.
0:48.5	Oh, my God.
0:48.5	I'm just closing this tab right now.
0:50.1	It's too many squares.
0:50.9	It's a lot of squares.
0:52.0	Let's see. This is one, two, three, four, five, six.
0:54.5	I think that's 12 across.
0:56.2	Oh, it's literally just four wordels.
0:58.0	No, no.
0:59.0	There's, I think, eight hints instead of six.
1:01.1	Yes, you get more guesses than wordal it looks like.
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