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Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.

73: Thirteen Issues a Year

Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.

Nice Segue, LLC

Tech, Smartphone, Phone, Videogame, Microsoft, Games, Apple, Space, Science, Techpod, Society & Culture, Tesla, Technology, Android, Electric Car, Amazon, Smart Phone, Tech Pod, Google, Video Game, Ios

4.8555 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Will used to work for a tech magazine. Brad always wanted to. We both read more than our fair share back in the day. So let's talk magazines! In this ep we look back on those mammoth issues of Computer Shopper, our love of the PC Gamer demo CD, embargoes and print deadlines, Will's years in the magazine mines, what the (bumpy) transition from print to online was like, and lots 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

So after we talked about Hitman on the patron episode this week, I started thinking about it.

0:08.2

And I was like, do you think you could make a Hitman level that's a Turing complete state machine?

0:14.9

Whoa.

0:16.7

Because if you think about it, each of those, each of the people is a transistor.

0:22.6

Well, is a is a is a is a is a is a is a switch. Yeah. And they're symbols. Right. Yeah. Like like if you if you kill the photographer Helmut Kruger's loop starts working differently. That's true. Can you pass and they pass, characters can pass state from one to the other.

0:40.5

So could you build a hitman level that is a Turing complete state machine with the ability to do

0:48.0

combination of logic, finite states, push down all that stuff and get to the point that you

0:53.6

could actually do computation

0:55.2

with murder.

0:57.9

Can I assume that the on-off state in this analogy is represented by alive and dead?

1:02.9

I mean, the problem with the on-off state is it's probably a one-way transition for most of the

1:06.4

people.

1:06.7

That's a good point.

1:08.9

But there's always more people is the way I'm thinking about it.

1:11.9

It's true.

1:12.7

Yes.

1:13.2

Maybe it's not the named characters.

1:15.2

Maybe it's like the janitor.

1:16.9

So they just replaced the old janitor with a new janitor.

1:19.6

And then, you know, magic time.

1:22.0

Wouldn't you need?

1:23.1

You probably need thousands of Agent 47s to actually power operations at more than like one every

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