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Turboencabulator

121 points by plibither8 5y ago

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leetrout 5y ago
If you enjoy turboencabulators and havent been active in the scene for a while please join us at https://www.reddit.com/r/vxjunkies/ https://www.reddit.com/r/vxjunkies/ The latest quantocabulator tech is being produced in Japan from a spinoff from VX.
- lake_vincent 5y ago
  Thanks for this. I hear D-Wave is working on super symmetrical turbotopology, and I'm extremely excited about the Lambert cohomology research breakthroughs that might come from this incredibly important work.
- belter 5y ago
  There really must be a Reddit group for everything :-) Is there a Reddit group about Reddit groups?
  - moffkalast 5y ago
    That's just called r/all
  - pas 5y ago
    there are countless subreddits discussing other subreddits, eg. shitRedditSays, subredditDrama, circlebroke, AgainstHateSubreddits. There is bestof, DepthHub, etc. There's subreddit of the month also :)
mindcrime 5y ago
WTB: 124 lbs of prefabulated amulite. Willing to pay top dollar, or trade a lot of 42 NOS Spurving Bearings and a case of lunar wane-shafts.
jewel 5y ago
Someone shared this video yesterday on the Boston Dynamics post, which has the same intonation and general feel as the encabulator videos. I don't have enough experience to know if it's an homage or if lots of sales videos still sound like this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB9T-I7Fh7U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB9T-I7Fh7U
- rtkwe 5y ago
  That's an old standard voice. The encabulator videos sound like they do because it was the default style and cadence for a demo/sales video.
- duxup 5y ago
  The whole concept of “These people could get hurt (let’s put them out of work).” Is always a bit creepy.
  - Ice_cream_suit 5y ago
    Those people then cost the company millions in compensation claims. (Speaking as a person who has several million dollars of compensations claims sitting on my desk that I need to do reports on ).
    - duxup 5y ago
      I don’t doubt it.
fnord77 5y ago
that's like a star trek TNG script
- chriscjcj 5y ago
  This one comes to mind. :-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5EaoSA02LM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5EaoSA02LM
droptablemain 5y ago
Related: Rockwell Retro Encabulator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXJKdh1KZ0w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXJKdh1KZ0w
- ImprovedSilence 5y ago
  Direct link to turboencabulator vid: https://youtu.be/Ac7G7xOG2Ag https://youtu.be/Ac7G7xOG2Ag
- chriscjcj 5y ago
  The guy on this video is just so good. He has to have done lots of TV anchoring or has lots of reps doing something similar. Anyway, he's delivers every line perfectly. I don't know why, but I always get a little extra chuckle at 0:25 and 0:52 when the door hinge squeaks.
  - jodrellblank 5y ago
    He does have a lot of similar experience: "I used to do live stand-up presentations for Allen Bradley at various "automations fairs" and industrial trade shows. This was totally straight, no humor involved. I also did quite a few internal videos for AB. Their headquarters is in Milwaukee, and Jon Wright, the Director of Corporate Training (now retired) would have me fly in to do training films on occasion. On one occasion, I did an impromptu version of the Turbo Encabulator (the original version) that had been done on a Chrysler Technician training shoot, which I have been doing for about 20 years." and "How on earth did you memorize the script? I do the performance using a wireless ear prompter, and just repeat what I hear." - http://www.plcdev.com/an_interview_with_mike_kraft http://www.plcdev.com/an_interview_with_mike_kraft
- scarier 5y ago
  Loosely related: a lecture on missile guidance laws... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZe5J8SVCYQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZe5J8SVCYQ
duxup 5y ago
> It’s just the fact that so many people have had to sit through so many educational/industrial videos that look and sound just like this one and they're dead serious and deadly dull. At my first “real” job they had a tradition of 6 months of training. When I joined the company they were too busy to hold actual training classes so I watched very old VHS tapes of even older classes…. taught by the engineers who designed the product… for other engineers who also already knew the product. It was all Turboencabulator word salad. In an infamous moment I’ll never forget an engineer picked up a stack of papers and paged threw it and found his page and held that one page toward the camera (sitting at the back of the room) and “showed” us the code he wrote and asked the camera person to zoom in…..
- Forge36 5y ago
  ... did you work at my employer?
  - duxup 5y ago
    Upper Midwest tech company 20 years ago?
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icambron 5y ago
I love how much English writing has changed since then. You'd never say "in such a way that" or "so fitted" or "every seventh conductor being connected". The entire prose style can change but the joke can still be perfectly on point
- causality0 5y ago
  The latter two yes, but "in such a way that" is not uncommon.
  - icambron 5y ago
    I suppose you can still find that sequence of words, but I think it usually coveys happenstance, not intention, as it does here. This sentence reads as very dated to me: > The original machine had a base plate of prefabulated amulite, surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing in such a way that the two main spurving bearings were in a direct line with the panametric fan. In modernese: > The original machine's base plate is made of prefabulated amulite, surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing designed to line up the two main spurving bearings directly with the panametric fan. Still not great writing but doesn't trip my age sensors. It's not just the "in such a way" but also the use of "of" for material composition. "A coat of wool" etc Edit: reorganized for clarity
    - eesmith 5y ago
      I think "intention" isn't quite the right way to characterize it. I do think you are correct. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=%22in%20such%20a%20way%20that%22&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... shows mostly intention: > "for the most part dApps are purposely written in such a way that they can be easily integrated with other dApps" - (2 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29730055 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29730055 > "just like an auction (generally) wants to design their auction in such a way that people are honest about their willingness to pay" - (3 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29725278 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29725278 > "you'll end up listing it in such a way that people will figure out what this position is worth to you" - (3 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29722240 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29722240 Scanning to find one which was a closer fit to the quoted example: > "The light from that line is then passed through a dispersive element (optical grating, prism) in such a way that a spectrum is generated perpendicular to the scanned line." - (17 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29557861 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29557861 That's the only such I found after scanning through 19 pages / 4 months of comments. That is, most of the HN comments use the phrase to describe a class of possibilities, or state the intention but not the actual solution, rather describe the intention behind a specific design.
bitwize 5y ago
"But with Wilson countersink flanges and Dorry flanges, hydraulic torque is allowed to bypass the settling clutch, providing steady wall pressure to the lug manifold and all seismic rotors. And that goes for 7000 RQMs, 8000 RQMs, even 10,000 RQMs!"
- dylan604 5y ago
  Yeah, but how's the seek time affected on the reticulating magneto heads when the hydraulic torque is off by 1/1000th milli-Netwon-bars of mercury inches? And does it affect the read and write times equally?
  - bitwize 5y ago
    https://youtu.be/cDsRXhtHW9Q https://youtu.be/cDsRXhtHW9Q
impetus1 5y ago
A real life "inator" -doofenshrmirtz
dylan604 5y ago
So is this the type of text that trained GPT3?
errcorrectcode 5y ago
The nano hyper turboencabulator is gonna be great when it finally comes out. The turboencabulator is so 1960's.
jodrellblank 5y ago
I wonder whether "so fitted [...] that side fumbling was effectively prevented." implies other fittings were tried but did not prevent side fumbling and this mounting does so, or that this fitting is known to be sub-optimal and does not prevent side fumbling completely but does so well enough.
- jsiaajdsdaa 5y ago
  in my opinion, "the object is fastened in such a way that side-fumbling happens more rarely"
- MereInterest 5y ago
  I had interpreted "side fumbling" as a failure mode that has solid theory establishing that it cannot be removed entirely, and will be present no matter the design of the encabulator. However, some configurations are more vulnerable to side fumbling than others, and while it cannot be avoided entirely, this configuration does effectively prevent it.
myrandomcomment 5y ago
Here is the fun take - https://youtu.be/RXJKdh1KZ0w https://youtu.be/RXJKdh1KZ0w And the original - https://youtu.be/Ac7G7xOG2Ag https://youtu.be/Ac7G7xOG2Ag Also curious as this was on Twitter the other day...how social mixed if this is the OPs reason for sharing.
- plibither8 5y ago
  Haha unfortunately that wasn't the reason. I had posted this first back in April of 2021, but got an email today from @dang to repost this as it's gonna go in the second-chance pool. :P
  - myrandomcomment 5y ago
    Thanks for answering!
  - moh_maya 5y ago
    @dang thank you! For sheparding this site and building in humanity. Wish you and yours a fantastic year ahead!
- scarier 5y ago
  Somewhat related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZe5J8SVCYQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZe5J8SVCYQ
  - tech5000 5y ago
    Encabulator inspired? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5-9Rfrui9A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5-9Rfrui9A
pontifk8r 5y ago
Try this modern take: https://youtu.be/-F-IHvF5OCA https://youtu.be/-F-IHvF5OCA BTW The series is totally worth watching.
- phaedrus441 5y ago
  Patriot is an amazing show and I was looking for someone to post this clip! Don’t forget Leslie’s original rendition: https://youtu.be/yyfMphjo4t4 https://youtu.be/yyfMphjo4t4
maltalex 5y ago
Looks like there's an SD-WAN Turbo Cloud version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LOF7KM7UhY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LOF7KM7UhY
kingcharles 5y ago
Huh, this reminds of the Statiophonicoxygeneticamplifiergraphafonadelaverberator. Kind of hard to imagine the world before we had them, isn't it?
Klaster_1 5y ago
Hey, I read that page yesterday while trying to explain a variation on the topic to a friend after sharing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEnj18pKeJM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEnj18pKeJM with him. Highly recommend the Ian Davis channel if you are interested in DIY or fascinated by engineering in general.
moffkalast 5y ago
Not to be confused with the discombobulator
willis936 5y ago
I've always preferred the feature set of Write-Only Memory to the Turboencabulator. It's just a product of my line of work requiring many DC buffers. Also, not many chips have a chip destruct signal input. http://repeater-builder.com/molotora/gontor/25120-bw.pdf http://repeater-builder.com/molotora/gontor/25120-bw.pdf
liamdgray 5y ago
If you like this, you may love the two season series /Patriot/ on Amazon Prime Video.
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black_13 5y ago
iggldiggl 5y ago
Apparently available for sale from IMS: https://www.imssupply.com/catalog/general-electric/hbk-8359.html https://www.imssupply.com/catalog/general-electric/hbk-8359.... :)

121 points by plibither8 5y ago

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If you enjoy turboencabulators and havent been active in the scene for a while please join us at https://www.reddit.com/r/vxjunkies/ https://www.reddit.com/r/vxjunkies/ The latest quantocabulator tech is being produced in Japan from a spinoff from VX.

lake_vincent 5y ago
Thanks for this. I hear D-Wave is working on super symmetrical turbotopology, and I'm extremely excited about the Lambert cohomology research breakthroughs that might come from this incredibly important work.
belter 5y ago
There really must be a Reddit group for everything :-) Is there a Reddit group about Reddit groups?
- moffkalast 5y ago
  That's just called r/all
- pas 5y ago
  there are countless subreddits discussing other subreddits, eg. shitRedditSays, subredditDrama, circlebroke, AgainstHateSubreddits. There is bestof, DepthHub, etc. There's subreddit of the month also :)

mindcrime 5y ago

WTB: 124 lbs of prefabulated amulite. Willing to pay top dollar, or trade a lot of 42 NOS Spurving Bearings and a case of lunar wane-shafts.

jewel 5y ago

Someone shared this video yesterday on the Boston Dynamics post, which has the same intonation and general feel as the encabulator videos. I don't have enough experience to know if it's an homage or if lots of sales videos still sound like this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB9T-I7Fh7U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB9T-I7Fh7U

rtkwe 5y ago
That's an old standard voice. The encabulator videos sound like they do because it was the default style and cadence for a demo/sales video.
duxup 5y ago
The whole concept of “These people could get hurt (let’s put them out of work).” Is always a bit creepy.
- Ice_cream_suit 5y ago
  Those people then cost the company millions in compensation claims. (Speaking as a person who has several million dollars of compensations claims sitting on my desk that I need to do reports on ).
  - duxup 5y ago
    I don’t doubt it.

fnord77 5y ago

that's like a star trek TNG script

chriscjcj 5y ago
This one comes to mind. :-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5EaoSA02LM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5EaoSA02LM

droptablemain 5y ago

Related: Rockwell Retro Encabulator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXJKdh1KZ0w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXJKdh1KZ0w

ImprovedSilence 5y ago
Direct link to turboencabulator vid: https://youtu.be/Ac7G7xOG2Ag https://youtu.be/Ac7G7xOG2Ag
chriscjcj 5y ago
The guy on this video is just so good. He has to have done lots of TV anchoring or has lots of reps doing something similar. Anyway, he's delivers every line perfectly. I don't know why, but I always get a little extra chuckle at 0:25 and 0:52 when the door hinge squeaks.
- jodrellblank 5y ago
  He does have a lot of similar experience: "I used to do live stand-up presentations for Allen Bradley at various "automations fairs" and industrial trade shows. This was totally straight, no humor involved. I also did quite a few internal videos for AB. Their headquarters is in Milwaukee, and Jon Wright, the Director of Corporate Training (now retired) would have me fly in to do training films on occasion. On one occasion, I did an impromptu version of the Turbo Encabulator (the original version) that had been done on a Chrysler Technician training shoot, which I have been doing for about 20 years." and "How on earth did you memorize the script? I do the performance using a wireless ear prompter, and just repeat what I hear." - http://www.plcdev.com/an_interview_with_mike_kraft http://www.plcdev.com/an_interview_with_mike_kraft
scarier 5y ago
Loosely related: a lecture on missile guidance laws... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZe5J8SVCYQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZe5J8SVCYQ

duxup 5y ago

> It’s just the fact that so many people have had to sit through so many educational/industrial videos that look and sound just like this one and they're dead serious and deadly dull. At my first “real” job they had a tradition of 6 months of training. When I joined the company they were too busy to hold actual training classes so I watched very old VHS tapes of even older classes…. taught by the engineers who designed the product… for other engineers who also already knew the product. It was all Turboencabulator word salad. In an infamous moment I’ll never forget an engineer picked up a stack of papers and paged threw it and found his page and held that one page toward the camera (sitting at the back of the room) and “showed” us the code he wrote and asked the camera person to zoom in…..

Forge36 5y ago
... did you work at my employer?
- duxup 5y ago
  Upper Midwest tech company 20 years ago?
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icambron 5y ago

I love how much English writing has changed since then. You'd never say "in such a way that" or "so fitted" or "every seventh conductor being connected". The entire prose style can change but the joke can still be perfectly on point

causality0 5y ago
The latter two yes, but "in such a way that" is not uncommon.
- icambron 5y ago
  I suppose you can still find that sequence of words, but I think it usually coveys happenstance, not intention, as it does here. This sentence reads as very dated to me: > The original machine had a base plate of prefabulated amulite, surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing in such a way that the two main spurving bearings were in a direct line with the panametric fan. In modernese: > The original machine's base plate is made of prefabulated amulite, surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing designed to line up the two main spurving bearings directly with the panametric fan. Still not great writing but doesn't trip my age sensors. It's not just the "in such a way" but also the use of "of" for material composition. "A coat of wool" etc Edit: reorganized for clarity
  - eesmith 5y ago
    I think "intention" isn't quite the right way to characterize it. I do think you are correct. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=%22in%20such%20a%20way%20that%22&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... shows mostly intention: > "for the most part dApps are purposely written in such a way that they can be easily integrated with other dApps" - (2 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29730055 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29730055 > "just like an auction (generally) wants to design their auction in such a way that people are honest about their willingness to pay" - (3 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29725278 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29725278 > "you'll end up listing it in such a way that people will figure out what this position is worth to you" - (3 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29722240 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29722240 Scanning to find one which was a closer fit to the quoted example: > "The light from that line is then passed through a dispersive element (optical grating, prism) in such a way that a spectrum is generated perpendicular to the scanned line." - (17 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29557861 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29557861 That's the only such I found after scanning through 19 pages / 4 months of comments. That is, most of the HN comments use the phrase to describe a class of possibilities, or state the intention but not the actual solution, rather describe the intention behind a specific design.

bitwize 5y ago

"But with Wilson countersink flanges and Dorry flanges, hydraulic torque is allowed to bypass the settling clutch, providing steady wall pressure to the lug manifold and all seismic rotors. And that goes for 7000 RQMs, 8000 RQMs, even 10,000 RQMs!"

dylan604 5y ago
Yeah, but how's the seek time affected on the reticulating magneto heads when the hydraulic torque is off by 1/1000th milli-Netwon-bars of mercury inches? And does it affect the read and write times equally?
- bitwize 5y ago
  https://youtu.be/cDsRXhtHW9Q https://youtu.be/cDsRXhtHW9Q

impetus1 5y ago

A real life "inator" -doofenshrmirtz

dylan604 5y ago

So is this the type of text that trained GPT3?

errcorrectcode 5y ago

The nano hyper turboencabulator is gonna be great when it finally comes out. The turboencabulator is so 1960's.

jodrellblank 5y ago

I wonder whether "so fitted [...] that side fumbling was effectively prevented." implies other fittings were tried but did not prevent side fumbling and this mounting does so, or that this fitting is known to be sub-optimal and does not prevent side fumbling completely but does so well enough.

jsiaajdsdaa 5y ago
in my opinion, "the object is fastened in such a way that side-fumbling happens more rarely"
MereInterest 5y ago
I had interpreted "side fumbling" as a failure mode that has solid theory establishing that it cannot be removed entirely, and will be present no matter the design of the encabulator. However, some configurations are more vulnerable to side fumbling than others, and while it cannot be avoided entirely, this configuration does effectively prevent it.

myrandomcomment 5y ago

Here is the fun take - https://youtu.be/RXJKdh1KZ0w https://youtu.be/RXJKdh1KZ0w And the original - https://youtu.be/Ac7G7xOG2Ag https://youtu.be/Ac7G7xOG2Ag Also curious as this was on Twitter the other day...how social mixed if this is the OPs reason for sharing.

plibither8 5y ago
Haha unfortunately that wasn't the reason. I had posted this first back in April of 2021, but got an email today from @dang to repost this as it's gonna go in the second-chance pool. :P
- myrandomcomment 5y ago
  Thanks for answering!
- moh_maya 5y ago
  @dang thank you! For sheparding this site and building in humanity. Wish you and yours a fantastic year ahead!
scarier 5y ago
Somewhat related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZe5J8SVCYQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZe5J8SVCYQ
- tech5000 5y ago
  Encabulator inspired? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5-9Rfrui9A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5-9Rfrui9A

pontifk8r 5y ago

Try this modern take: https://youtu.be/-F-IHvF5OCA https://youtu.be/-F-IHvF5OCA BTW The series is totally worth watching.

phaedrus441 5y ago
Patriot is an amazing show and I was looking for someone to post this clip! Don’t forget Leslie’s original rendition: https://youtu.be/yyfMphjo4t4 https://youtu.be/yyfMphjo4t4

maltalex 5y ago

Looks like there's an SD-WAN Turbo Cloud version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LOF7KM7UhY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LOF7KM7UhY

kingcharles 5y ago

Huh, this reminds of the Statiophonicoxygeneticamplifiergraphafonadelaverberator. Kind of hard to imagine the world before we had them, isn't it?

Klaster_1 5y ago

Hey, I read that page yesterday while trying to explain a variation on the topic to a friend after sharing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEnj18pKeJM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEnj18pKeJM with him. Highly recommend the Ian Davis channel if you are interested in DIY or fascinated by engineering in general.

moffkalast 5y ago

Not to be confused with the discombobulator

willis936 5y ago

I've always preferred the feature set of Write-Only Memory to the Turboencabulator. It's just a product of my line of work requiring many DC buffers. Also, not many chips have a chip destruct signal input. http://repeater-builder.com/molotora/gontor/25120-bw.pdf http://repeater-builder.com/molotora/gontor/25120-bw.pdf

liamdgray 5y ago

If you like this, you may love the two season series /Patriot/ on Amazon Prime Video.

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black_13 5y ago

iggldiggl 5y ago

Apparently available for sale from IMS: https://www.imssupply.com/catalog/general-electric/hbk-8359.html https://www.imssupply.com/catalog/general-electric/hbk-8359.... :)