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.
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
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.
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."
> 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…..
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
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
> "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
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
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.
This might be pedantic, but your rewriting seems to assume intent where there may have been none. The phrase "in such a way" is adverbial, modifying "surmounted" in the original, but your "designed" is adjectival, modifying "casing."
Since the casing is supposed to be malleable, it might not have necessarily been designed to line up the bearings, and it was only through a particular way of surmounting the casing that got them lined up.
"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!"
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?
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.
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.
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
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 with him. Highly recommend the Ian Davis channel if you are interested in DIY or fascinated by engineering in general.
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.
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 136 ms ] threadThe latest quantocabulator tech is being produced in Japan from a spinoff from VX.
There is bestof, DepthHub, etc.
There's subreddit of the month also :)
Willing to pay top dollar, or trade a lot of 42 NOS Spurving Bearings and a case of lunar wane-shafts.
(Speaking as a person who has several million dollars of compensations claims sitting on my desk that I need to do reports on ).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5EaoSA02LM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXJKdh1KZ0w
I don't know why, but I always get a little extra chuckle at 0:25 and 0:52 when the door hinge squeaks.
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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZe5J8SVCYQ
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…..
> 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
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
> "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
> "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
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
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.
Since the casing is supposed to be malleable, it might not have necessarily been designed to line up the bearings, and it was only through a particular way of surmounting the casing that got them lined up.
https://youtu.be/RXJKdh1KZ0w
And the original -
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.
Wish you and yours a fantastic year ahead!
BTW The series is totally worth watching.
Don’t forget Leslie’s original rendition: https://youtu.be/yyfMphjo4t4
Kind of hard to imagine the world before we had them, isn't it?
http://repeater-builder.com/molotora/gontor/25120-bw.pdf