Rockwell Retro Encabulator [video]

[axiomdata316]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXJKdh1KZ0w

[pants2]

Throwback. Even though people called for the end of Filmore's law years ago, today's Turbo Encabulators have more than 1,000 times the sinusoidal deplanaration control. Crazy to think that they were worried about side fumbling just 15 years ago.

[junon → pants2]

This was the video that sparked my interest in modial interactions of magneto reluctance, for which I just finished my bachelor's. Crazy how far we've come with capacitive diractance since then.

[CapstanRoller → pants2]

They should've kept the original base-plate of prefabulated amulite. Too much profit-driven "optimization" IMHO

[jszymborski → CapstanRoller]

We need to end the amulite cargo culting. People just say this stuff because prefabulating amulite is more expensive than alternating the magnetoreluctance in software so the load on the phase detractors and cardinal grammetres is completely disappated by a few extra spurving barrings.

I've totally had it with these amulite hipsters.

[matheusmoreira → pants2]

The rotational velocidensity is still quite low though... When will they improve this?

[datameta]

What a legacy. Practically pioneered a new field single-handedly. And a few decades later they did it again! https://youtu.be/5nKk_-Lvhzo?si=fDThIHMS9V1joh-t

Some will say the toroidal de-synchronizer firmware didn't need a significant refactor but those folks are probably still using memory unsafe languages with their 1978 V1.1 differential vortex limiter module.

[bitwize → datameta]

Rewrite it in Rust!

[pohl]

See also Leslie's iconic piping speech from the brief but excellent series Patriot:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kx3ivkUPT6k

[qwertox → pohl]

I was about to post this, it's excellent. I also like the depressing tone of the series, a bit like Mr. Robot.

Wait, I've just clicked your link, I thought you were referring to the scene of the presentation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F-IHvF5OCA&t=34s

[manoDev]

Now you know how the non-technical CEO feels during the meeting with the dev team.

[H8crilA]

It's also important to know where you are (by knowing where you aren't): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZe5J8SVCYQ

There's also a version for when you need that little bit of extra motivation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q11oxUGvi8g

[willis936]

I still reach my trusty 25120 when I have data I don't care about.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160313132244/https://dl.dropbo...

[dmd]

There's a subreddit full of this stuff - https://www.reddit.com/r/VXJunkies/ - with some great writing in it.

[a1o → dmd]

If someone needs the old link https://old.reddit.com/r/VXJunkies/

[darksim905 → a1o]

is there a 'name' for these types of troll videos?

[pyinstallwoes → dmd]

Sometimes I get fooled by that sub.

[andrewstuart]

Hard to believe the Encabulator is still being developed after all these years.

Those guys were light years ahead when it first came out.

I think the formula for success for the Encabulator must have been licensing because if you search YouTube for Encabulator you'll find a vast array of companies developed Encabulator based products.

[causality0]

I don't know why people are always posting the Rockwell version when the older Turbo Emcabulator video is far superior.

https://youtu.be/Ac7G7xOG2Ag?si=YrRZEJvcVQh19p7p

[PTOB → causality0]

Amen. That deadpan price tag drop at the end.

[niccl]

And then there's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IgF6_jVaj8

[gojomo]

People don't realize how dependent modern US industry depends on encabulators from China.

[dev_tty01]

Classic.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

[bitwize]

I hope they used Wilson countersink flanges. You do NOT want hydraulic torque leakthrough on your encabulator, the prantkens lost can settle through the seismic clutch bivalve and induce a failover cascade, becoming very dangerous.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cDsRXhtHW9Q

[mgdlbp]

https://ncatlab.org/nlab/all_pages

;-D

[theodric → mgdlbp]

What the actual hell is this? Have people really gone to this much effort to write a backstory for a comedic skit?

[gqcwwjtg → theodric]

That’s genuine metamathematics, only one joke in there https://ncatlab.org/nlab/list/joke

[theodric → gqcwwjtg]

Any sufficiently-advanced mathematics is indistinguishable from technobabble, I guess

[smudgy]

There was one of these about IT that made my mind melt - I understood all the words but it didn't make sense and I kinda mentally blanked out to the point I don't even remember what it was (but I'm sure it was on youtube as I saw it on Cytu.be).

I watched it a few times but then it just vanished and I never found it again.

A shame I didn't save it.

[_a_a_a_ → smudgy]

> I understood all the words but it didn't make sense and I kinda mentally blanked out

Was probably about Git.

[buttocks → smudgy]

Could it have been the SANS hyper encabulator video? (Same guy)

[niccl]

and possibly slightly relevant,: Not the Nine o'clock news seleling/buying hifi equipment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvswW6M7bMo

[_a_a_a_ → niccl]

That's strange, I always thought that sketch (which I've only ever knew audio-only) was Monty python. No idea it was NTNoN

[HenryBemis]

I also find fascinating how they make a Plumbus!!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eMJk4y9NGvE

[namuol]

I don’t know what all the fuss is about. It’s a perfectly cromulent promo video.

[lacrimacida]

Technobabble at its best

[Nihilartikel]

It is peak hacker news that nobody, Nobody, here can suppress their techno optimism for long enough to acknowledge that this technology is in the direct lineage of the humanitarian disaster brought about by the Eschatron 9000.

I'm out..