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Turbo Encabulator

Lygris (old account)Cited 3× on HN, 2017–2018
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comedy · general · evergreen · 2017–2018 on HN

A short comedy video of the Turbo Encabulator, a piece of technobabble nonsense describing an imaginary machine in deadpan engineering language.

HN uses it as a joke reply to threads full of dense or impenetrable technical jargon.

Satire & parodyMechanical & precision engineering#turboencabulator#engineeringhumor#technobabble#parody

3 comments from Hacker News

@sheltron2018-04 · in “Walt Disney's MultiPlane Camera (1957) [video]”

Wow these are really great thanks for sharing. Heres a couple of others that I like. Differential Steering: link Turbo Encabulator: ▶ this video

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@vinchuco2018-01 · in “The De Bruijn-Newman constant is non-negative”

This is not a case of the turbo encabulator [1] which you may seemingly enjoy. What he likely meant is that it is well known from the literature. Or there's an easy explanation that supersedes the verbose notation. [1] ▶ this video

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@nn32017-10 · in “Remote Maintenance of Molten Salt Reactors [video]”

The beginning narration sounds very similar (down to choice of words and sentences) to the famous Turbo Encabulator text ▶ this video

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