Turboencabulator
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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 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 :)
And the original -
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!
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."
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 ).
BTW The series is totally worth watching.
Don’t forget Leslie’s original rendition: https://youtu.be/yyfMphjo4t4
> 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.
Kind of hard to imagine the world before we had them, isn't it?