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Turbo Encabulator

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Lygris (old account)

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Cited on HN 3 times, 2017–2018, never outright recommended score 0

Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026

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

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

3 jokes · Comedy

Satire & parodyMechanical & precision engineering Comedy Arts, Comedy, Music & Film

3 Hacker News comments

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@nn3 Oct 2017 Makes a joke

on HN thread 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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@vinchuco Jan 2018 Makes a joke

on HN thread 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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@sheltron Apr 2018 Makes a joke

on HN thread 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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