Turbo Encabulator
Lygris (old account)0 HN recommenders · 2017–2018
2.4M views · comedy · evergreen · Uploaded 2007-08-24
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.
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3 comments from Hacker News
The beginning narration sounds very similar (down to choice of words and sentences) to the famous Turbo Encabulator text [VIDEO]
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] [VIDEO]
Wow these are really great thanks for sharing. Heres a couple of others that I like. Differential Steering: [LINK] Turbo Encabulator: [VIDEO]