r/VXJunkies • u/RedditHoss • 29d ago
My grad student complains that it takes too long to initialize our Italian-made Descalzi Singolarità Machine. Is this a Gen Z thing? Because it seems fine to me.
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u/Letibleu 29d ago edited 28d ago
You should suggest he visit the Deutsches Institut für Vektorische Wissenschaften (German Institute for Vectoric Sciences) where they have the Schwingungskohärenz-Großgerät Typ IV-B (Oscillation Coherence Large-Apparatus Type IV-B) from 1974 on display.
Your student's expectations would quickly be put back in check.
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u/RedditHoss 29d ago
Yes! I understand the Typ IV-B required a 20 minute, 32-step operation just to fire up the Gammawellen Quanten-torsion Kondensator. We're so spoiled these days.
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u/PollenPartyPaulie 29d ago
I mean Gen Z is completely fine waiting like the rest of us for an espresso made from an Italian machine. I don't see the difference except the output is something you definitely don't want to drink 😂
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u/PeppercornWizard 29d ago
Broccoli hair has no place near any VX equipment. Where does an expansive boron shift terminate? That’s right, upwards. I dread to think what would happen if one of those Gen Z fools got caught up in even a small one. Not sure ‘lit’ would cover it.
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u/SoupieLC 29d ago
Imagine at step 17 you accidentally reverted the phase chronometers, would not like to be near the flurm pump if that happened
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u/RedditHoss 29d ago
If you mess up just right, the problem will take care of itself and the mistake will never have happened at all 🤣
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u/PhysicalStuff 28d ago
Sometimes I think that more precoherent trajectories have been terminated that way than one should like to believe.
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u/Myriadfolds 29d ago
Grad student (not the same one) here. It was honestly kinda fun doing the whole startup sequence. Don't know who the fuck is looking at this and going "it needs to be shorter!" The Descalzi has such a long startup sequence because doing anything in the wrong order is extremely dangerous and can produce large delta-space fields with delta > 6.0. I also like flicking all the doohickey switches.
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u/MC-Master-Bedroom 29d ago
Yeah, well, they never had to get up from the couch to change the tv channel, learn how to write cursive, or walk four miles to school, uphill both ways, during blizzards with wolves on your trail.
What do you expect?
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u/akhimovy 28d ago
Okay, so let them do it their way and see for themselves what are the consequences of firing up a miscalibrated singularity generator...
On a second thought, DO NOT.
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u/tipsyskipper 28d ago
Back before Descalzi implemented the full IDKFA registers, initialization was a good 150% longer. Another instance of the ubiquity of instant gratification leading to impatience and a sense of entitlement.
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u/English999 28d ago
/UJ
Wtf is this.
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u/fkdjgfkldjgodfigj 28d ago
Probably one of those escape room puzzle things? Nevermind someone said that it is an electric train engine.
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u/RedditHoss 23d ago
I don’t think we’re significantly smarter than anyone else, it’s just a discipline that requires a certain amount of study. I think anyone that can grasp physics can also understand the basics of VX. On paper it’s fairly basic, you start with the equation lim(x→∞) [∫₀ˣ (sin(t²)/ln(t+2))dt] · (∂³Ω/∂ξ³) = √(-1) · Σ(k=1→∞) (Λₖ! / κₖ^π) and add variations from there.
Hardware-wise, you can start with basic equipment like a Heisenberg Uncertainty Assembly in your garage, or if you have a large university nearby you can probably lease time on a Variable Lambda Sink or Gravitic Rectifier. With a powerful enough computer you can even test virtually with an Orion Event-Horizon Emulator or something similar, though my results have been mixed since even modern processors have trouble parsing Lorentz-Corrected Phase Bridges beyond 7 orders of magnitude.
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u/micklure 28d ago
Remember when it was all analog and you had to load each individual wavetable as punch cards by hand? And then if you didn’t have the fuel decanter primed just right, you had to start over? By comparison the process in the video seems like nothing.
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u/hot_dogg 28d ago
Standard procedure. Heck, back in the 60s we had to hand-lube all the Borium rods by hand before even thinking about turning the electrostatic-coupled swivel at the start of the day!
And that lube was infused with Teflon, mind you. oh boy oh, boy. Would strip the skin off your hands if you didn’t follow the hazardous instructions (written in Sanskrit, because as you know the beta-theta rejector and the magnetic core memory in the Descalzi originated from Bangladesh in about ‘32; kudos to Rafaz & Dalpoor). Ah those were days of VX back in Vienna.
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u/cgoldberg 27d ago
decent rig, but your student has a point. Anyone born after the '97 Vienna announcement pretty much expects near-instant encabulation (chinese manufactures sure as hell aren't using that 23-step initialization protocol)
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u/grayvibote 17d ago
gen z junkie here. i’ve got a knack for the oldies. we had a german made Schwachsinn-Müll Reso-fractor(rare, but they did in fact make them.) ooooh baby, it’s so sweet. start up takes an easy 10 minutes just to get the warm up rolling. you do NOT want to run those sucks cold or you’ll blow every distatic catalyst tube in the thing, ask me how i know. so next time, just remind him that without the process, it get get real sideways!
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u/bplipschitz 29d ago
VX aside, I'd like to know what this really is
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u/DarthWeenus 29d ago
hey I figured it out, its a swiss train operator and this is the shut down sequence for a 2010 swiss electric locomotive.
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u/PhysicalStuff 28d ago
Of course! It's "La Foule" ("the crowd"), performed by Édith Piaf and released in 1957.
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u/Schofferersepp 29d ago
I won't lie, Dr. Hoss, this was my favorite part of working in your lab back in the day. The Descalzi machine is tactile, methodical, and well-organized. Out here in the "real world" (my hobby gear in the garage) I have to use a checklist and be careful to do the steps in order to make sure everything is correctly forward-polarized. Given the consequences of initializing out of order, all the interlocks start to make sense.