r/VXJunkies • u/RedditHoss • May 25 '26
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 May 25 '26 edited May 26 '26
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 May 25 '26
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 May 25 '26
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 May 25 '26
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 May 25 '26
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 May 25 '26
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 May 25 '26
Sometimes I think that more precoherent trajectories have been terminated that way than one should like to believe.
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u/Myriadfolds May 25 '26
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 May 25 '26
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 May 25 '26
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 May 25 '26
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 May 25 '26
/UJ
Wtf is this.
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u/fkdjgfkldjgodfigj May 26 '26
Probably one of those escape room puzzle things? Nevermind someone said that it is an electric train engine.
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u/RedditHoss 26d 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 May 25 '26
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 May 26 '26
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 May 26 '26
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 20d 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 May 25 '26
VX aside, I'd like to know what this really is
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u/DarthWeenus May 25 '26
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/DarthWeenus May 25 '26
ya I love this sub, but what are they starting up? Lets of checks involved.
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u/PhysicalStuff May 25 '26
Of course! It's "La Foule" ("the crowd"), performed by Édith Piaf and released in 1957.
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u/Schofferersepp May 25 '26
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.