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Oh you silly duck! Semafor is a common word in a handful of other languages for things like traffic lights and such. I had to do a double take when I first saw
by bigmeme 9mo ago
Oh you silly duck! Semafor is a common word in a handful of other languages for things like traffic lights and such. I had to do a double take when I first saw it in a programming class.
Also hope you’re doing well it’s been a minute since our paths crossed on gdnet.
- seanmcdirmid 9mo ago[flagged]
- karmakurtisaani 9mo agoCopy pasting AI vomit is like leetspeak or all caps. Should not be used in online discussion.
- seanmcdirmid 9mo agoI disagree, but we are all entitled to our own opinions, and I get that there are a lot of luddites on HN these days. The fact that you consider it vomit rather than useful information just says more about you than me. If there was just a wiki page on how railway terms were used in computing, I would have just linked that (search didn't turn up anything in the first few pages).
- orwin 9mo agoAt least ask it to summarise. I'm not against reading AI text, but the more verbose it gets, the worst reading it feels.
- karmakurtisaani 9mo agoYeah a summary is fine. Or a paragraph from the relevant part.
- rob74 9mo ago"Semaphore" is (old) Greek and means "sign (sema) bearer (phore)", and actually the meaning in railways and computing is more or less the same: in computing, a semaphore signals if a resource is in use; in railways, the resource is a segment of a railway line, and the user is a train.
- anthk 9mo agoIt does the same role in plain roads between pedestrians, cars and similar vehicles.