| ▲ | bigmeme 4 hours 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. |
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| ▲ | rob74 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| "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. |
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| ▲ | seanmcdirmid 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
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| ▲ | karmakurtisaani 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Copy pasting AI vomit is like leetspeak or all caps. Should not be used in online discussion. | | |
| ▲ | seanmcdirmid 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | I 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 an hour ago | parent [-] | | At least ask it to summarise. I'm not against reading AI text, but the more verbose it gets, the worst reading it feels. | | |
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