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Knowing about programming semaphores but not visual semaphores seems quite bizarre to me. A bit like thinking flag or register or stack were only computer terms.
I figure it's quite common for non native speaker, no ?
I was lamenting the use of "semaphore" but wikipedia supports them: > Semaphore (lit. 'apparatus for signalling'; from Ancient Greek σῆμα (sêma) 'mark, sign, token', and Greek -φόρος (-phóros) 'bearer, carrier')[1] is the use of an apparatus to create a visual signal transmitted over distance. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semaphore I was only familiar with: > [A semaphore] is a variable or abstract data type used…
Knowing about programming semaphores but not visual semaphores seems quite bizarre to me. A bit like thinking flag or register or stack were only computer terms.
The YouTube video is even funnier: https://youtu.be/h376W93gQq4
I am mostly impressed by the fact that he can keep a straight face while signaling. Impressive!
It honestly takes all my focus and concentration to remember the signals quickly. That's the look of 100% dedication to a silly task!
How far away from effortless mastery are you?
The lifeguards at the beach I visit use it to communicate to each other from between lifeguard stands, and I'm always curious what they saying.
Plus, I thought it would be fun to be able to communicate with them in their own secret(ish) language.
Author here! Pleasant surprise to find my project at the top of HN this morning with such positive feedback :) I'm happy to answer any questions or hear suggestions for future tweaks. Planning to make this into a customizable full-body game controller as well.
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I figure it's quite common for non native speaker, no ?
Even as a native speaker, I had been using the programming concept for a few years before I discovered the signaling doohickey.
"Token ring" is something I learned in networking, and the Wikipedia article doesn't mention railroads at all. I assume that's where the term comes from, but I only heard about railway signalling tokens decades later. (I think they may have appeared in the Thomas the Tank Engine stories on Shining Time Station, but I was quite young at the time.)
command: lift left leg to ~horizontal thigh
control: lift right leg to ~horizontal thigh
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I hope the video was dramatized and that you didn't actually hurt yourself! Rather than type every letter, a more efficient system is to represent sounds with keys. This is how stenography works. Each stoke of the keys is mapped to a series of characters; a letter, a grouping (such as 'sh' or 'ing'), or a complete phrase. Using such a system would allow one motion, for example for 'b', to map to a whole word, such as…
Interesting, I wonder if you could make a BodyChord or FaceChord setup using steno... Can you actually write code using a steno keyboard - as in, full access to all the usual symbols and modifiers - or would it just be for letters and basic punctuation?
The Charachorder One is one example