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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.
command: lift left leg to ~horizontal thigh control: lift right leg to ~horizontal thigh So command+control => midair splits?
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I think you could turn this into a game - Dance Hero or something. With a ridiculous storyline where you have to send signals with the power of dance to save the world
I dig it, send signals to the aliens asking for a rescue with the only Fatline capacitator left in earth which happens to only take dance inputs
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Yea, like many computing terms are normal words now being used as jargon
I'm struggling to think of any computer terms that aren't repurposed 'normal' words, initialisms, acronyms, or portmanteaus. Even the words 'computer', 'program' and 'code' are repurposed.
I wonder if there are any good keyboards that are part of trousers, but that are also hidden, you know not immediately obvious that you've got a keyboard on your trousers. Then you could have a computer in the pocket or a bag and a HUD! That could be very cool!
It worked well enough.
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I'm actually already working on exactly that -- after trying it out on a couple of mini-games such as https://github.com/mristin/pop-that-balloon-desktop , https://github.com/mristin/cactusss-desktop and https://github.com/mristin/ski-leu-desktop . Please let me know if you want to join forces! You can find my contact information at: https://github.com/mristin . I figured that I don't mind my kids playing computer ga…
Excellent, I'll reach out! Your balloon game looks a bit more like my face keyboard interface: https://github.com/everythingishacked/CheekyKeys#readme
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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 don't know if they're on HN yet, but there's a generation for which "writing to disk" has nothing to do with disks of anything.
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I am a native English speaker and never heard the word "semaphore" until taking CS classes in college. I cannot think of a common use for the term, unlike flag (see them all the time), register (do that with cars and schools) or stack (lots of those in my kitchen).
> register (do that with cars and schools) I would think computer register comes from the noun, not the verb — think cash register, not to register a car.
I cannot think of a way that "semaphore" would come up in non-nerd conversation at all.