Adobe Semaphore Pynchon
Aug
19
00
The semaphore (four rotating disks of light) atop the Adobe tower in downtown San Jose is indeed transmitting a message.
Never heard of a semaphore? There are multiple meanings. In programming, it concerns methodology for mutual exclusion (see “excluded middles” below), parallel processing, and synchronization.
Predating the electrical telegraph, the semaphore was defined as an [...]
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