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  2. Blinkenlights - Wikipedia

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    Blinkenlights on the NSA's FROSTBURG supercomputer from the 1990s Typical LED pattern of a Thinking Machines CM-5. The Connection Machine, a 65 536-processor parallel computer designed in the mid-1980s, was a black cube with one side covered with a grid of red blinkenlights; the sales demo had them evolving Conway's Game of Life patterns.

  3. Variations in traffic light operation - Wikipedia

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    Red lights supplement stop signs on the side road approaches. All-way red flashing lights can supplement all-way stop control, but all-way yellow signals are prohibited by US regulations. In Canada a flashing yellow light at an intersection that would otherwise have traffic signals indicates that the traffic signals are malfunctioning.

  4. Permanently signed detour route - Wikipedia

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    Sweden use signs with white background and blue text for their permanent detour routes (Swedish: permanent omledningsväg) on numbered roads. According to the Swedish Transport Administration's guidelines a permanent detour route should be able to handle all the traffic when it comes to capacity , weight, height, etc. as sorting traffic is ...

  5. Screen of death - Wikipedia

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    A Yellow Screen of Death occurs when an ASP.NET web app finds a problem and crashes. [8] [self-published source?] A kernel panic is the Unix equivalent of Microsoft's Blue Screen of Death. It is a routine called when the kernel detects irrecoverable errors in runtime correctness; in other words, when continuing the operation may risk escalating ...

  6. North American railroad signals - Wikipedia

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    Lunar White - Blue filtered light to eliminate all trace of yellow used to indicate a restricted proceed condition. Lemon Yellow (The AAR's official name) - Used in position light systems as an all-purpose high visibility color, greatest fog penetration. (Plain) White - Plain incandescent white light. Used in dwarf position light signals with ...

  7. Belisha beacon - Wikipedia

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    A Belisha beacon atop its striped pole. This example also features a spot lamp to illuminate the crossing at night. A Belisha beacon (/ b ə ˈ l iː ʃ ə /) is a yellow-coloured globe lamp atop a tall black and white striped pole, marking pedestrian crossings of roads in the United Kingdom, [1] Ireland, and other countries historically influenced by Britain, such as Hong Kong, Cyprus, Malta ...

  8. Dennō Senshi Porygon - Wikipedia

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    The flashing red light that caused the seizure is also used in the storytelling elements. [ 30 ] [ non-primary source needed ] On September 19, 2020, the official Pokémon Twitter account referenced the episode, saying "Porygon did nothing wrong," [ 31 ] in reference to the resulting explosion from Pikachu's Thunderbolt attack being the in ...

  9. Level crossing signals - Wikipedia

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    The basic signal consists of flashing red lights, a crossbuck and an alarm (either a bell, a speaker that mimics a bell sound or an electronic siren), attached to a mast. At most crossings, the signals will activate about 30 seconds before the train arrives but there are sensors measuring speed so that the crossing knows when to activate; so ...