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ator robot

@johnelamb @JessTheUnstill I'm thinking of its general use in e.g. annunciator panels, which does apply usually to planes, yes. Reason being that I'm developing a game which has "master alarms" that can be individually silenced.

I don't think global or integral are clear enough - global implies a warning for the whole system, while integral seems unintuitive to me (less clear definition imo)

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ator robot

@johnelamb interestingly, even in this case it's not perfect. master implies control of the slaves, whereas in reality a master alarm is triggered by its subjects :blobcatgiggle:​

John.e.lamb

@ator hmm. Good point. “Aggregator Alarm” ? Or “Escalation Alarm?”

ator robot

@johnelamb I like Aggregator! Aggregate maybe?

I probably wouldn't use it when I'm trying to replicate industry standards, but it's something I'd be ready to suggest as an alternative

Jess👾

@johnelamb @ator Some googling talks about "Area Alarm" or "Combination Alarm". Some other random ideas:

Facility
Primary
Main
Mass
Collection
Comprehensive
Overall

John.e.lamb

@JessTheUnstill @ator one thing that I like about this approach is i image there is a lot of overlap between people using the old terms, and people who really want things to mean exactly what they say, and we can use that later pedantry to lubricate the social change for the first.

Use the “technically true is the best kind of true” effect to our advantage.

Negative12DollarBill

@ator @johnelamb
Is it a root alarm then, which can be triggered by branches? Or a head/brain which gets messages from its limbs?

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