oliver_quartic

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1. 1.▲
   by oliver_quartic 2y ago

   Kernel.
2. 2.▲
   by oliver_quartic 7y ago

   Here is one reason: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10852055 (TL;DR - default signal behaviour is different for PID 1). [Edit - fix link]
3. 3.▲
   by oliver_quartic 9y ago

   I'm sure this was fun to build, but it doesn't sound particularly practical. Specifically, it's unclear why one would eschew the high degree of structure in OFDM (specifically designed to aid analytical approaches to time&#x2
4. 4.▲
   by oliver_quartic 9y ago

   Stephen Pinker did this number crunching (in fastidious detail) in "The Better Angels of our Nature". I forget what the result was, though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Better_Angels_of_Our_Natur...
5. 5.▲
   by oliver_quartic 9y ago

   Couple of things: 1. "Call/pass by XXX" terminology usually refers to language semantics, not underlying implementation details. In that respect, the call-stack mechanism is largely orthogonal here. 2. According to this oft-