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Kernel.

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

Indeed. My stats are 4000 answers, zero deleted (other than by myself). The guy in the post is probably doing something wrong if 10% of his are being deleted.

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 desi…

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…

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 largel…