Baughn comments on Explanations for Less Wrong articles that you didn't understand - Less Wrong Discussion
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Point of order - a stack trace is not a dump of everything that's going on, just the function call stack. It's essentially "How did I get to here from the start of the program".
A dump of everything would be a core dump, named after "core memory" - a very, very old memory technology.
Point of order - Your comment is not a point of order. A point of order is an interjection about process in parliamentary process. Your comment was a clarification about terminology, which does not have the precedence of a point of order.
[This is meant to be silly, not harsh; but if you want to make fussy terminological points on LW, I will do likewise...]
Isn't your comment then also not a point of order?
Muphry's law FTW!