The sysinternals guys (Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell) and code, at least most of it, existed independently of microsoft for many years. It was great. So great MS bought it and brought it and them inside. Russinovich is CTO of Azure now or something. So sysinternals is now random MS hires but I like to think it's still not really a microsoft product, just owned and mantained by them.

I was a windows user till XP came out and I've missed sysinternals tools. I'm going to enjoy this on my newer kernel machines. Seems to require some pretty cutting edge features.

Semi-related: I'm currently interested in how people get into the seemingly closed and endless maze of believing in things that are relatively provably incorrect or at odds with their own interests.

My daughter has recently been diagnosed with an eating disorder, and she cannot get past wanting to lose weight, no matter that she's in hospital due to her heart rate having slowed down to alarming levels. She still wants it to go slower, as a challenge, as a goal, to show how strong she is in fighting her own body's will to live.

It's fucking crazy, but it's her reality. I do not understand how this kind of fantasy gets a foothold. I feel like the power of an idea is woefully underestimated.

Same goes with conspiracy theories. Maybe an idea has to fit like a puzzle piece into a real life scenario as a convenient surface-level explanation for something unpleasant or just unresolved.

I used to think the brain was a logic machine, but I think there are strong elements of it that are coping mechanisms. Cling to a fantasy that makes unpleasant thing less unpleasant. Don't know how that relates to potentially starving oneself to death, but that seems to be entirely on the table for ye olde brain.

Careful what you consider plausible folks!