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mzs commented on How can I read the standard output of an already-running process? devblogs.microsoft.com/ol... · Posted by u/ibobev

ranger_danger · 6 days ago

I know this article is for Windows, but if you're wondering if there's a way to do this on Linux, there is:

https://strace.io/

https://github.com/nelhage/reptyr

https://github.com/crigler/dtach

https://github.com/jerome-pouiller/reredirect

https://github.com/pasky/retty

mzs · 6 days ago

vxworks 6.x:

(one login session, say over serial)

  -> ioTaskStdGet 0, 1
  value = 3 = 0x3
  -> taskIdSelf
  value = 13600784 = 0xcf8810

(another session, say over telnet)

  -> ioTaskStdSet 0xcf8810, 1, 0x9
  value = 0 = 0x0

(first session ie SERIAL)

  -> printf "foo\n"
  -> taskIdSelf
  -> i

(otherone eg TELNET)

  -> foo
  value = 4 = 0x4
  value = 13600784 = 0xcf8810


     NAME         ENTRY       TID    PRI   STATUS      PC       SP     ERRNO  DELAY
  ----------  ------------ -------- --- ---------- -------- -------- ------- -----
  ...

teeheeheehaw!

mzs commented on How the Brain Parses Language quantamagazine.org/the-po... · Posted by u/mylifeandtimes

alfanick · 6 days ago

Anecdotal data, based on a sample of 1 (aka me). I'm originally Polish, but I would say my mother tongue is English. I also learned Latin as a kid/teen. Then learning any other languages is much easier, I also learned German and some Swiss German dialects. I can also do Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch, Czech, some Serbo-Croation. I think being Polish makes learning languages easy - as we have a lot of creations in Polish that do not translate easily to other languages. I think in my case it's the same part of brain that processes both human language and computer language. My brain can do another fun party trick: I never learned cyrillic, but I can read it just fine, my brain does like pattern matching and statistical analysis when reading cyrillic.

I also learned to think in hmm "concepts", and then apply a language of my choice to express them. It's a fun skill to have :) Obviously works of Chomsky are great, especially exploring if language evolves mind or is the other way around, does mind evolve language? [let's skip his rather controversial political views lately].

mzs · 6 days ago

I completely understand! I'm also Polish American. I have to say it helps when mother's side of family is Gdańsk+west and father's Lublin+east. My wife's family is all from Warsaw area and I had to translate for my father-in-law during a holiday to Władysławowo-Hel (probably helps my aunt's father's side is Kashubian too, mmm... dessert first).

I was blown-away on holiday to Croatia. It was so unexpectedly relatively easily understandable after Czechia, Austria, and Slovenia. I was all, "What just happened!? Shouldn't this be something more like Italian?"

It took only a month for me to be able to communicate in Ukrainian with my ESL students, you're totally right about Cyrillic. And I too think in concepts but switch my brain to express them externally via language, whatever that language may be at the moment. I am terrible at translating OTOH, so unnatural!

But it has it's limits, I got to a point after German and Norwegian that I thought I harbored a super-power. Then I went to school in Hungary ;) I also had an ESL student from Lithuania, yep incomprehensible.

mzs commented on Kernel Float: Unlocking Mixed-Precision GPU Programming dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.114... · Posted by u/gpuhacker

mzs · 6 days ago

https://github.com/KernelTuner/kernel_float

mzs commented on The stack circuitry of the Intel 8087 floating point chip, reverse-engineered righto.com/2025/12/8087-s... · Posted by u/elpocko

kens · 8 days ago

Author here for your 8087 questions...

mzs · 7 days ago

insightful footnote, thanks: https://web.archive.org/web/20190301193516/http://www.drdobb...

mzs commented on The effect of shingles vaccination at different stages of dementia cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0... · Posted by u/Archelaos

mzs · 11 days ago

from one of the previous papers:

"To provide causal as opposed to correlational evidence, we take advantage of the fact that, in Wales, eligibility for the zoster vaccine was determined on the basis of an individual’s exact date of birth. Those born before 2 September 1933 were ineligible and remained ineligible for life, whereas those born on or after 2 September 1933 were eligible for at least 1 year to receive the vaccine."

Eyting, M., Xie, M., Michalik, F. et al. A natural experiment on the effect of herpes zoster vaccination on dementia. Nature 641, 438–446 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08800-x

mzs commented on Trick users and bypass warnings – Modern SVG Clickjacking attacks lyra.horse/blog/2025/12/s... · Posted by u/spartanatreyu

user_7832 · 12 days ago

Not sure if this is the same for others, but on my android chrome (technically kiwi browser, latest release), perhaps due to the inbuilt dark mode, stuff looks just "fine" or broken. Anyone else noticing such a thing?

mzs · 12 days ago

A zoom of not 100% breaks the QR one at least.

mzs commented on New 3D scan reveals a hidden network of moai carvers on Easter Island sciencedaily.com/releases... · Posted by u/saikatsg

mzs · 12 days ago

Lipo CP, Hunt TL, Pakarati G, Pingel T, Simmons N, et al. (2025) Megalithic statue (moai) production on Rapa Nui (Easter Island, Chile). PLOS ONE 20(11): e0336251. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0336251

mzs commented on Volcanic eruption might have helped bring the Black Plague to Europe sciencenews.org/article/v... · Posted by u/mzs

mzs · 12 days ago

Bauch, M., Büntgen, U. Climate-driven changes in Mediterranean grain trade mitigated famine but introduced the Black Death to medieval Europe. Commun Earth Environ 6, 986 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02964-0