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!

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.

Kudos to you too. Finnish, Hungarian and Estonian I wouldn’t be able to comprehend ;) these are different beasts

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

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

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

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

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

Tissot, N., Genty, G., Santoprete, R. et al. Mapping cell dynamics in human ex vivo hair follicles suggests pulling mechanism of hair growth. Nat Commun 16, 10267 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-65143-x

Furukawa, Y., Sunami, S., Takano, Y. et al. Bio-essential sugars in samples from asteroid Bennu. Nat. Geosci. (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-025-01838-6

Sandford, S.A., Gainsforth, Z., Nuevo, M. et al. Nitrogen- and oxygen-rich organic material indicative of polymerization in pre-aqueous cryochemistry on Bennu’s parent body. Nat Astron (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-025-02694-5

Nguyen, A.N., Seifert, L.B., Shimizu, K. et al. Abundant supernova dust and heterogeneous aqueous alteration revealed by stardust in two lithologies of asteroid Bennu. Nat Astron (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-025-02688-3