<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> </p><p>Oh yeah! There’s even runic graffiti in…some mosque I can’t remember which…that basically says “Olaf was here” or whatever.</p>

<p>Pretty certain the single most surprising thing I&#39;ve learned in the recent past is that the VIKINGS got to BAGHDAD and repeatedly attacked CONSTANTINOPLE. (They used the Volga&amp;Dnieper.) Not a word about it in my entire education! Here&#39;s a brief history:<br /><a href="https://www.history.com/news/globetrotting-vikings-the-quest-for-constantinople" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">history.com/news/globetrotting</span><span class="invisible">-vikings-the-quest-for-constantinople</span></a></p>

<p>Drove by this pile of traffic barriers recently. I was mesmerized.</p>

<p>What I&#39;m listening to today: &quot;Doom-Mantia&quot;, wizardinblack123</p><p>Today I was going to link you this song from Electric Wizard&#39;s 1997 doom-metal opus &quot;Come My Fanatics…&quot;, but looking for a copy on YouTube I accidentally instead found this cover recorded in 2013 by literally three guys in a garage, and I was *so* overcome by the &quot;three guys in a garage&quot; energy intensity that now I&#39;m linking you this version instead. God these tones are so grubby. It&#39;s incredible</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72KJBvD8aHs" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=72KJBvD8aHs</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>

<p>im not kidding <a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4701/10/5/676" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">mdpi.com/2075-4701/10/5/676</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>

<p>the phrase &quot;maoist smelting&quot; will live rent-free in my brain for the rest of my life</p>

<p>full historical analysis of the malloc(0) and realloc(…, 0) fiasco: <a href="https://nabijaczleweli.xyz/content/blogn_t/017-malloc0.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">nabijaczleweli.xyz/content/blo</span><span class="invisible">gn_t/017-malloc0.html</span></a></p>

<p>okay it&#39;s just because SVID says this probably</p>

<p>hey <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://pony.social/@thephd" class="u-url mention">@<span>thephd</span></a></span> does Very Old ISO C have Rationales or &quot;History of Decision Made&quot;s (I would like to know if the reason C allows malloc(0)=0 is because it believes the SVID which says this happens on SysV (it doesn&#39;t, the manual lies. malloc(0)≠0 always (unless OOM), and this has always been the case in every malloc implementation ever (on anything unix-shaped)))</p>