I can't find it now, but I distinctly remember dang talking about his moderation philosophy being based on what he's read about the activation of the parasympathetic nervous system
If you were to implement your own realloc for the purpose of this data structure, you could do that. However, a generic realloc implementation needs to know how many bytes to copy, and generally that means storing the capacity just in front of the allocated region. I don't think there is another feasible way. On e.g. glibc, you can use `malloc_usable_size` to extract this information (modulo certain caveats).
You're right, it's less uncommon than I recalled, and thanks for the source. But I don't think that 35/42 is suspicious/bizarre, and it does look like the 5x7 scores make up the bulk of the 35s.
This is not bizarre, it's a reflection of how the IMO is scored: 6 questions with scores from 0-7 but partial credit is rare. It's really a score of 5/6.
Often the frontpage will include a new submission with few votes at the top, I recall others in other threads speculating that this is an intentional way (rather than an edge case in the ranking algo) of getting new posts evaluated without people having to visit /newest
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