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by eigenvalue 2395 days ago
They should compute the SHA512 hash of lines of code or code blocks from well-known open source projects and then just give you pre-computed "reviews" for those lines/blocks, and then only charge for "novel" code. Otherwise you would need to waste time segregating your original code from the various packages you use. And it seems unfair to charge customers for canned results that can be cached and served at very low cost.
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I think you can set it to only scan when new pull requests are made. So you could commit your libraries etc without asking for review and then turn it on only for code you have written.

I might be wrong though.

Yes obviously you would just choose not to submit those irrelevant PRs to this extremely overpriced linter (it's not a code reviewer)