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by gumby 882 days ago
Then it’s not copying, is it? It’s using SO as a reference site, like any other reference, which is a perfectly sensible thing to do.
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Ctrl C plus ctrl V is copying. Why assume that no verification, testing or checking came after that though?
Unfortunately I formed this opinion by reading other people’s code.

I wish I could add a sarcasm marker but I see chunks of dumb code inserted in public repos, NPM, etc all the time.

I can only hope that my bank’s phone app has been subject to reasonable code review.