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by sarchertech 74 days ago
It’s literally impossible to prove anything outside of a formal system.

Courts would look at the preponderance of the evidence in a civil trial.

Did you have access to my code? Is the copy long enough that it’s statistically very unlikely that could have came up with it exactly on your own?

They’ll look at things like did you copy misspellings in variable names. Did you copy the missing period at the end of the output string etc…