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It is impossible to catch cheating when the problems are simple enough
By BERNARD, 2 months ago, In English

Someone just sent me these from today's contest:

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I think tourist stole your solution

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    if he stole first problem solution, he stole all the solutions =) so, ban him! :P

    just kidding

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    Not only he stole it, but also went back in time to reduce the time penalty. People will now time travel just to save their ratings, smh...

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      They even do that for unrated contests just to look cool

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    I knew it, I knew it. The time machine exists.

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how are they so exact same even in terms of spaces and new lines and even boilerplates

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    check his old submissions, its his style

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    Yeah, I was thinking the same. I compared both codes, and they are almost the same (well the code in the main function are exact in both of them). I am not saying that you guys cheated (ofc it just don't make sense to cheat when you both were out of competition), but just imagine how many ways would be there to write the code in the main function. There would be trillions of them (these possibilities would be reduced a lot if possibly BERNARD is inspired by tourist in the way of writing codes or vice versa. Is it so?). Anyways, It's just cool to imagine that out of all these ways, there were 2 codes that were the same.

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yeah man, i also use his template and it happened to me once, (i use his templates cuz im in cool kids table)

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We have finally found an alt tourist account

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Even in this case tourist's submission is faster than yours

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How are you generating the author and created comment in your code? (I hope its not manual)

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    CP EDITOR HAS THIS INBUILT FUNCTION.

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    For VS Code.

    • Press Ctrl + Shift + P (or Cmd + Shift + P on macOS) to open the Command Palette.

    • Type Preferences: Configure User Snippets and select it from the dropdown.

    • Choose the language for which you want to create the snippet (e.g., C++).

    • In the opened snippet file, add the following snippet:

    Spoiler
    • Save the file.

    Now, whenever you type header and press Tab, it will insert the comment template with the current date and time.

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and it is also impossoble to increase rating if you solve simple enough problems

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That moment when whitespace tells you more than the code itself…

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This tourist's alt account

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