Coding that led to lockdown was 'unreliable' and a 'buggy mess'

telegraph.co.uk

20 points·cyrksoft··6 comments

John Carmack who cleaned up the codes take.

> it turned out that it fared a lot better going through the gauntlet of code analysis tools I hit it with than a lot of more modern code. There is something to be said for straightforward C code. Bugs were found and fixed, but generally in paths that weren't enabled or hit.

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1254872370260652033

Also his opinion on the deniers efforts.

> It is disappointing, but not really unexpected, to see this take on the epidemic simulation code release: https://lockdownsceptics.org/code-review-of-fergusons-model/ If we accept it at face value, we have a retired software engineer making the case that non-determinism in a simulation shows incompetence.

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1258192134752145412

At this point, lockdown skeptics are doing all they can to discredit anything that can hurt them. I've even seen this personally, and it was a bit sad as it makes exchanging ideas quite a bit more difficult (hard to do so if the other part is essentially interesting in just discrediting you)

Paywall free version here:

https://archive.fo/1fyh8#selection-67.1-67.85

Edit: Not against lockdown per se, but worth looking into this

Sadly, this link returns a 403 for me.

It works for me. You can go to archive.today and paste the original link too.

That didn't work either. Resolved it by connecting via VPN. So maybe it's either a geolocation thing, or a DNS thing.

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