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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 l
by Gibbon1 7y ago
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 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/ 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 https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1258192134752145412
- zzleeper 7y agoAt 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)