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Owner of Quavermouse Games
May 17, 2020 22 tweets 3 min read
Of FFS. Is this the future? Politicised code reviews where professional engineers lord it over academics. I’m becoming ashamed of my industry.

telegraph.co.uk/technology/202… Firstly the authors decide to mention that it was written in Fortran and how it was used in the NASA mission that saw a rocket blown up because of software errors.
May 11, 2020 28 tweets 9 min read
I thought I’d do some real code review for the @Imperial_JIDEA CovIdSim, rather than the nonsense political one published. Not exhaustive, but hopeful constructive. /1 So the first thing I noticed when trying to get it going is that scanning the population file takes a long time: 77.96 seconds in this run. /2
May 7, 2020 37 tweets 5 min read
’ve read this and I seem some real red flags in some of the interpretations in this blog. /1

lockdownsceptics.org/code-review-of… Since the author laid out their experience, I’ll lay out mine: /2