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0 pointswizzwizz45y ago0 comments

They're worried that there isn't testing code to prove that it's correct. If it's proven correct in other ways, it doesn't need unit tests.

Yeah, the code's bad – so what? It wasn't written by programmers. Most simulation code is bad, but if it's been proven correct it doesn't need to be good.

From what I can tell, this is a matter of conflicting conventions in different fields meeting head-on.

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guygurari5y ago

To be clear, I am not arguing for or against the validity of the claims regarding covid-sim. I am only saying that this is not a good example of the effect where people feel entitled to get open source code that fits their needs.

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0 pointswizzwizz45y ago0 comments

They're worried that there isn't testing code to prove that it's correct. If it's proven correct in other ways, it doesn't need unit tests.

Yeah, the code's bad – so what? It wasn't written by programmers. Most simulation code is bad, but if it's been proven correct it doesn't need to be good.

From what I can tell, this is a matter of conflicting conventions in different fields meeting head-on.

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guygurari5y ago

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