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[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

There was a leak of climate scientists code a while back (10 years ago I think). It was the most sloppy, disorganised, unreadable ruby code I’d ever seen or seen since (and ruby is known for being sloppy). How anyone could trust such code is beyond me. It shows that they’d likely never seen ‘any’ other code.

[–]Canbot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The program was likely purposely built to produce a favorable result rather than an accurate prediction.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

More than likely. Tweak code by checking if output produces expectations. I write unit tests like that sometimes, oops.