Clooney: Pressuring Biden to drop out was a "mistake"

[moniss]

95. You don't understand what it was that I described and

the idea of someone not using software other than what they themselves have written and checked. He was not using some downloaded garbage. The purpose in mentioning him was to show rejection of "other people's programming" as being accurate. Most other hydrogeologists are using widely available commercial software. He wrote his own software and exhaustively verified it.

That is the sort of thing you get asked in court by lawyers. If you want to win you can attest to your verification. If you want to be challenged and quite possibly lose you use off the shelf software. A scientist who can show you all of the verification will be a much better witness than someone who says "Well I bought it on the internet and they sent me a piece of paper saying they checked it out."

It appears to me that you don't understand that the basis of my comment was about trusting off the shelf software to be accurate in all respects. When I consider something to be critical I go long hand and triple check. I don't care what you or anybody else does. I worked for several years in a demanding engineering environment where your work had to be absolutely accurate at all times or you caught pure hell because many others were relying upon your work. Saying "oh it must be a computer glitch" was not an option nor should it have been.