12 Aug
2021
12 Aug
'21
8:23 p.m.
In a report in this evening’s TV1 news, NZ farmers have been using a piece of software to help them estimate their environmental groundwater impact that, according to some reports, is giving wildly inaccurate results <https://1news.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/software-estimating-much-fertiliser-effluent-leaches-farmland-flawed>. The minister is looking into whether it can be fixed, or whether it needs to be replaced. Given its taxpayer funding (at least in part), why isn’t it open-sourced? Stick it on GitHub, and watch the hordes of would-be fixers descend. ;)