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@Korkki@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 8 months ago

OceanGate’s ill-fated Titan sub relied on a hand-typed Excel spreadsheet

www.theverge.com

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OceanGate’s ill-fated Titan sub relied on a hand-typed Excel spreadsheet

www.theverge.com

@Korkki@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 8 months ago
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‘This is an idiotic way to do navigation.’
  • @superkret@feddit.org
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    102•8 months ago

    To write a script, you need someone who can write scripts.
    If all you have is someone who can write VLOOKUPs in Excel, and the CEO is too cheap to hire someone, then that’s what you use.

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      76•8 months ago

      So basically it’s a project done by MBA geniuses, entrepreneurs and visionaries who optimized by cutting on those mundane and boring nautical engineers and software developers?

      God, do I like how evolution works.

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        108•8 months ago

    • @DogEatWaffle@startrek.website
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      someone who can write VLOOKUPs

      I think you’re overestimating the competence on display here…

    • @lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de
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      2•8 months ago

      Sounds like they did the lookups by hand actually

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