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OceanGate’s ill-fated Titan sub relied on a hand-typed Excel spreadsheet (www.theverge.com)
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[–] superkret@feddit.org 101 points 5 days ago (3 children)

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.

[–] DogEatWaffle@startrek.website 30 points 5 days ago

someone who can write VLOOKUPs

I think you're overestimating the competence on display here...

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 74 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 days ago

Sounds like they did the lookups by hand actually