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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 98 points 4 months 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.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 74 points 4 months 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.

[–] DogEatWaffle@startrek.website 30 points 4 months ago

someone who can write VLOOKUPs

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

[–] lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 months ago

Sounds like they did the lookups by hand actually