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

I really do wonder why they ended up in this. It can’ be that hard to make even a hacky DIY system to do it automatically. The navigation system just had to have some digital or even analog output, then it would be just the problem of interpreting the signal with some script and writing it into a file.

When Wilby recommended the company use standard software to process ping data and plot the sub’s telemetry automatically, the response was that the company wanted to develop an in-house system, but didn’t have enough time.

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superkret@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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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- rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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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  - 0x0@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
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- DogEatWaffle@startrek.website ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  
  someone who can write VLOOKUPs
  
  I think you’re overestimating the competence on display here…
  
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- lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Sounds like they did the lookups by hand actually
  
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0x0@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

I really do wonder why they ended up in this. It can’ be that hard to make even a hacky DIY system to do it automatically.

All-manager team, no devs?

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- elvith@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  That’s why they use, what they know: Excel. I wonder if the UI was done in PowerPoint?
  
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  - 0x0@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Nah, FrontPage.
    
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- peopleproblems@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  It’s exactly like Fallout lol
  
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T156@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I like how the company didn’t consider using standard software to do it, and then switch to the in-house system that they made later, instead of just having it done by hand instead.

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