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    OceanGates unglückseliges Titan-U-Boot stützte sich auf eine handgetippte Excel-Tabelle


    OceanGates unglückseliges Titan-U-Boot stützte sich auf eine handgetippte Excel-Tabelle

    https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/20/24250237/oceangate-titan-submarine-coast-guard-hearing-investigation

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    4. lundah on

      Every company has their dirty secrets of some completely inappropriate tool that’s at the center of their business.

    5. JoushMark on

      I mean, it’s like finding out the Titanic had poor water pressure for the bathrooms. Sort of interesting, but overshadowed by the whole ‘hull failure in extreme conditions, leading to lots of people dying’ part.

    6. phoenixmusicman on

      Of all the questionable decisions from that organization, this is the one that matters the least. So many companies still use hand typed excel spreadsheets.

    7. East_Jacket_7151 on

      One part of the vessle was secured with a ratchet strap. The last time a ratchet strap was on location was when this one woman floated away on a door.

    8. FuzzyPedal on

      If you think that’s bad, just wait until the world inevitably finds out that so do the banks.

    9. Inutilisable on

      Hand-typed?

      A script-generated spreadsheet database would be weird. A manually written SQLite file would be insane.

      But an excel spreadsheet made on a typewriter is just industry standard at this point.

    11. rigobueno on

      What is the alternative to “hand-typed?” All spreadsheets had to be typed at some point.

    12. ursastara on

      The biggest problem was it used expired carbon fiber which compromised its structural integrity

    13. DaikenTC on

      You know this dude hasn’t got the slightest clue what he is talking about if he thinks using a spreadsheet is a bad thing.

    14. rco8786 on

      I mean, that doesn’t surprise me at all. So do nuclear military submarines.

    17. terminalxposure on

      So did the author of this article want Big-Data Crypto AI GPT or something?

    23. ThirdSunRising on

      Excel is common in engineering applications as well as finance. It does numbers brilliantly. Some very high level engineering projects rely in some way on excel spreadsheets; you can’t really do much of the day-to-day number crunching without them.

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