OceanGate’s ill-fated Titan sub relied on a hand-typed Excel spreadsheet - eviltoast
“This is an idiotic way to do navigation.”
  • NegativeInf@lemmy.world
    35·
    2 months ago

    But Wilby said that for the Titan, the coordinate data was transcribed into a notebook by hand and then entered into Excel before loading the spreadsheet into mapping software to track the sub’s position on a hand-drawn map of the wreckage.

    They… Couldn’t just make a nice little python script for that??

    Dungeon.

    • Scratch@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      24·
      2 months ago

      “Ill-fated Titan submarine relied on Python script the CEO coded himself. When asked about unit tests, he replied; ‘That shits for pussies, we test in production.’”