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OceanGate’s ill-fated Titan sub relied on a hand-typed Excel spreadsheet (www.theverge.com)

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

“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.’”

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

And boy did that test fail spectacularly.