‘This is an idiotic way to do navigation.’
  • Gollum@feddit.org
    1·
    8 minutes ago

    This is dumb ass article, it is common to have engineering stuff happen in excel.

  • NegativeInf@lemmy.world
    20·
    11 hours 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.

    • ScratchEnglish
      10·
      8 hours 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.’”