• Gollum@feddit.org
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    2 hours ago

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

    • shalafi@lemmy.world
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      1 hour ago

      It’s not the use of Excel, which is best-in-class software, it’s all the room for error they introduced.

      The OceanGate team tried to perform these updates at least every five minutes, but it was a slow, manual process done while communicating with the gamepad-controlled sub via short text messages.

      Dumb, but I don’t see that having anything to do with the implosion, just a wonky way to navigate.