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

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Excel is one of those tools that punches way above its weight class. Which is why it's so common to see in places where it should have been replaced by a proper database years ago.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

https://xkcd.com/1667/

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