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

submitted 2 months ago by Korkki@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Madrigal@lemmy.world 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There are better ways to do that even in Excel!

[–] doctortran@lemm.ee 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Right? I work with plenty of users in non-technical roles who have at best rudimentary Excel skills, and even they could figure out a better way to manage this. The whole thing with Excel is to make basic data work accessible even to a rube, and let them do an incredible amount of things otherwise outside their skillet.

Using Excel like this is like giving someone a microwave and they only use it as a kitchen timer.