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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 8 months ago

OceanGate’s ill-fated Titan sub relied on a hand-typed Excel spreadsheet

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OceanGate’s ill-fated Titan sub relied on a hand-typed Excel spreadsheet

www.theverge.com

☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 8 months ago
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    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 Which is why it’s so common to see in places where it should have been replaced by a proper database years ago.

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      Worked for multiple Fortune 500s, the world is held together by Cobol and Excel. If Excel were to stop working, the world would collapse.

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        I worked for a major investment bank and one of their exotics trading teams was basically all add-ons and stuff built on top of Excel.

        To be fair, the traders looked like Wizards using it, it was pretty neat.

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      https://xkcd.com/1667/

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      Not Excel, but one of the most hilarious uses of Google Sheets I’ve ever seen

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    The sub’s implosion was probably Clippy’s fault

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