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

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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think it's a hole in education. Unless you go to school for IT or programming the most advanced thing you're probably going to be taught is spreadsheet, and yet out in the world of business you need actual database software, and Excel can kinda sorta look like it's somewhat accomplishing that for a while so that's what gets used.

When the only tool society has been taught exists is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.

[–] xavier666@lemm.ee 1 points 9 hours ago

One of my seniors uses xls as a word processor. I screamed but Teams was on mute.