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This is dumb ass article, it is common to have engineering stuff happen in excel.
It's not the use of Excel, which is best-in-class software, it's all the room for error they introduced.
Dumb, but I don't see that having anything to do with the implosion, just a wonky way to navigate.
You guys are flying airplanes, just asking? 👀
But I agree that’s far from ideal 😂
True, but hand typed? I am an engineer and type all my excel sheets with my nose
Haha, we hand type our stuff several times into different formats, from PowerPoint to excel to some proprietary formats into a tool which configures something….
Yeah, but in this case it really is idiotic. They are receiving data via some communication line from the sub, are manually typing it in excel and then are manually loading it into a mapping software. And then they are telling the contractor, who is proposing to use automatic, standard software for that, which is available on the market, to shut up and that they want to develop their own system, which they then proceed do don't develop. That might also be common, but is far away from best practices. Just writing the text message contents to CSV and importing that via cron would have been easier.