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Missing Titan submersible is operated by a cheap game controller
(videogames.si.com)
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Also of interest via this blog is this statement from OceanGate about why their subs aren't classed.
If I wanted to can and sell hubris, I know where to source it from now.
“Move fast and break things” maybe doesn’t apply too well to submarine design.
That's a hard agree. I work in a highly regulated industry and literally every new dude who joins the company says some version of "I don't see why we can't just..." and proceeds to describe some moderately to highly illegal shit. Every single one.
It's wild. I think they honestly believe they're the first person to think up these completely obvious and simple "solutions" to problems that require some degree of control and complexity.
If you can't imagine why someone built the fence then leave it alone until you do.
At my old job the director of my department had a poster up that said "move fast and break things", but he also demanded 99.9999% uptime.
I relate a bit too much to this... agile when convenient as well.
Especially when the previous smaller version of the same design, with the same materials, had problems with it coming apart a few years back.
Lol, the fuck is this even supposed to mean? Just say regulations. You know, honesty, with a touch of bullshit at the end.
Something like:
"Regulations are too difficult to deal with when you've got a substandard machine which wouldn't pass any of the requisite safety tests.
If someone happens to die, we've determined this to be acceptable collateral.
This is also known as innovation."
The good news is, the hubris is already in a can. The bad news is, the can is several thousand feet under the North Atlantic.