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The reporter, who followed an expedition of the Titan from the launch ship, wrote that “it seems like this submersible has elements of MacGyver jerry-riggedness.”
“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.