@Mrkawfee to TechnologyEnglish • 1 month agoInfamous $30 Logitech F710 called out in $50M lawsuit over Titan sub implosionarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square151arrow-up1428arrow-down111file-textcross-posted to: hardware
arrow-up1417arrow-down1external-linkInfamous $30 Logitech F710 called out in $50M lawsuit over Titan sub implosionarstechnica.com@Mrkawfee to TechnologyEnglish • 1 month agomessage-square151file-textcross-posted to: hardware
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•1 month agoSrsly, it’s clear these guys didnt play video games with controllers growing up. Could you imagine getting left drift down there!? They should have had an entirely redundant system on there; the controller being the first item on the list and from there to the motors.
minus-square@gedhrellinkEnglish4•1 month agoYou joke, but watch this: https://archive.org/details/take-me-to-titanic from 29 minutes in. A last-minute adjustment before launch plugged in a thruster backwards; no protocol to check the behaviour prelaunch. They doscovered it when they got to the bottom.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•1 month agoJebus, I cant believe the engineers would allow them to be plugged wrong. It’s so easy to design that mistake away
Srsly, it’s clear these guys didnt play video games with controllers growing up. Could you imagine getting left drift down there!?
They should have had an entirely redundant system on there; the controller being the first item on the list and from there to the motors.
You joke, but watch this:
https://archive.org/details/take-me-to-titanic
from 29 minutes in. A last-minute adjustment before launch plugged in a thruster backwards; no protocol to check the behaviour prelaunch. They doscovered it when they got to the bottom.
Jebus, I cant believe the engineers would allow them to be plugged wrong. It’s so easy to design that mistake away