This is Alvin, a small sub that is 60 years old, been to the Titanic wreckage many, many times. Still in active service.

This is the difference between the real engineering and the kind of "engineering" done by so-called "disruptors" that say "move fast and break things".

You're not an engineer — you're a douche that appropriates the engineering culture. You didn't make an "OS for productivity", you made a worse version of Lotus 1-2-3 from 1983. You didn't "reverse-engineer" anything — you copied and pasted funny letters and symbols put together by a language model that is as clueless as you are.

Do not cite the deep magic to me, bitch. I was there when it was written.

The guy used a damn Xbox controller to pilot that thing

@TeachMeCode he used a Logitech controller! Also, this was literally the least of my concerns. Gaming controllers have decades of ergonomic research behind them, so if that's the familiar way for the operator to control stuff they pilot in a three-dimensional space, so be it! The more familiar the controls are to them, the better for me.

I know nothing about marine engineering. But I'm into bikes, so I know some stuff about carbon fiber. Carbon fiber does NOT do well against compression. When it cracks, it CANNOT be repaired reliably. That was all you needed to know. Compression is the single most important thing a submersible should handle. Also, it has to be checked and repaired if needed after every dive. Carbon fiber fails miserably in both departments.

my god, Virgin Oceanic already tried carbon fiber subs and reached the same conclusion: the sub will get weaker every time it's used. THEY TOLD YOU

Moving fast and breaking things has kept Elon Musk off Mars for like 10 years at this point.

Maybe if they blow up another rocket and let all its bullshit crash into the ocean? Maybe then they will succeed?

WAIT wait wait, you worked on a sub, that's awesome

@BordedDev wha?

@kiki The deep magic?

@TeachMeCode It probably also had some of the same kind of bolts you'd find on a bicycle, and the same kind of paint as a fridge.

Which would have been fine if they'd made it out of really chewy metal that doesn't crack.

@donkulator titanium bike frames bend and spring back like crazy. If you have a titanium frame, you don't really need any shock absorbers — the frame absorbs everything for you. Maybe this is why those spherical capsules in proper extreme depth subs like Alvin are made of titanium.

I automated a door once by attaching a microphone to the door bell and let a servo push the button. Do not deny that's engineering. Yeah, it feels lonely at the top.