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[–] WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago

Maybe he left his shed lizard skin on top of the hard drive that caused the overheating?

[–] Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world 47 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Even a gamer knows that ssdd heat up but never to that level, lol.

What kind of cheap temu ssd does he have in his laptop?

[–] art@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago

He was saving money, you know, to be efficient.

[–] eryndalor@lemm.ee 77 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

60k of rows is nothing. Fuck, where do you find these “geniuses”?

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 1 points 9 minutes ago

I do data analysis for a living, I reach out to tech and complain if I can't open a file with a million+ lines.

[–] houseofleft@slrpnk.net 19 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Tbf we don't know how many columns there are /s

[–] Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world 9 points 3 hours ago

The IRS just switched columns and rows. So there's 60k rows and 330 million columns /s

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 106 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

Unless I'm misreading it which is possible it's awfully late, he said he processed 60,000 rows didn't find what he was looking for but his hard drive overheated on the full pass.

Discs don't overheat because there was load. Even if he f***** up and didn't index the data correctly (I assume it's a relational database since he's talking about rows) The disc isn't just going to overheat because the job is big. It's going to be lack of air flow or lack of heatsink.

I guarantee you he was running on an external NVMe, and one of those little shitty-ass Chinese enclosures. Or maybe one of those self immolating SanDisk enclosures. Hell, maybe he's on a desktop and he slept a raw NVMe on his motherboard without a heatsink

There are times when you want a brilliant college student on your team, But you need seasoned professionals to help them through the things they've never seen before and never done before.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 1 points 7 minutes ago* (last edited 4 minutes ago)

There are times when you want a brilliant college student on your team, But you need seasoned professionals to help them through the things they’ve never seen before and never done before.

Honestly, any sweet, white-haired old lady who keeps pictures of her dogs and grandkids on her desk who's been doing data entry for 15 years could do circles around these clowns.

But she might also have the wisdom and perception to know we're not supposed to be doing this "work" at all, which is why he recruits naive teenagers and college kids who are still emotionally immature to think that this is going to be their "destiny" or their opportunity to get into the big leagues of business.

[–] mckean@programming.dev 7 points 6 hours ago

music theaters also have rows, and they run on sql so logic checks out.

[–] exu@feditown.com 63 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

Can't be a relational database, Musk said the government doesn't use SQL.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 15 points 5 hours ago

Lol he also said cybertrucks don't suck ;)

[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 21 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] el_bhm@lemm.ee 2 points 2 hours ago

Please remember that he is a genius. Only geniuses say a lot of things.

I rest my case.

[–] Lemmist@lemm.ee 3 points 6 hours ago

grep would eat 60k lines without a problem too.

[–] Deathray5@lemmynsfw.com 7 points 8 hours ago

Somehow I feel over clicking without understanding of the consequences sounds like something a techbro would do

[–] BenLeMan@lemmy.world 64 points 13 hours ago

You're not supposed to place your laptop directly in the lap of your fur suit. Always leave an air gap for ventilation, smh.

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 85 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

This cannot be real, wtf. This is cartoon levels of ineptitude.

Or sabotage by someone heading out? Please let this be resistance sabotage they haven’t noticed yet.

[–] turnip@lemm.ee 41 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)

You guys arent running your software off raspberry pi's with sdcards from the gas station?

My allowance is 5$ a month!

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 14 points 4 hours ago

I think my Pi could process 60k rows without overheating. And the poor thing is dangling behind my bookshelf from its power cord with a fine layer of dust coating every inch of it.

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 18 points 13 hours ago

Look, all I’m saying is give Pis a chance.

[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 45 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Either she knows something novel, where processing data using voice coils is somehow beneficial, or is someone who calls their computer a ‘hard drive’, which summarily negates any legitimacy of technical competence.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 18 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Or wrote the code using AI without checking what it exactly does.

[–] Threeme2189@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 hours ago

The AI probably used bogosort or something equivalent

[–] DarkSpectrum@lemmy.world 51 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I will now attempt a full comment ... brace your hard drives

[–] Tungsten5@lemm.ee 9 points 4 hours ago

Bro seriosuly fuck off my phone is overheating now. Thanks

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 58 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

I smell something, but it's not overheating electronics.

I've processed over 5 million records on a laptop that's almost 10 years old. it took two days to get my results.

there's no way 60,000 records overheated ANYTHING.

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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 15 points 13 hours ago

“I store my records on vinyl. You’ve probably never heard of them.”

[–] jkercher@programming.dev 35 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

60k rows of anything will be pulled into the file cache and do very little work on the drive. Possibly none after the first read.

You can put 60k rows in Excel 95.

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