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[–] [email protected] 129 points 2 months ago (6 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 131 points 2 months ago (11 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 83 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

Lol he also said cybertrucks don't suck ;)

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 71 points 2 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

The AI probably used bogosort or something equivalent

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 94 points 2 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

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

My allowance is 5$ a month!

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago

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

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