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muskrat's data eng expert's hard drive overheats while processing 60k rows (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 90 points 2 months ago (4 children)

This sounds like trying to do stuff in Excel? The computer isn't overheating but the amount of memory needed is very high which would make it run poorly. They might interpret that as overheating?

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 months ago (3 children)

What is this, a table for ants? Because that’s the average number of ants in an ant colony and it’s nowhere near an impressive amount of rows to be doing any sort of processing on. It wouldn’t be an impressive amount of rows if your rig was an i386DX-33 running off a 5” floppy.

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[–] [email protected] 371 points 2 months ago (10 children)

Wow.

I've been processing a couple of billion rows of data on my machine, the fans didn't even come on. WTF are they teaching "experts" these days, or has Elmo only hired people who claim that they can "wrangle data" and say "yes" ?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You have to understand that the average Trump voter probably knows everything they know about computers from watching the 'wacky-zaney hacker with personality issues/quirks' "hack" into things by tippity tapping their fingies on a keyboard in your average copaganda performance.

This is something those types of people will believe.

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[–] [email protected] 224 points 2 months ago (36 children)

Even if querying data was processing-heavy and even if somehow the ‘hard drive’ got warm during this, then there still would need to be a hardware defect in order for the drive to overheat.

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[–] [email protected] 93 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

He hired a bunch of 19-25 year old. Not experts

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Bunch of 1337 hax0rs script kiddies who don't understand anything but they suck elon's balls or something idk.

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Hey! Thats offensive to 19-25 year olds, there are many who just finished college/university and are more than aware.

They’re just role playing like in movies, with no idea of the consequences.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

How on earth is it offensive to say they're "not experts"? They're not prodigies with PhDs. These specific young men are just technical enough and ideologically aligned.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Except they’re not, as you will know their tweet would be false after your first year of any technical (IT oriented) education.