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

submitted 1 day ago by SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 43 points 12 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 17 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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

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

The AI probably used bogosort or something equivalent