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 5 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 29 minutes ago

I keep hearing things about these hires he has, I don't think they're naive, At least not as such. They seem to be more power hungry trust fund babies.

But yeah, people with a few years in them would be a moral liability in that line of work.

[–] exu@feditown.com 68 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 16 points 7 hours ago

Lol he also said cybertrucks don't suck ;)

[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 23 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

He said many things.

[–] el_bhm@lemm.ee 5 points 4 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 9 hours ago

grep would eat 60k lines without a problem too.

[–] mckean@programming.dev 7 points 9 hours ago

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

[–] Deathray5@lemmynsfw.com 8 points 11 hours ago

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