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.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 5 points 56 minutes ago (1 children)

yes but also why say 60K when you could have literally said anything? I mean surely the fact that he thinks 60K rows a big number is already explaining alot lol.

[–] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 4 points 21 minutes ago

It's bait.

They probably an explanation tweet at the ready to make more sense of it. They just want enough 'hurr durr these idiot" comments before they reverse Uno card this with more context.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 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 1 hour ago (1 children)

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.

[–] easily3667@lemmus.org 1 points 52 minutes ago

Yeah if you read more of these guys tweets they are clearly in politics. One message tried to claim trump loves kids (to be clear: in the abstract sense, not in the he definitely fucked kids on an island with Epstein sense). Then they tried to twist the words to say "why don't you love kids". It was clumsy like you'd expect from someone who is practically a teenager, but the core is an attempt to follow the usual right wing playbook.

[–] exu@feditown.com 72 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 16 points 9 hours ago

Lol he also said cybertrucks don't suck ;)

[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 25 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

He said many things.

[–] el_bhm@lemm.ee 5 points 5 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 10 hours ago

grep would eat 60k lines without a problem too.

[–] mckean@programming.dev 7 points 10 hours ago

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

[–] Deathray5@lemmynsfw.com 8 points 12 hours ago

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