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[–] WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world 13 points 6 hours ago

Maybe he left his shed lizard skin on top of the hard drive that caused the overheating?

[–] Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world 62 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Even a gamer knows that ssdd heat up but never to that level, lol.

What kind of cheap temu ssd does he have in his laptop?

[–] art@lemmy.world 16 points 6 hours ago

He was saving money, you know, to be efficient.

[–] eryndalor@lemm.ee 106 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 3 points 28 minutes ago

There's only one reason he wants kids and not experienced adults.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 9 points 4 hours ago

I do data analysis for a living, I reach out to tech and complain if I can't open a file with a million+ lines.

[–] houseofleft@slrpnk.net 23 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world 16 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

The IRS just switched columns and rows. So there's 60k rows and 330 million columns /s

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 121 points 17 hours ago (5 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.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 7 points 1 hour 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 5 points 50 minutes ago* (last edited 11 minutes ago)

It's bait.

They probably have 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 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 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 2 hours 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 2 points 1 hour 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 73 points 15 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)
[–] el_bhm@lemm.ee 5 points 6 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

[–] BenLeMan@lemmy.world 71 points 17 hours 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.

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 91 points 18 hours 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.

[–] turnip@lemm.ee 45 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (2 children)

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

My allowance is 5$ a month!

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 19 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I think my Pi could process 60k rows without overheating. And the poor thing is dangling behind my bookshelf from its power cord with a fine layer of dust coating every inch of it.

[–] JargonWagon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Why would you do this to that poor rPi?

[–] WagyuSneakers@lemm.ee 1 points 10 minutes ago

Electronics get what they deserve.

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 21 points 17 hours ago

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

[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 49 points 17 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 23 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Threeme2189@sh.itjust.works 10 points 14 hours ago

The AI probably used bogosort or something equivalent

[–] DarkSpectrum@lemmy.world 58 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I will now attempt a full comment ... brace your hard drives

[–] Tungsten5@lemm.ee 13 points 8 hours ago

Bro seriosuly fuck off my phone is overheating now. Thanks

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 60 points 20 hours ago (4 children)

I smell something, but it's not overheating electronics.

I've processed over 5 million records on a laptop that's almost 10 years old. it took two days to get my results.

there's no way 60,000 records overheated ANYTHING.

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