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[–] jkercher@programming.dev 37 points 1 day ago (2 children)

60k rows of anything will be pulled into the file cache and do very little work on the drive. Possibly none after the first read.

You can put 60k rows in Excel 95.

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[–] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 142 points 1 day ago (12 children)

60k isn't that much, I frequently run scripts against multiple hundreds of thousands at work. Wtf is he doing? Did he duplicate the government database onto his 2015 MacBook Air?

[–] easily3667@lemmus.org 142 points 1 day ago (3 children)

60k is laughably, embarrassingly small. It's still sqlite-sized.

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 49 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Sqlite can easily handle millions of rows. Don't sell it short

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[–] naught@sh.itjust.works 57 points 1 day ago (2 children)

i mean its even excel sized depending on how many columns. This is seriously sad and alarming

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[–] 4am@lemm.ee 75 points 1 day ago (3 children)

A TI-86 can query 60k rows without breaking a sweat.

If his hard drive overheated from that, he is doing something very wrong, very unhygienic, or both.

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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 19 points 1 day ago

“I store my records on vinyl. You’ve probably never heard of them.”

[–] madeinthebackseat@lemmy.world 64 points 1 day ago (11 children)

As a reasonably experienced "data guy," this seems obviously laughable, but the discussion on X is scary. This guy is a savior in the MAGA world.

We can criticize and poke fun all day, but it doesn't matter much if our message isn't challenging the mindset of those with other opinions.

How do we make better use of our time to impact outside opinion?

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[–] fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com 62 points 1 day ago (7 children)

I cannot believe these people make more than me lol.

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[–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago

Hard drive was made by Tesla

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 81 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (8 children)

This shit sounds like when your mom tells you that the Facebook printed out her bank statement on the fax machine. I'm not smart enough to even guess how you did something dumb enough to make that happen.

How bad are you at writing queries? How does your hard drive overheat even under 100% load? Do you have it smothered under a blanket? Did you crack it up and expose it to cheeto dust? What does running a query on your, presumably, remote database even have to do with your harddrive in the first place? Are you trying to copy the entire database locally to a laptop? Do you know how to tie your shoes yet, or are you still on the velcro?

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[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 68 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Good lord.

These people cannot do half of what she can do.

@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 53 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Literally every time someone dismisses Wikipedia, it's because they believe something crazy that Wikipedia told them is wrong.

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[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (15 children)

I didn't know hard drive overheating was a thing. Should I be worried that my 5 year old hard drive is about to overheat. I mean is this actually a floppy disk or something?

it is a thing, but any competently designed computer should have things in place to prevent this.

unless you're an arrogant dipshit and disable all the hardware safeties on your computer to make it go faster and wear harder.

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[–] mamotromico@lemmy.ml 69 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maybe

Maybe

They are just making shit up and doing jack shit

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[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 89 points 1 day 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?

[–] monkeyman512@lemmy.world 87 points 1 day ago

It also makes sense if they are on calling the entire computer "the hard drive" like grandma and the fans kicked on.

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