this post was submitted on 16 Mar 2025
958 points (98.6% liked)

Programmer Humor

21666 readers
365 users here now

Welcome to Programmer Humor!

This is a place where you can post jokes, memes, humor, etc. related to programming!

For sharing awful code theres also Programming Horror.

Rules

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Feyter@programming.dev
anzo@programming.dev
BurningTurtle@programming.dev
pylapp@programming.dev
958
muskrat's data eng expert's hard drive overheats while processing 60k rows (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 3 days ago by SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
306 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] zenpocalypse@lemm.ee 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You could query 60,000 rows on a low tier smart phone. Makes no sense at all.

[–] Mniot@programming.dev 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Can we think of any device someone might have that would struggle with 60k? Certainly an ESP32 chip could handle it fine, so most IoT devices would work...

[–] zenpocalypse@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago

Right? There's no part of that xeet that makes any real sense coming from a "data engineer."

Terrifying, really.

[–] T156@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Unless the database was designed by someone who only knows of data as that robot from Star Trek, most would be absolutely fine with 60k rows. I wouldn't be surprised if the machine they're using caches that much in RAM alone.