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[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 11 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

IT guy checking in.

The only time I've even seen drive temp sensor alarms is on server raid arrays and other similar hard drives/SSDs.... Never in my life have I seen one available on a consumer device, nor have I seen any alarm for and drive temp, go off. It just doesn't happen.

IMO, this is one of those language barriers where people call their computer chassis (and everything in it) the "hard drive".

Applying that assumption, their updated statement is: His computer over heated.

Idk what kind of shit system he's running on that 60k rows would cause overheating, but ok.

[–] theparadox@lemmy.world 8 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

As another IT guy here, it could also be a shitty method of analysis that he got from ChaptGPT. As an amateur coder/script writer, the kinds of code I've seen people use from these bots is disturbing. One of my coworkers asked me for help after trying to cobble together something from bots. There were variables declared and never used, variables that were never assigned values but that were used in expressions... it was like it attempted to do that ransom note made from magazine letters but they couldn't spell coherently.

[–] eryndalor@lemm.ee 120 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

[–] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 10 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 22 hours ago

He’s attracted to them?

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day 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 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world 65 points 1 day ago (2 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 19 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 2 points 22 hours ago

Took out the fans for the aesthetic

[–] WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

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

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 130 points 1 day 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 13 points 1 day 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 9 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 5 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Based on all that has been going on, I feel like they don't really have the capacity to think more than one step ahead. They do sth stupid and then they usually follow up with "lol joke" or "lol you can't understand"

[–] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Wait, seriously?

I don't get how people don't see this stuff. Yea the average trumpet isn't out there planning Jack shit. But there are think tanks that are. Remember anti-smoking campaigns. Anti climate change campaign. The precision to purchase advertising into key areas and specific demographics that would spread a message. This is ancient knowledge with modern technology.

Imagine a room full of former Wall Street, quants, established experts from fields like behavioral science and psychology. All with the singular goal to decide where to dedicate a dragons horde of wealth to maximize effect in a world where we all have anonymous pipes directly into our eyes and ears. We never stood a chance. There's no rich socialist funding think tanks. There's no counter. We can laugh at the yokel all we want. But the yokel is being puppeteered by some scary fuckers with intention to seize power with the new shifting Zeitgeist. Soldiers don't need to think. But their generals are. The left are like guerilla fighters going up against an imperial army full of Patons and Eisenhower's.

Cambridge analytical, heritage foundation, international democracy Union. We're fucked until we actually recognize why we're fucked

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[–] exu@feditown.com 78 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 day ago

Lol he also said cybertrucks don't suck ;)

[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] el_bhm@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

Please remember that he is a genius. Only geniuses say a lot of things.

I rest my case.

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[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 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.

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[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 92 points 1 day 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 47 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 1 day ago (2 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.

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[–] BenLeMan@lemmy.world 72 points 1 day 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.

[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 50 points 1 day 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 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

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[–] DarkSpectrum@lemmy.world 59 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] Tungsten5@lemm.ee 13 points 1 day ago

Bro seriosuly fuck off my phone is overheating now. Thanks

[–] RussianBot8453@lemmy.world 99 points 1 day ago (10 children)

I'm a data engineer that processes 2 billion row 3000 column datasets every day, and I open shit in Excel with more than 60k rows. What the hell is this chick talking about?

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[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 63 points 1 day 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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[–] Psaldorn@lemmy.world 200 points 2 days ago (2 children)

From the same group that doesn't understand joins and thinks nobody uses SQL this is hardly surprising .

Probably got an LLM running locally and asking it to get data which is then running 10 level deep sub queries to achieve what 2 inner joins would in a fraction of the time.

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 85 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

You're giving this person a lot of credit. It's probably all in the same table and this idiot is probably doing something like a for-loop over an integer range (the length of the table) where it pulls the entire table down every iteration of the loop, dumps it to a local file, and then uses plain text search or some really bad regex's to find the data they're looking for.

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[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 367 points 2 days ago (28 children)

Wow.

I've been processing a couple of billion rows of data on my machine, the fans didn't even come on. WTF are they teaching "experts" these days, or has Elmo only hired people who claim that they can "wrangle data" and say "yes" ?

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 220 points 2 days ago (36 children)

Even if querying data was processing-heavy and even if somehow the ‘hard drive’ got warm during this, then there still would need to be a hardware defect in order for the drive to overheat.

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[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 109 points 2 days ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (18 children)

my hard drive overheated

So, this means they either have a local copy on disk of whatever database they're querying, or they're dumping a remote db to disk at some point before/during/after their query, right?

Either way, I have just one question - why?

Edit: found the thread with a more in-depth explanation elsewhere in the thread: https://xcancel.com/DataRepublican/status/1900593377370087648#m

So yeah, she's apparently toting around an external hard drive with a copy of the "multiple terabytes" large US spending database, running queries against it, then dumping the 60k-row result set to CSV for further processing.

I'm still confused at what point the external drive overheats, even if she is doing all this in a "hot humid" hotel room that she can't run any fans I guess because her kids were asleep?

But like, all of that just adds more questions, and doesn't really answer the first one - why?

[–] vapeloki@lemmy.world 81 points 2 days ago (9 children)

Have you ever heard of case of overheating hard drives within the last decade?

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[–] sirdorius@programming.dev 69 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When the only thing that is stopping kids from dismantling your government is an O(N^N) algorithm

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[–] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 142 points 2 days ago (15 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 2 days ago (9 children)

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

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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.

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