SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · 14 hours agomuskrat's data eng expert's hard drive overheats while processing 60k rowslemmy.dbzer0.comimagemessage-square229fedilinkarrow-up1648
arrow-up1648imagemuskrat's data eng expert's hard drive overheats while processing 60k rowslemmy.dbzer0.comSchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · 14 hours agomessage-square229fedilink
minus-squareryedaft@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up84·13 hours agoThis 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?
minus-squaremonkeyman512@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up80·13 hours agoIt also makes sense if they are on calling the entire computer “the hard drive” like grandma and the fans kicked on.
minus-squarejonjuan@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34·edit-213 hours agoYeah, everyone commenting about being able to handle billions of rows easily, which obviously very true if you are worming with sql or similar. But this is probably some finance kid, investment banker analyst, and only knows how to use Excel. 60,000 rows in excel with formulas, if not done efficiently, can for sure make you computer a little toasty.
minus-squareIrateAnteater@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up6·13 hours agoCould be a gen 5 nvme drive without adequate cooling. Them bastards can run hot. Especially the early gen 5 drives.
minus-squarefuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·12 hours agoBut with only 60k rows would one even have enough time to overheat?
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?
It also makes sense if they are on calling the entire computer “the hard drive” like grandma and the fans kicked on.
Yeah, everyone commenting about being able to handle billions of rows easily, which obviously very true if you are worming with sql or similar.
But this is probably some finance kid, investment banker analyst, and only knows how to use Excel.
60,000 rows in excel with formulas, if not done efficiently, can for sure make you computer a little toasty.
Could be a gen 5 nvme drive without adequate cooling. Them bastards can run hot. Especially the early gen 5 drives.
But with only 60k rows would one even have enough time to overheat?