• GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    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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      3 hours ago

      Doesn’t actually say that 60k overheated his drive. He says that he ran a run on 60k, and that he couldn’t do the whole database due to overheating. Two unrelated statements except that 60k is the lower bound for what he could process.

      Doesn’t mean he knows what he’s doing though, as pretty huge datasets are processable on quite modest hardware if you do it right.

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        10 minutes ago

        that’s somehow worse.

        a “data analyst” couldn’t cut up the work into a parallel processes and run them synchronously? what the actual fuck?

        “sorry, I can only do 60k at a time.”

        just fucking split them up into 6 parallel batch processes running 10k at a time. it’s fucking math, not rocket science. I’m not even an analyst and I could fucking do that much.