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muskrat's data eng expert's hard drive overheats while processing 60k rows (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 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 1 points 2 weeks ago

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