• Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radio
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    21 days ago

    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” ?

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      21 days ago

      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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        21 days ago

        Yes, but this may be a symptom of an issue I’ve been seeing with younger programmers; they’ve siloed themselves so specifically into whatever programming they “specialize” in, that they become absolutely useless at dealing with absolutely anything else related to their job. And exasperating this issue is the fact that they’ve grown up with systems that “just work”. Windows, iOS, and android are all at the point where fucking around with hardware issues is very uncommon for the average person.

        Asking this guy to solve a hardware problem is like asking hime to tune a carburetor. He likely has not the slightest clue how to start.

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      21 days ago

      You have to understand that the average Trump voter probably knows everything they know about computers from watching the ‘wacky-zaney hacker with personality issues/quirks’ “hack” into things by tippity tapping their fingies on a keyboard in your average copaganda performance.

      This is something those types of people will believe.

      • Sanctus@lemmy.world
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        21 days ago

        You’re on the mark. I’m like Help Desk Level 2, I wouldnt even consider myself an actual wizard. The average person in my office thinks I’m Gandalf. Its scary how much these people dont know. And each one of them is out there on the internet.