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muskrat's data eng expert's hard drive overheats while processing 60k rows (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[–] eryndalor@lemm.ee 85 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 4 points 54 minutes 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 20 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world 9 points 4 hours ago

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