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muskrat's data eng expert's hard drive overheats while processing 60k rows (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[โ€“] Professorozone@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm not actually worried about my drives. In fact that was kind of the point. I was kidding around because this excuse that the hard drive overheated sounds a little like a car running out of blinker fluid.

[โ€“] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

oh no they're definitely stupid, that's for sure. I'm just providing the two available scenarios in which they would be right lmao.