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

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[-] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 348 points 3 weeks 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" ?

[-] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 84 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

He hired a bunch of 19-25 year old. Not experts

[-] kane@femboys.biz 69 points 3 weeks ago

Hey! Thats offensive to 19-25 year olds, there are many who just finished college/university and are more than aware.

They’re just role playing like in movies, with no idea of the consequences.

[-] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 25 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

How on earth is it offensive to say they're "not experts"? They're not prodigies with PhDs. These specific young men are just technical enough and ideologically aligned.

[-] kane@femboys.biz 22 points 3 weeks ago

Except they’re not, as you will know their tweet would be false after your first year of any technical (IT oriented) education.

[-] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

First year? That shit is like A+ cert level knowledge or below, and A+ is damn near worthless. They would know that in the first few hours of a study guide

[-] kane@femboys.biz 4 points 3 weeks ago

I was being generous when you consider the people in school who somehow pass, even when they don’t know a thing 🥲

[-] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 3 weeks ago

Technical enough to be hired, is all I meant. 🙄

[-] kane@femboys.biz 8 points 3 weeks ago

Apologies, if I came over as hostile. I did not get your meaning through text.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

Even then, no. These were all obviously nepotism hires who would not have otherwise qualified.

[-] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 3 weeks ago

Meh, some of them won some hackathons and scholarships, it's pretty clear they're otherwise at least somewhat bright but they don't have any relevant domain knowledge.

In other words, the type of person most likely to be prone to hubris and catastrophic failures.

[-] Windex007@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Your original comment was ambiguous as to if being an "expert" and "being 19-25" are mutually exclusive.

[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago

lol a 19-21 yo isnt going to have a degree lol,

[-] T156@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

If they went into uni straight out of high school, they could. A lot of Bachelor holders would be around that age, since they start at 18.

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 29 points 3 weeks ago

There is nothing wrong with being 19-25. There's something wrong with being wholly incompetent.

[-] ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 3 weeks ago

There's not really anything wrong with being incompetent, so long as you have the humility to admit it and learn from people who know better, and try not to cause harm. That's not Musk's minions though.

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 weeks ago

I think it's important to differentiate incompetence from ignorance. Ignorance is not knowing. Incompetence is not being able to fulfill the requirements for your assigned task. If you cannot fulfill the requirements for your given task, then you should not be given said task.