• manicdave@feddit.uk
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    3 hours ago

    My CPU was mid range when I bought it five years ago and I use it process a 300gb+ database of price history. My day job is working jupyter notebooks hosted on raspberry pis. Not being able to process a 60000 row database is definitely a skill issue. Bad hardware should encourage good software.

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      3 hours ago

      Don’t get me wrong, they’re idiots.

      But people are drastically underestimating how shitty government laptops are.

      But what do I know? What’s decades of direct experience when someone online has a Jupiter laptop?!

      Clearly you know more than anyone who actually deals with it

      Speaking of, it’s my mom’s b’day coming up, you clearly know more than me so what would a thoughtful and bespoke gift be?

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        52 minutes ago

        Get her a Thinkpad with 64 GB of ram and a server-class CPU that blasts enough heat to make the laptop hover. That’s what I had the last time I worked on a project for the government. Company took it back though 😞

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        1 hour ago

        Idk. If it’s your mum that you take after, you can get her nothing and let her make the excuses for your failure.

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        2 hours ago

        The issue with your comments are not how bad government laptops are.

        The issue seems to be you don’t understand how little work processing even a million rows is.

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          12 minutes ago

          Yeah. Who needs decades of experience when people on the internet know better?

          Not like it’s ironic people people are doing the same thing Elon is or anything…

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        2 hours ago

        Flowers, her favorite unless her favorite is roses then go for something nice and in season. If you have the time bake her homemade cookies as well.