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Molly White

Elon Musk's favorite supposed data expert, who he's retweeted at least a dozen times, claims she can only process 60,000 rows of data before her "hard drive overheats".

Perhaps someone should rescue her from where she's apparently stuck twenty years in the past, which is the only possible explanation for those hardware limitations and the apparent lack of access to cloud compute.

Unless, of course, she's just completely making shit up.

Tweet by @DataRepublican: "In my initial run, which processed the first 60,000 rows, I did not find these awards—my hard drive overheated long before I could complete a full pass through the database. In a later run, which I referenced in another post, I did identify two such awards. That discrepancy is a matter of sampling size, not an issue with the query itself. I’ll now attempt a full run, which should capture the awards you found."
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LovesTha🥧

@molly0xfff You've gotta be doing something specially dumb to have 60k rows trip you up. I've played with spreadsheets with more rows....

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Guillaume Rossolini

@LovesTha @molly0xfff whoa whoa whoa, how do your spreadsheets go beyond 65536 rows? /s

(The quoted number is suspiciously close to this)

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LovesTha🥧

@GuillaumeRossolini @molly0xfff custom compiled version of one of the floss spread sheet apps. I think I got close to 1M rows before I gave up and did it a proper way.

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