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Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by mancerayder »

torben-friis wrote: post #6

I don't understand who uses that network anymore. Everytime I login it's all ai generated stories next to ai generated flavor images of people sounding like a parody of themselves ("what taking my kids to school taught me about business scaling"). Out of all places to doomscroll, why choose the one that feels like an episode of Severance?

You had me almost spit out my coffee. That's hilariously on point.

My favorite is this:

The LinkedIn Renaissance Man. It reads like this: "Visionary, Recruiter, Climber, Marathon Runner, Co-founder, Author. Father."

That's the sales guys we charge with finding us jobs.

Our past co-workers are all CEOs, CTO's, AI experts, and various flavor of Leonardo da Vinci that surely puts my income and achievements to shame.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by mancerayder »

alsetmusic wrote: post #19
port3000 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a social network that became socially acceptable to browse at work. It has all the negative attributes associated with a social network and none of the upsides (apart from the occasional recruiter message).

I've not understood why people wanted it to be a social network. That aspect always seemed bizarre to me until it had been true for long enough to stopped being strange. But this doesn't make sense to me either. I wouldn't load the site at work because I wouldn't want to signal to my employer that I was looking for another job. I very deliberately didn't accept invites from management at my last employer (small compa…

Is it terrible if your employer finds that you're looking for another job? If they like you, maybe they'll intervene to make your life better?

If they hate you, they're less likely to go through a termination process including severance.

I used to always worry about them finding out. Now, I'm having trouble not blurting it out from the rooftops.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by layer8 »

andrewl-hn wrote: post #40
port3000 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a social network that became socially acceptable to browse at work. It has all the negative attributes associated with a social network and none of the upsides (apart from the occasional recruiter message).

> It's a social network that became socially acceptable to browse at work. YMMV. I’ve heard a few stories where opened LinkedIn at work was treated as a massive red flag: “this person looks elsewhere, they are not committed to the company anymore”.

If you’re considered valuable at your current company, instead of being a red flag it can help you get a raise or other benefits.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by jackkinsella »

aquir wrote: post #125

Web developers of HN: how is this possible? What can use 1.2GB RAM for a website? Preloaded all videos?

Probably a memory leak

But other ideas: - all pages of FE site loaded at once instead as as needed - FE indexed search engine - bug rendering too many invisible HTML elements (eg 1M select boxes)

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by vscode-rest »

r_lee wrote: post #143
taminka wrote: post #110

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it's unironically just react lmao, virtually every popular react app has an insane number of accidental rerenders triggered by virtually everything, causing it to lag a lot

well that's any framework with vdom, the GC of web frameworks, so I'd imagine it's also a problem with vue etc.. I don't understand though why performance (I.e. using it properly) is not a consideration with these companies that are valued above $100 billion like, do these poor pitiful big tech companies only have the resources to do so when they hit the 2 trillion mark or something?

Nobody gets promoted for improving web app performance.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by rirze »

torben-friis wrote: post #6

I don't understand who uses that network anymore. Everytime I login it's all ai generated stories next to ai generated flavor images of people sounding like a parody of themselves ("what taking my kids to school taught me about business scaling"). Out of all places to doomscroll, why choose the one that feels like an episode of Severance?

It's great for niche fields or small credentialed network groups. The social media side is complete nonsense, don't use it.

I mostly check it to follow up on recruiting messages.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by mancerayder »

xantronix wrote: post #92
torben-friis wrote: post #6

I don't understand who uses that network anymore. Everytime I login it's all ai generated stories next to ai generated flavor images of people sounding like a parody of themselves ("what taking my kids to school taught me about business scaling"). Out of all places to doomscroll, why choose the one that feels like an episode of Severance?

The greatest value I see in LinkedIn is that it's one of the best places you can have PvP encounters with delusional C-suites making ridiculous claims in a world economy-defining hype bubble. Do I particularly think I am doing anything to change their minds? No, but I figure if enough people saw, at least some class consciousness could be built enough to resist some of their most inane excesses.

That's the first I've heard of LinkedIn-driven revolutionary endeavors towards social change. I think that's the point we've all reached given all else has failed.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by r_lee »

vscode-rest wrote: post #156
r_lee wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

well that's any framework with vdom, the GC of web frameworks, so I'd imagine it's also a problem with vue etc.. I don't understand though why performance (I.e. using it properly) is not a consideration with these companies that are valued above $100 billion like, do these poor pitiful big tech companies only have the resources to do so when they hit the 2 trillion mark or something?

Nobody gets promoted for improving web app performance.

yep. I think this is the root problem, not the frameworks themselves

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by ramon156 »

jrm4 wrote: post #152
adi_pradhan wrote: post #148

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LOL you've nailed LinkedinSpeak here

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Oh, you were not joking.

No, people do not care. You're not a celeb. This is textbook spotlight effect.

Your life becomes a lot more enjoyable if you don't take yourself so serious, try it sometime

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