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Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by dijit »

podgorniy wrote: post #172
jrm4 wrote: post #144

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> destroy, their own LIVELIHOOD Do you have examples of such occasions when the linkedin post was actually the cause?

My postings on LinkedIn have definitely had direct consequences in my professional life.

I consider them all good because ultimately if you get upset by the way I behave then that's probably going to be true if we work together also.

Sometimes people like to tell me that I'm very authentic and it's clear that I'm not trying to suck up to anyone, which they respect. Some people quietly retreat from me and I find out later that it's because I hurt their feelings inadvertently by shitting on AI or calling out web development as largely being inefficient in resources or something.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by tandr »

inaros wrote: post #133
lucb1e wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

my employer's choice of premium hosting provider

I know what AWS is...that is why your statement >> AWS has a similar RAM consumption. Makes no sense to me...

I think they are talking about AWS dashboard, but I might be wrong.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by phendrenad2 »

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?

> what taking my kids to school taught me about business scaling

The brief period where LinkedIn didn't ban you for joke posts was glorious:

https://www.indiatimes.com/trending/wtf/man-shares-fake-stor...

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by Pannoniae »

lucb1e wrote: post #48
barbegal wrote: post #44

I don't understand why people get so hung up on Chrome using so much memory. A lot of this memory is "discardable" so will get dropped when the system is under memory pressure and the amount of memory allocated for this type of usage will depend on how much memory your system has available. If Chrome is using lots of memory then it's almost always because your system has lots of available memory. It allows the browse…

Or another process will die at random instead, which might be your desktop environment, the main browser process, Signal (10% chance at corrupting message history each time), a large image you were working on in Gimp... Firefox has gotten very good at safely handling allocation failures, so instead of crashing it keeps your memory snugly at 100% full and renders your system entirely unusable until the kernel figures…

I dunno I have 96GB of RAM and I still get the whole "system dies due to resource exhaustion" thing. Yesterday I managed to somehow crash DWM from handle exhaustion. Man, people really waste resources....

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by com2kid »

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?

There are some really funny people who run parody accounts, or who are retired and just don't care. They publish some hilarious posts. If you follow a few of them LI becomes worth visiting!

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by mrweasel »

kjkjadksj wrote: post #201
mrweasel wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It probably depend on where you live and who you are. LinkedIn is my backup in case of a layoff. It's the site where I can reach everyone who worked with me or have made offers in the past. If you do what I do, live in my general area and know the right people (which I do), LinkedIn will get you an interview or three lined up in a day or two. None of these people are on Indeed, HackerNews or even Slack.

I think before linkedin people were doing this with email and phone. Literally cold calling your old coworkers. Not sure linkedin really created anything that didn’t exist previously especially if you live in some major hub of industry as you indicate.

It did make it easier though. I don't have to keep a list of potentially outdated phone numbers and email adresses. LinkedIn makes it much simpler to broadcast your availability.

Most of LinkedIn is just garbage though, especially if you somehow connected with social-media people or marketing people. Marketing people on LinkedIn are weird, they can't form coherent sentences and they can't even sell themselves.

You could strip down LinkedIn down to your resume, availability status and your email address and it would be fine.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by drfloyd51 »

a4isms wrote: post #209
estimator7292 wrote: post #178

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I do some times wonder if any hiring managers see a lot of LinkedIn social post activity as a positive thing. About a year ago I had a friend recommend me to their management. After three rounds of interviews, the CEO overrode the process and rejected me because I didn't have enough on my LinkedIn profile. As far as I'm concerned, I dodged a bullet. If the CEO cares so much about LinkedIn filler that he'd overrule…

Hiring can remain irrational longer than you can remain unemployed. One manager no-hires you because you don't post enough. Another doesn't like what you post. A third thinks you post too much. A fourth is pleased you seem to pay more attention to shipping products than hot takes. A fifth loves your hot takes. So you get a call and are asked to do a coding thing. One person no-hires you because you wrote fizz-buzz by…

Agreed.

Even if we could quantize someone into a feature matrix, every hiring process demands unique matrixes.

Even if I pass all the quantifiable stuff… the first answer to an HR “off limits” question will be given soon enough if I get the job.

Turns out being a Jesus nerd was a secret requirement.

Wish they could just put that in the job requirements.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by josteink »

Aurornis wrote: post #168
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?

Very few people with LinkedIn profiles read the social feed. Even fewer post things to it. The majority use LinkedIn only for job searching and keeping contacts. I do some times wonder if any hiring managers see a lot of LinkedIn social post activity as a positive thing. The few times we’ve interviewed candidates who had a lot of LinkedIn posting activity it was considered a risk: We could go through their LinkedIn a…

> Very few people with LinkedIn profiles read the social feed.

I read somewhere that in Norway (small sample, yes I know) LinkedIn is supposedly a more popular social network than X/Twitter.

You can have whatever opinion you mean about Elon, X, free speech and whatever. I'm not here to have that discussion.

All that considered, as a Norwegian this had me quite surprised. I don't have the source anymore, but I'd love to dig into it to see what sort of metrics they use to measure this sort of popularity.

Literally nobody I know uses LinkedIn except for business-SPAM.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by faramarz »

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?

its a professional contact list is all it is, for me anyway. its where I go to gather intel on a person/company or where I go to lookup a contact for an outreac

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by salawat »

mahirsaid wrote: post #192
eximius wrote: post #177

Let's be real, LinkedIn is full of LinkedIn Lunatics but pretty much all mainstream social media is pretty shit. They're just different flavors of shit. LinkedIn: bad. Facebook: bad. Twitter: I literally think it contributed to the collapse of discourse and rise of shallow thought / rejection of expertise. I'm not going to list more because the theme is, you guessed it, they're bad. Google+ had promise in that the ma…

Im pretty sure that is the current sentiment amongst the judicial body at the moment, Meta and Google have been taking blows left and right. They are also not allowing else to take shape that might make their business model obsolete. With all that we have more and more laws that are redistricting the use of social media by their own bad doing. So if another company wants to offer something innovative, now they have a…

When your definition of innovation includes "move fast, break things, ignore regulations until you can scale big enough for the lawyers hopefully to outpace the legal system" it is arguable that any of that should be allowed at all. There's room for leniency for innovation sake, then there's building the wrong damn thing and not taking no for an answer when you should. Tech is beyond that point by leaps and bounds.
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