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Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by fritzo »

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…

Sorry for my ignorance, but what exactly is the distinction between hn and social media? Is it the personalization that distinguishes the two? Does "social" mean "feed depends on graph neighborhood"? So collaborative filtering + ranking algorithms + moderation is not social media until you add graph neighborhoods?

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by glitchc »

fritzo wrote: post #221
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…

Sorry for my ignorance, but what exactly is the distinction between hn and social media? Is it the personalization that distinguishes the two? Does "social" mean "feed depends on graph neighborhood"? So collaborative filtering + ranking algorithms + moderation is not social media until you add graph neighborhoods?

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Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by serf »

fritzo wrote: post #221
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…

Sorry for my ignorance, but what exactly is the distinction between hn and social media? Is it the personalization that distinguishes the two? Does "social" mean "feed depends on graph neighborhood"? So collaborative filtering + ranking algorithms + moderation is not social media until you add graph neighborhoods?

well moderation is ubiquitous , but yeah -- personalization/targeting/social graph are essentially the things that people expect out of a social media platform.

I do personally think the karma thing is an aspect , because it's gamed everywhere to huge advantage -- but the altruistic view is that its a branch of moderation, an effort to democratize the removal of obviously bad actors while still facilitating dissenting or contrary speech.

I also know that's a naive view.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by shimman »

thunky wrote: post #27
lpcvoid wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Imagine the MBA that had this idea. This is peak, distilled Microslop engineering right there.

It's the user's fault. They vote for this crap with their attention. Junk sites like this shouldn't exist but they do amd aren't going anywhere until people stop using them.

Is it really the users fault when the apps are literally designed by neuroscientists that explicitly design it to be addictive toward humans all of which is being funded by monopolists companies whose leadership tend to have antidemocratic views about humanity?

Maybe we should finally regulate these addict boxes as the dangerous substances they are.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by throwuxiytayq »

machomaster wrote: post #127
r_lee wrote: post #43

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I think a big problem is the fact that many web frameworks allow you to write these kind of complex apps that just "work" but performance is often not included in the equation so it looks fine during basic testing but it scales really bad. like for example claude/openAI web UIs, they at first would literally lag so bad because they'd just use simple updating mechanisms which would re-render the entire conversation hi…

The Grok android app is terrible in that sense. Just writing a question with a normal speed will make half of the characters not appear due to whatever unoptimized shit the app does after each keystroke.

Sounds quite overengineered. CEOs have basically no idea what they're doing these days. If this were my company, I'd start by cutting 80% of staff and 80% of the code bloat.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by array_key_first »

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?

It's not a problem with vue or svelte because they are, ironically, reactive. React greedily rerenders.

It's also not a problem with the react compiler.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by sunaookami »

josteink wrote: post #218
Aurornis wrote: post #168

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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…

Same with Pinterest in Germany which seems bizarre to me. It's supposedly more popular than Twitter, Twitch, Snapchat, LinkedIn and Reddit (but below TikTok, Instagram and Facebook).

EDIT: Data from 2023: https://medias.smart-home-fox.de/SDE/Social%20Media%20Statis...

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by g947o »

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…

Reclaiming memory is not free.

It's better not to use 2.4G RAM in the first place. Imagine LinkedIn isn't so hostile to users and instead actually cares about user experience.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by throwuxiytayq »

bvan wrote: post #86

As much as you all dislike LinkedIn and the cringy posts, keep in mind that for certain parts of the market it is >the< main professional forum. It is where your investors live, and their capital providers live. So, play nice, yeah?

I know a lot of people who use LinkedIn, and I don't think any of them are happy with their job. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
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