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Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by zugi »

drfloyd51 wrote: post #217
a4isms wrote: post #209

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> Turns out being a Jesus nerd was a secret requirement. Wish they could just put that in the job requirements.

Title 7 of the Civil Rights Act, in making religious hiring discrimination illegal, sometimes just drives it underground. Over the years it's done more good than harm, but at a certain point it may be time to let those who want to hire only Jesus nerds self-select.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by christophilus »

lucb1e wrote: post #39

AWS has a similar RAM consumption. I close Signal to make sure it doesn't crash and corrupt the message history when I need to open more than one browser tab with AWS in the work VM. I think after you click a few pages, one AWS tab was something like 1.4GB (edit: found it in message history, yes it was "20% of 7GB" = 1.4GB precisely) Does anyone else have the feeling they run into this sort of thing more often of lat…

I was researching laptops at BestBuy and every page took ages to load, was choppy when scrolling, caused my iPhone 13 mini to get uncomfortably hot in my hand and drained my battery fast. It wouldn’t be noticeably different if they were crypto-mining on my iPhone as I browsed their inventory.

It’s astonishing how bad the experience was.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by spike021 »

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…

social media is only bad if you don't curate what you're looking at. most the platforms these days have features to block posts containing certain words or hashtags.

i've made a lot of great friends using social media over the years both where i live and in other countries.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by pimeys »

beAbU wrote: post #32
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?

I got my last job there, and I have a steady queue of recruiters reaching out the whole time. So I will probably continue to use it as long as I need to eat. I don't engage with the feed at all though. I believe the same applies to many others as well

Beeper has LinkedIn integration, so you can chat with recruiters with any Matrix app without ever opening the website.

https://www.beeper.com/

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by siva7 »

torginus wrote: post #130
andrewl-hn wrote: post #40

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> 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”.

This. I would rather post on any other social media site at work than Linkedin. It's a major signal that the person is looking for work.

Especially the "Let me show you i have a open linkedin tab while screen sharing so you guys know i hate this place" move as if anyone cares.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by siva7 »

cjbgkagh wrote: post #26
alsetmusic wrote: post #19

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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…

Microsoft wanted it to be a social network because they couldn’t buy Facebook. They did buy Yammer though. A lot of the bad policies were implemented when getting LinkedIn ready for sale to boost the short term gains and maximize the sale price, once sold it was hard to reverse the policies in order to maintain a healthy market long term. They do kinda have a mini-monopoly / cornered market so they were able to milk…

Yammer was probably one of the most bizarre m&a stories ever.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by booleandilemma »

ramon156 wrote: post #160
jrm4 wrote: post #152

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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

I disagree completely. If you post something racist on LinkedIn you're probably going to lose your job. Try it, if you don't believe me. If you post something racist here you're going to get downvoted.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by kingstnap »

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?

A big difference is that its culture comes from shared public experience. Everyone sees the same front page not a curated one.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by progval »

surajrmal wrote: post #70
progval wrote: post #46

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It's memory that the kernel cannot use to cache other applications' files.

This isn't true for OS like Windows where the kernel is informed that the memory is discardable and it can prioritize discarding that memory as necessary. It's a shame that Linux doesn't have something similar.

Linux supports it too through madvise():

       MADV_FREE (since Linux 4.5)
              The application no longer requires the pages in the range
              specified by addr and size.  The kernel can thus free these
              pages, but the freeing could be delayed until memory
              pressure occurs.
and

       MADV_DONTNEED
              Do not expect access in the near future.  (For the time
              being, the application is finished with the given range, so
              the kernel can free resources associated with it.)

              After a successful MADV_DONTNEED operation, the semantics
              of memory access in the specified region are changed:
              subsequent accesses of pages in the range will succeed, but
              will result in either repopulating the memory contents from
              the up-to-date contents of the underlying mapped file (for
              shared file mappings, shared anonymous mappings, and shmem-
              based techniques such as System V shared memory segments)
              or zero-fill-on-demand pages for anonymous private
              mappings.
Does Chrome use it, though?
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