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LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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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…

hackernews has a good signal to noise ratio, noise is bad

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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My company started using slack in 2015 and at that time I put in a bug report to slack that their desktop app was using more memory than my IDE on a 1M+LOC C++ project. I used to stop slack to compile…

It's always good to not slack when compiling.

Just to clarify for other readers, sword fighting while riding office chairs is not slacking.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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post #301

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…

hackernews has a good signal to noise ratio, noise is bad

Honestly, HN has a lot of people getting infuriated by storms in teacups and spouting shit. Definitely an order of magnitude better than Reddit or Facebook but still not the same as IRL.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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As someone was pointing out in a thread the other day about memory usage, a lot is fonts and images. EDIT: Just mind boggling to get d/v'ed for pointing out voyager doesn't have to render fonts or images...

Aka poor resources management. If you have significantly more images loaded in RAM than what fits on your screen, something wrong is going on. (Not counting the filesystem cache here, because it works in a best effort way).

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Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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It's not just memory. I've never been able to scroll back more than about 6 days in the LinkedIn feed. I slows to a crawl and this was on a gaming machine with 64GB of ram. I tried raising all the limits in the browser with only marginal gains. If they had an option to instead use pagination with say 100 items per page I think it might get a little better.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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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…

I kind of love Linkedin tbh. It's where you get jobs. They created Kafka. Definitly don't spend a lot of time there though just more if you need a new job.

How often do people get jobs via LinkedIn? I have never.

Their "social media" aspect sucks. LinkedIn is 99% bullshit posts about people hyping up they have "learned lessons" or sucking up to whoever just hired them.

Kafka is a neat piece of engineering though, I'll grant you that.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

#307

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…

Linkedin is a special kind of shit. It even constantly scans for thousands of plugins.

LinkedIn has aggressive anti-bot features. I wouldn’t be surprised if most of that 2.4G is that

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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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…

My company started using slack in 2015 and at that time I put in a bug report to slack that their desktop app was using more memory than my IDE on a 1M+LOC C++ project. I used to stop slack to compile…

The bug in Slack is that it uses Electron

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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You forgot "I am honoured and humbled to announce ."

The comedy/tragedy of this is; whenever I talk to people outside of engineering at social gatherings, this is what they do. Tell me their resume and accomplishments. I’m like, can we just a have a conversation please?

I always asks the question “what keeps you busy”? People think my wife and I are retired because of how often we travel. I say I’m not, I work remotely and try to keep the conversation away from work.
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