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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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Post by timokoesters »

dagmx wrote: post #138
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?

As a hiring manager, it’s still the best place to try and find people for a given role. Especially when it comes to somewhat more specific skills like graphics development.

Do you have advice for building up this network for graphics development? I'm a Master's student building a custom rendering stack with wgpu and it's difficult to meet people interested in specific skills like rendering.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by kube-system »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

I can’t imagine working in a place toxic enough where:

1. That’s the default presumption (rather than someone doing networking for their current role)

2. Where “looking for another job” is a point of contention

Any good senior engineer should be keeping in touch with others in the industry. And good teams are made up of people with good communication skills who want to be there.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by cosmicgadget »

mattmanser wrote: post #262
denysvitali wrote: post #257

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A probe collecting data in space takes <70 kB of memory. I fail to see how this statement should make me feel happy

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...

How much? You typically don't want more than a few different fonts on a given document. And neither fonts nor web images should be bigger than hundreds of kilobytes. How do we get to gigs?

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by 0xbadcafebee »

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 a social network for employment. If you want to employ, or be employed, that's the social network for that.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by thephyber »

nshelia wrote: post #253
denysvitali wrote: post #249

The juxtaposition between this and "Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder" is probably the best one I've seen in a long time

We now have simple chat apps capable of doing almost anything LinkedIn does while using under 100 MB of RAM.

I’m guessing you mean “does” in the sense of a user-facing feature.

I’ve heard that LinkedIn searches for several hundred known browser plugins to identify potential abusive users. If the “simple chat apps” aren’t doing that, then it’s apples-to-oranges.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by troupo »

mattmanser wrote: post #262
denysvitali wrote: post #257

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A probe collecting data in space takes <70 kB of memory. I fail to see how this statement should make me feel happy

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...

Well, and then you have Claude Code which at one point needed 68GB of RAM to run https://x.com/jarredsumner/status/2026497606575398987

:)

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by blharr »

spike021 wrote: post #234
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.

Most social media is actively against that, feeding you recommendations to keep you on the platform.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by wolvoleo »

kube-system wrote: post #307
wolvoleo wrote: post #267

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I know but I think it's more of a 'feature' to prevent recruiters and advertisers from avoiding their overpriced subscriptions and scrape data.

Knowing that doesn't make LinkedIn a better platform in my eyes, on the contrary. It's more an 'if you pay you can do whatever you want' kinda thing.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by SV_BubbleTime »

dinkleberg wrote: post #182
SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do they not also make posts on Indeed or other non-social sites?

The difference is that the recruiters come to you on LinkedIn. This is quite handy when you're currently employed since opportunities come to you that you wouldn't have otherwise looked for.

Cool, even more reason to dislike it. I want my people doing their work, not wondering if the grass is greener somewhere else.
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