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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 userbinator »

tombert wrote: post #248
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…

I agree with most of what you said, but LinkedIn, at least at a superficial level, is the absolute worst to me. It's full of a bunch of inspiration-porn bullshit that I find unbelievably mind-numbing, but also people treat it like Facebook and post a bunch of political and divisive shit on there as well. I wouldn't care if people posted political and divisive shit, and I would really prefer to delete it, but now a lo…

now a lot of job applications require that you give them a LinkedIn URL.

What types of jobs? I find that very hard to believe.

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Post by nickdothutton »

I wish someone would build a LinkedIn that was actually good. That you could actually do business over, and no I don't mean spam people with you BS cold emails which must have a 10000:1 success rate. I wrote a bit about this almost a decade ago and there is nothing.[1]

[1] https://blog.eutopian.io/building-a-better-linkedin/

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Post by lucb1e »

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...

Ah, now I understand your question (and see others already answered). Yeah, I realized that possible confusion after writing it, but hoped it was clear enough after editing in the bit about this AWS problem being in a browser tab. You may have seen the initial version, or it may still have been too confusing. Whoops

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Post by jimbobimbo »

hobobaggins wrote: post #263
christophilus wrote: post #233

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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.

Best Buy is actually one of the worst and slowest websites from any large retailer. I cannot believe how bad it is. It's like they set out to make it pretty and accidentally stepped in molasses.

The irony! My router died literally an hour ago, and I was on bestbuy to buy a new one. Over 5g connection. That was probably the worst shopping experience I had in a while...

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Post by reddalo »

raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #308
maccard wrote: post #49

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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…

The bug in Slack is that it uses Electron

Electron has been a blessing and a horrible thing at the same time.

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Post by charcircuit »

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

Voyager 1 is several orders of magnitude simpler as a product so it makes sense that it uses several orders of magnitude less memory.

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Post by bluedino »

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

That was probably an incredible amount of memory back then. And it probably cost $1,000 USD for 1KB. Who knows how much radiation-hardened space memory was. 10 times that?

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Post by userbinator »

throwuxiytayq wrote: post #226
machomaster wrote: post #127

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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.

Don't know if this is satire, but I do wonder if Musk uses the Grok app himself.
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