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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 rglover »

deanishe wrote: post #246
estebank wrote: post #188

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Social media being bad is partly because of shady business practices, and partly because a lot of people suck (in different ways, at different times, including us). Having said that all of that, have you tried mastodon?

A large part of the problem, imo, is that people haven't used the ability to talk to the entire planet as an opportunity to broaden their horizons, but to build themselves a transnational bubble of like-minded individuals. Once upon a time, shouting "WTF are they thinking?" into the void was kinda understandable, but these days you can literally just ask them by changing a URL. Don't even have to go to a dodgy pub in…

> That said, assuming bad faith is so common these days, many people assume you're lying if your stated motives don't match their preconceptions.

A brutal reality to navigate if you're not acting in bad faith.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by pndy »

pks016 wrote: post #242
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 think Google closed Google+ because it worked as social media and they couldn't find better ways to exploit users.

Oh they tried to - in a simple "please fill out the form" way. I'll link to my prev comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46425198#46429370

IIRC they tried at some point incorporating G+ on youtube but that didn't work either

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by ssss11 »

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…

So many sites.. they’re all built as web apps these days when they don’t need to be. And they’re all full of tracking and “telemetry”……..

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by userbinator »

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…

If you're talking about the AWS management UI, I haven't used it recently but can tell you that the Azure one is no better. One of the stupidest things I remember is that it somehow managed to reimplement a file upload form for one of their storage services such that it will attempt to read the whole file into memory before sending it to the server. For a storage service meant for very large files (dozens of gigabytes or more).

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by kelnos »

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…

Agreed. There are lots of people posting shitty things on Facebook, Twitter, etc., but on LinkedIn, everyone is so fake. They're putting their best professional face on, heavily self-censoring themselves, and their content plays to the whole "employment culture". It's not even a little bit genuine.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by mr_toad »

QuadmasterXLII wrote: post #222
inaros wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know what AWS is...that is why your statement >> AWS has a similar RAM consumption. Makes no sense to me...

the web interface

The official name is the AWS management console. Or just the console.

The ‘dashboard’, the ‘interface’? Reminds me of coworkers who used to refer to desktop PC cases as the hard drive, or people who refer to the web as ‘Google’.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by thomasgeelens »

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

This right here! I commented about that in that thread, it's like: This 5G calls drops, LinkedIN uses GB's of memory, my fridge needs an update to get the light on but Voyager 1 is out there on 69kb.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by tombert »

userbinator wrote: post #321
tombert wrote: post #248

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I got an email from Indeed for this today: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/doordashusa/jobs/7727512

About 2/3 of the way down you can see LinkedIn Profile, and it's a mandatory field.

There are tons though.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by dagmx »

timokoesters wrote: post #311
dagmx wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

If you’re in a big city, there are likely meetups locally for game devs (usually amateurs but a few professionals show up)

If you aren’t in a location with meetups , the best bet is finding online game dev communities.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by tombert »

kelnos wrote: post #335
tombert wrote: post #248

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Agreed. There are lots of people posting shitty things on Facebook, Twitter, etc., but on LinkedIn, everyone is so fake . They're putting their best professional face on, heavily self-censoring themselves, and their content plays to the whole "employment culture". It's not even a little bit genuine.

I don't even know why they do it. Everyone knows it's fake and performative, this couldn't possibly actually help their careers could it?

AI has made it worse, but they were always horrible.

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