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Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by kjkjadksj »

mrweasel wrote: post #91
dzonga wrote: post #20

for jobs - indeed is better or other small avenues in their heyday such as HN who is hiring (all my jobs have come through hn) other avenues - local slack channels. linkedIn - good for initial connection with strangers you don't know and might find valuable linkedIn - good for keeping tabs on companies or new startups

It probably depend on where you live and who you are. LinkedIn is my backup in case of a layoff. It's the site where I can reach everyone who worked with me or have made offers in the past. If you do what I do, live in my general area and know the right people (which I do), LinkedIn will get you an interview or three lined up in a day or two. None of these people are on Indeed, HackerNews or even Slack.

I think before linkedin people were doing this with email and phone. Literally cold calling your old coworkers. Not sure linkedin really created anything that didn’t exist previously especially if you live in some major hub of industry as you indicate.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by surgical_fire »

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 keep an up-to-date profile so recruiters reach out.

It's useless otherwise.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by xeromal »

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've gotten two very good jobs from linkedin.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by legitster »

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?

LinkedIn has the most clear para-social relationship. Post and interact to look good for recruiters and future employers.

Sprinkle in a few business sociopaths and various opportunist "influencers" and you have a semi-self sustaining feed.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by MengerSponge »

xioxox wrote: post #173
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?

A surprising number of scientists seem to use it, likely because of the now terrible atmosphere for scientists on Twitter/X and the emptiness of bluesky.

Bluesky doesn't push an algorithmic feed, so it looks empty if you aren't following people who are posting.

FWIW starter kits and topical feeds are a great way to jumpstart your algorithm.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by trash_cat »

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?

Sales people using it a lot to scout prospects and understand a person's seniority in an organisation, to target better and prepare a strategy to pitch higher up the chain.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by dijit »

Nearly all the top level comments are about the value of Linkedin at all rather than the technical reasons that 2.4G of RAM for a website is atrocious.

Can we talk about how it's possible that any application short of video editing can require so much RAM?

In fact, I've done video editing on computers with 1GiB of RAM back in 2004 and it worked fine, (for the 1024x768 resolution which was en vogue at the time)..

Is linkedin doing something complex? Is there a reason that it requires more resources than my entire computer from 20 years ago, or my entire operating system, text editor and compiler today?

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by dijit »

alyandon wrote: post #176

Back in the ancient days of the web, browsers allowed you to set resource limits (ram, cache, etc) to prevent websites from hogging the limited resources of your desktop system. It's really a shame that all major browsers have since decided that you as a user should have almost no control over how much ram and storage any arbitrary website can consume now.

Goes with the territory of allowing remote code execution arbitrarily and all the time otherwise you won't be able to..

* checks notes *

read text on the internet.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by a4isms »

estimator7292 wrote: post #178
Aurornis wrote: post #168

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Very few people with LinkedIn profiles read the social feed. Even fewer post things to it. The majority use LinkedIn only for job searching and keeping contacts. I do some times wonder if any hiring managers see a lot of LinkedIn social post activity as a positive thing. The few times we’ve interviewed candidates who had a lot of LinkedIn posting activity it was considered a risk: We could go through their LinkedIn a…

> I do some times wonder if any hiring managers see a lot of LinkedIn social post activity as a positive thing. About a year ago I had a friend recommend me to their management. After three rounds of interviews, the CEO overrode the process and rejected me because I didn't have enough on my LinkedIn profile. As far as I'm concerned, I dodged a bullet. If the CEO cares so much about LinkedIn filler that he'd overrule…

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 hand and didn't use Claude. Another wants to see that you know how to code by hand, but although your solution is fast, compact, and correct, it isn't the solution they had in mind.

At the end of the day, it's a highly inefficient, mostly irrational process dominated by social factors rather than objective feature detection.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by phendrenad2 »

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?

There's a long tail of users who still visit out of habit. The last useful thing there was job listings, but between LinkedIn doing nothing to combat bots clicking apply on every job, the "fake job listings" phenomenon, and the job market being atrocious, you're better off playing the lottery.

So, failing social media platform, full of bots, when is Elon Buying it?

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