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Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by kevin_thibedeau »

tombert wrote: post #338
userbinator wrote: post #321

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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.

> and it's a mandatory field.

It's also an EEO violation. Report them. I've never had a Li account and never will because of their slimy tactics early on and their eventual conversion into a narcissist circle jerk.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by ben-schaaf »

littlestymaar wrote: post #398
ben-schaaf wrote: post #352

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The alternative is that for every glyph you render the entire glyph to the screen using the Bezier curves from the font, and you end up with dogshit performance - like the new windows terminal (not sure if they've fixed it yet). Caching glyphs is good resource management and with modern screen resolutions, color displays and subpixel-antialiasing you just simply need more than 70KB of RAM.

> The alternative is that for every glyph you render the entire glyph to the screen using the Bezier curves from the font No, because you have no reason to have much more glyphs in your font cache than what fits your screen either (for people using a language with an alphabet based on the latin one at least, which is the majority of people on this website). > you just simply need more than 70KB of RAM. I didn't set t…

> I didn't set the bar to 70kB

The GP to your original did set the bar at 70kB, mattmanser then explained that images and fonts easily exceed that, and then you called that poor resource management. Sounds like we're on the same page here, but you seemed to have missed the context of the comment you initially replied to.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by shiroiuma »

zero-st4rs wrote: post #286
fritzo wrote: post #221

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Sorry for my ignorance, but what exactly is the distinction between hn and social media? Is it the personalization that distinguishes the two? Does "social" mean "feed depends on graph neighborhood"? So collaborative filtering + ranking algorithms + moderation is not social media until you add graph neighborhoods?

I think the distinction is pretty easy imo. HN is topic centered, Social Media is person-centered. Before MySpace there was a pretty big proliferation of forums and other topic centered discourse. The profile was such a minor part of those tools. When MySpace came out, the profile was the home page for a lot of people, and the content orbited around that. Coupled with the mass movement to represent oneself faithfully…

>On LinkedIn this is mandatory, your "avatar" must mirror your physical self.

Huh? On LinkedIn, the only thing that's mandatory is to have a profile that maybe looks like your resume, and that's about it. A photo helps too. Lots of people do nothing more with it than that, and use it to find jobs.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by shiroiuma »

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…

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

I haven't seen this at all, but I normally do provide my LinkedIn URL to companies that I apply to through that platform. I don't really see the problem, though: I don't post anything (I'm not a LinkedIn Lunatic, though I've seen this with some coworkers), so what's the problem? To me, LinkedIn is mostly just a way to find jobs, and also maintain an online resume of sorts, and also to stay in some sort of contact with previous coworkers. I've had a bunch of recruiters try to recruit me for jobs through it. So it is helpful IMO, but only for career purposes. But I sure as hell don't post opinion crap on there, esp. political drivel. I don't mind the posts from people pointing out, for instance, interesting stuff about Python, so sometimes I read those. I also find entertainment in reading the posts about how companies with ridiculous recruiting practices fail to find decent candidates.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by rglynn »

a4isms wrote: post #209
estimator7292 wrote: post #178

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> 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…

Depends on seniority and market, but my experience has not matched this. In my recent search I even had a company change their process at my request. Too many companies just copy the FAANG approach without considering if it suits their team(s).

We have some responsibility as candidates to tell HR departments and recruiters that some stuff doesn't fly.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by littlestymaar »

ben-schaaf wrote: post #462
littlestymaar wrote: post #398

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The alternative is that for every glyph you render the entire glyph to the screen using the Bezier curves from the font No, because you have no reason to have much more glyphs in your font cache than what fits your screen either (for people using a language with an alphabet based on the latin one at least, which is the majority of people on this website). > you just simply need more than 70KB of RAM. I didn't set t…

> I didn't set the bar to 70kB The GP to your original did set the bar at 70kB, mattmanser then explained that images and fonts easily exceed that, and then you called that poor resource management. Sounds like we're on the same page here, but you seemed to have missed the context of the comment you initially replied to.

> The GP to your original did set the bar at 70kB

It didn't, here's the comment in question:

> A probe collecting data in space takes It makes no mention that an app should be under 70kB. It just note that 100MB is still *enormous* compared to 70kB.

And I maintain that the difference cannot be explained by images and font cache alone.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by zero-st4rs »

shiroiuma wrote: post #463
zero-st4rs wrote: post #286

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the distinction is pretty easy imo. HN is topic centered, Social Media is person-centered. Before MySpace there was a pretty big proliferation of forums and other topic centered discourse. The profile was such a minor part of those tools. When MySpace came out, the profile was the home page for a lot of people, and the content orbited around that. Coupled with the mass movement to represent oneself faithfully…

>On LinkedIn this is mandatory, your "avatar" must mirror your physical self. Huh? On LinkedIn, the only thing that's mandatory is to have a profile that maybe looks like your resume, and that's about it. A photo helps too. Lots of people do nothing more with it than that, and use it to find jobs.

https://www.linkedin.com/legal/user-agreement

8.1. Dos

Use your real name on your profile; and

8.2. Don’ts

Create a false identity on LinkedIn, misrepresent your identity, create a Member profile for anyone other than yourself (a real person), or use or attempt to use another’s account (such as sharing log-in credentials or copying cookies);

But profile pictures are here >

https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a1377087/profi...

> You can use an illustration, caricature, or other artistic rendering of yourself, but your profile photo must reflect your likeness. We may remove profile photos that don’t comply with our User Agreement and Professional Community Policies, including images that consist solely of the following:

I'm pretty sure even this has been updated to accommodate all the Ghibli AI avatars that people use.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by inaros »

tartoran wrote: post #280
inaros wrote: post #52

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I always saw LinkedIn, as nothing more than the best dating site in the world. My results so far have been stellar.

Wait, are you dating on LinkedIn?

Do you understand the concept of side channel attacks? :-)
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