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Very depressing to see this next to the "LinkedIn uses 2.4GB of RAM" post.
by manytimesaway 7mo ago
Very depressing to see this next to the "LinkedIn uses 2.4GB of RAM" post.
- jagged-chisel 7mo agoTakes a lot of resources to track your users rather than just cruising through space
- flykespice 7mo ago""just""
- echelon 7mo agoIt takes a lot to deliver value at velocity with a team of engineers that couldn't give a damn about the product and just want to get a paycheck, move up the ladder, etc. LinkedIn is not a fun problem. The UI, the design, the dark patterns - all of it sucks. It's a job. Nobody particularly wants to be there. There's nothing sacred about the product. Engineers don't worship it. It isn't a place you'd take a pay cut for the opportunity to work there. Hence the bloat.
- kermatt 7mo agoVoyager only needs to track itself. Plus, no ads.
- divbzero 7mo agoAny website that uses more memory than Voyager 1 should be considered bloated.
- amiga-workbench 7mo agoThere's almost certainly less than 69KB of useful human-readable information on any given page.
- tombert 7mo agoI was actually a bit curious how much HN uses, since it's probably the lightest site that I frequent. According to Brave's dev tools, looks like just shy of about 90kb on this comment page as of the time of this writing. Obviously some of that is going to be CSS rules, a small amount of JS (I think for the upvotes and the comment-collapse), but I don't think anyone here called HN "bloated". Even that one page wouldn't fit on Voyager.
- rkagerer 7mo agoThere is more information in a typical, single page of comments here than there is on the average webpage. And I'd say a far higher signal to noise ratio (though depending on the topic discussed some will disagree).
- reaperducer 7mo agoI was actually a bit curious how much HN uses, since it's probably the lightest site that I frequent. I use an iPhone 5 as an iPod. HN is one of the few web sites that still works with iOS 10.
- jprd 7mo agoNice. Do you just use your 5 as a stationary iPod, or do you dual-carry with a modern device as well? Curious on if you also use it to wi-fi the web on your local LAN periodically too, of it that was just a periodic test to check if HN worked.
- reaperducer 7mo agoI use it around the house to Airplay music to various devices. A number of things don't work, or work in unexpected ways, mostly because Apple doesn't allow me to log in to iCloud with such an old phone. I can't control lights with the Home app. But Airplay works fine. The phone doesn't know what a HomePod is, but it shows up with a regular generic speaker icon, like the AirMac I have hooked up to my stereo. Sometimes I have a few minutes to kill, and I pick it up to look at HN. The New York Times web site starts to work, but the login page doesn't load at all. WSJ blocks me at a "verifying the device" screen. WaPo half works. eBay works some, but no pictures. Ditto for Wikipedia. There's a lot of things you take for granted on a new phone that you only realize when you're using an old phone. Like you didn't used to be able to quickly scroll an entire web page it's only a screen at a time in iOS 10. You can't grab the scroll bar on the side and move it, either. And 99.9999% of people don't realize the genius of the camera island. It makes it so much easier to pick up the phone if one end is elevated a bit. With a completely flat phone, you end up dragging/scraping it along the table in order to grip it, which scuffs the surface. And if the table is really smooth, it's surprisingly difficult to lift the phone straight up.
- varjag 7mo agoAny development team larger than Apollo programming team of 350 is overstaffed.
- reaperducer 7mo agoAny development team larger than Apollo programming team of 350 is overstaffed We put a man on the moon mostly with pencils and slide rules. Today we have massive data centers full of "AI" supercomputers, and we get… TikTok?
- qingcharles 7mo agoSurprising fact I just noticed about the next Moon landing attempt -- it'll take up to 22 launches to get everything into space needed for the attempt.
- TeMPOraL 7mo agoThat's good, actually. We need to develop the capability to stage/assemble in-orbit, as this would relax a lot of hard constraints on size and complexity of the missions.
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- jacquesm 7mo agoVindication, finally.
- tape_measure 7mo agoSeems that both of these articles are written by LLMs.
- layer8 7mo agoYou have to spin it positively: LinkedIn is 350.000 x Voyager.
- winnie_ua 7mo agoTo be fair. this HN thread useees 40-70 MB of ram in Chrome.
- rcaught 7mo ago[dead]