Huh. Took 'em a while. A few years of Reagan proved that point long ago.

I can’t speak for the performance of frameworks, but today’s ‘vanilla’ javascript both compiles and executes blisteringly fast. The better-optimized it is, the better. Staying away from modern syntactic sugar may also help.

I can understand that those who choose to use frameworks may be newcomers, or may have productivity pressures. Neither source of slowdowns can be blamed in JS itself.

But this headline distorts that reality by leaving out the fact that the article itself is about using JS frameworks. Whatever the ‘long-term performance goals’ may be, writing the fastest code can’t hurt them. Suggesting otherwise is a disservice to JS.

" … Or maybe it was released by ‘ICE-helpers’ trying to get people to stop all of the well-deserved harsh criticism." Oh wait, the NYT is the holy of holies… never mind …

"Reportedly.’

That headline may be true. Or maybe it was released by ‘ICE-helpers’ trying to get people to stop all of the well-deserved harsh criticism. By now that’s hundreds of millions of names to go through. Maybe that will help them burn through their remaining funds faster.

Could be that the shittier sites are using tricks to make people hang around them as long as possible?

Also, sites that are ‘strange and a bit obscure’ are probably more likely to require us to take what they report with more grains of salt. They’re likely to have fewer visitors who can call BS on stuff.

I think we’ll have to wait until about 48 days after the House falls on the Wicked Witch of the East.

The state of the web … is fucking abysmal.

Like the whole rest of the world… that’s the users’ faults, not the developers.

Yes yes a thousand times yes! The web exists to enable interaction more than cracking open a book or magazine. If all you’re after is blogs, sure, turn it off.

Static pages are fine if you don’t want to interact with them. Books have been around since the 1400s.

But they won’t let you search a whole book for particular name, place, term. Or take your input and calculate answers for you? Or let you create music or art? etc. etc.

Without JS, most webpages couldn’t do 1/10th of what they do. There’d just be text and pictures. OK for fairytale books.

Not since the last years of the Roman Empire has there been such a fine example. Also an even better example of how to tear your own gang to shreds.

Have a look at ‘Carl Sagan’s Baloney Detection Kit’ here: https://www.openculture.com/2025/09/the-carl-sagan-baloney-detection-kit.html These ideas are ‘common sense’ to ’ people who Quantum for a living’. Immortality - right or wrong- is WAY OUTSIDE what’s within the reach of day-to-day science.

Penrose is a talented and knowledgeable guy who’s can afford to ‘think outside the box’ without making crazy claims. The guy who thought up plate tectonics was ‘rushed out of the room’ for 50 years … until people realized the value of his idea.

The main points are there in text. If you want to hear more about each point, the YT video goes into them in detail.

I think it could change, here in the US … whenever it’s clearly demonstrated that that’s what’s going on … and if parents then pressure legislators (if they can find enough willing to fight corporate interests) to control it. In the meantime, ‘saving the children’ will be up to parents who take measures themselves.

Parents will get the behavior they reinforce. My mom, whenever I asked for ANYTHING I saw on TV, NEVER responded. Kids that scream when the phone’s taken away should NEVER get them back.

Very true, I’ve had whole cited paragraphs removed by non-registered users. Of course, IF you’ve got the time, you can look through the article history pages. For recently embarassed subjects, it’s not hard to spot the deletions over the past month or two, as they’re colored in red.

“And … what do you do?”

“Are you sure you’re ready to know?”

Which one of those guys is William Tell?

My only ‘smart’ appliance is a desktop monitor … and I re-pointed its ‘report’ feature to a non-existant URL. Want my data? Maybe, but they’ll have pay for each bit.

Wouldn’t doubt it if they did market to kids. TV networks did it for decades, every Saturday morning, with no FCC challenges.

PBS had services for children as well. Were Bert and Ernie or Mr. Rogers ‘addictive’? I have no idea what YT for children is like, but I wouldn’t have handed my kids over to them to babysit without checking them out … frequently. Corporations exist for one purpose. Will government stop them?

MTV was like radio was for decades before it came along. Black artists with great music and no hits would get covered by cheesy white artists like Pat Boone who got big hits. Baked into the system.

Of course Bowie grew up in a place where the BBC handled alla that kind of sorting.

“addiction in children’s brains”

I don’t think these corporations deliberately aimed their content at any age group. Kids are not ready for alcohol or cars or pron. Did the corporations care? Probably not. Would they have at one time, here in the US? Yes, back when legislators were answerable to their constituents. At one time the FCC worried about the lyrics in songs on the radio. The population was more uptight about it. Then.

OTOH: I recall times when parents oversaw what their children consumed. They didn’t need to buy them smartphones or laptops, and they could have enforced rulse on their use. Parenting isn’t for everyone.