You're referring to the Provisional IRA?
Tell us again how successful they were in their goals of ending British rule in Northern Ireland.
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Exactly, even if you had no front end language at all, and just requests to backend servers for static html and CSS content, those sites would still suck because they would ship the first shitty server that made them money out the door and not care that it got overloaded or was coded garbagely.
Yeah, did you read the examples you gave?
Your literal only modern example is a case in Fiji, an island with a population the size of Nashville, Tennessee, and army of 6,500 people.
And the coup was only successful because the special forces unit of the army that was run by a former SAS commander joined the coup and armed them.
I say this as someone who has been diagnosed with ADHD and who has a dad who says exactly the above, and who everyone in the family agrees almost certainly has undiagnosed ADHD.
I just think it's important to not dismiss the very real effects of smartphone usage and addiction. If you struggle with ADHD symptoms, then it's important to not dismiss and justify other factors that exacerbate them and make them even harder to deal with (especially when those factors are changeable, like reducing our social media and smartphone usage).
Honestly have to disagree pretty hard.
Our smartphone addiction really seems to exacerbate attention span issues and fucks with our reward systems.
Go for a few weeks or a month without using a smartphone to see the difference, or get an e-ink android phone to try and break the reward loop and see how you feel.
Like, start by outlining the effects of smartphone use and addiction, then lay those effects next to the symptoms of ADHD, and notice the significant overlap.
There are definitely a lot of undiagnosed parents who were forced to develop coping strategies and think their kids need to too in unhealthy ways, but there are also a lot of undiagnosed parents whose symptoms have gotten worse with smartphone use.
Personal firearms have basically never been used to resist government tyranny in the US or entire rest of the developed world in modern times.
What does consistently work is mass mobilization and turning out in numbers.
No, it really didn't benefit them in any meaningful way.
Widespread gun ownership has gotten an enormous number of innocent people killed though.
No one cares about whether or not they use a dashboard to track signals intelligence data. The interesting part of this story is the unpublished assassination weapon, not how they selected targets.
Lmao, oh yes bruv, let's provide our users with a card catalog to find information on our website.
It worked for hundreds of years so it's good enough for them right?
People want pleasant UXs that react quickly and immediately to their actions. We have decades of UX research very clearly demonstrating this.
An fuck off with these dumbass, utterly vacuous Anti JavaScript rants.
I'm getting so sick of people being like "I keep getting hurt by bullets, clearly it's the steel industry that's the problem".
Your issue isn't with JavaScript it's with advertising and data tracking and profit driven product managers and the things that force developers to focus on churning out bad UXs.
I can build an insanely fast and performant blog with Gatsby or Next.js and have the full power of React to build a modern pleasant components hierarchy and also have it be entirely statically rendered and load instantly.
And guess what, unlike the author apparently, I don't find it a mystery. I understand every aspect of the stack I'm using and why each part is doing what . And unlike the author's tech stack, I don't need a constantly running server just to render my client's application and provide basic interactivity on their $500 phone with a GPU more powerful than any that existed from 10 years ago.
This article literally says absolutely nothing substantive. It just rants about how websites are less performant and react is complicated and ignore the reality that if every data tracking script happened backend instead, there would still be performance issues because they are there for the sole reason that those websites do not care to pay to fix them. Full stop. They could fix those performance issues now, while still including JavaScript and data tracking, but they don't because they don't care and never would.
Yeah, HTML is simple and completely and utterly static. Its simple to the point of not being useful for displaying stuff to the user.
Oh so you're advocating for resisting in unproductive ways that don't accomplish your goals? Glad to get that out in the open.
Also, the Provisional IRA primarily used military weapons leftover from WW2, modern ones to the era smuggled in from Libya, and homemade IEDs, so not a particularly relevant example.