[-] Hyperlon@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

In google's case, you might be right. However in general what are you expecting the website to say? An explanation of why react was chosen over other languages? Otherwise the reason you have to enable JavaScript on a react website is because the site doesn't work without it. I see that like complaining that your gas light on your car doesn't provide an explanation as to why gas is required for it to run.

If you are curious why a lot of sites use languages like react instead of plain html, there are a few reasons. Prior to react like languages, web servers would generate the page, send it to you, and then anytime you interacted with the site it would send you a whole new page to display. I.e. if you opened a popup for uploading a file, it would send you a whole new page to display which is why older sites flicker on basically any interaction. Newer sites that use things like React are downloaded once. It basically downloads the code to make the website and then runs entirely on your machine. The benefit to this is that if you sort a list, open a drop-down, open a popup to download a file, etc. it all happens on your computer instead of some remote server. No need to wait for a server to respond or download a new page, it can update that specific part of the page instead. Some sites are even fully functional offline because of this which is really cool in my opinion.

This makes a far better user experience because everything is instant and doesn't trigger page reloads on every interaction with the site.

It's good for developers because it allows code reusability and vastly increases what you can do. Many of the critical features I have on my site are not possible without JavaScript/React. I actually first developed the site using the old style and changed it over to React because of those limitations.

Google could have updated their site to one of these languages to open up new possibilities in what they can do on their site. That or they might be making it more consistent with their other products for maintainability reasons. I find it unlikely that the people who have JavaScript turned off are a large enough portion of the population for them to care about their data but I could be wrong.

[-] Hyperlon@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

A lot of websites are react which doesn't function without JavaScript. It's a more powerful tool for web dev and can be a better experience for the user if used right.

[-] Hyperlon@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

You are adding more mass to your body, but you are also decreasing your body's density. So this should in fact make you lighter on the surface of the earth.

[-] Hyperlon@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

That's what Ed Edd and Eddy live on.

[-] Hyperlon@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

I'd rather not refuel in -20F weather on a single trip. Add in a trailer and a road trip becomes a charging trip with intermittent driving.

[-] Hyperlon@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Year end business review

[-] Hyperlon@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Because AI is obviously better at solving math than the code programmers wrote. Duh. /S

[-] Hyperlon@lemmy.world 18 points 9 months ago

For the reason above. There's not a serious alternative that replaced it for those people.

[-] Hyperlon@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

That same logic would apply to every animal chickens, pigs, sheep, most fish, etc. other than perhaps elk or bison.

[-] Hyperlon@lemmy.world 27 points 9 months ago

Alternative title: People are stealing writers names to get their propaganda published. It is possible the propaganda was made by AI.

[-] Hyperlon@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

No, they'll just garnish your wages

[-] Hyperlon@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

What if I liked to make my female character as funny as possible because that's what I find attractive, Is that objectifying them? What if I made them red headed for that reason, is that objectifying them? Objectifying is to treat a woman like an object. Liking a particular type of woman is your preference, not an objectification of women.

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