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I suspect DOM modelling/rendering also has an impact as I've surfed with JS off, using Firefox on an older (mid-aughts) iMac running Linux ... and can't get muc

I suspect DOM modelling/rendering also has an impact as I've surfed with JS off, using Firefox on an older (mid-aughts) iMac running Linux ... and can't get much past 2--4 tabs before performance becomes absolutely unacceptable. Instrumentation of browsers to show performance constraints remains poor and/or a Black Art, so I'm somewhat winging this. The same system performs wonderfully with scripts, non-browser based requests (e.g., wget, curl), terminal-mode browsers (usually w3m or lynx), and local applications (mailers, audio ripping / playback, GIMP, word-processing, and of course shell tools, as well as a few occasional games perhaps.

h2zizzle 2y ago
>Instrumentation of browsers to show performance constraints remains poor and/or a Black Art Which makes the loss of all our DEI programs over the past month all the more painful.
- dredmorbius 2y ago
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  - h2zizzle 2y ago
    The employment/mentorship pipeline for Black artists seems to have been decimated.
    - dredmorbius 2y ago
      Black arts, or dark arts, refer to a different concept: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_arts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_arts>
      - h2zizzle 2y ago
        Right. It's a topical joke based on the ambiguity of your terminology and current events (and probably did not deserve a downvote). Further, the history of persecution of magic pracitioners would qualify them for DEI outreach. So it works either way. ;)
        dredmorbius 2y ago
        <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33295889 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33295889> It's rare for jokes to play well: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7522885 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7522885>. Particularly where it's not clear whether or not someone's making a joke, or is merely misinterpreting language. A common occurrence where many participants' first language is not English. And especially where the joke itself runs into a tired political fracture.

h2zizzle 2y ago

>Instrumentation of browsers to show performance constraints remains poor and/or a Black Art Which makes the loss of all our DEI programs over the past month all the more painful.

dredmorbius 2y ago
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- h2zizzle 2y ago
  The employment/mentorship pipeline for Black artists seems to have been decimated.
  - dredmorbius 2y ago
    Black arts, or dark arts, refer to a different concept: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_arts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_arts>
    - h2zizzle 2y ago
      Right. It's a topical joke based on the ambiguity of your terminology and current events (and probably did not deserve a downvote). Further, the history of persecution of magic pracitioners would qualify them for DEI outreach. So it works either way. ;)
      - dredmorbius 2y ago
        <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33295889 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33295889> It's rare for jokes to play well: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7522885 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7522885>. Particularly where it's not clear whether or not someone's making a joke, or is merely misinterpreting language. A common occurrence where many participants' first language is not English. And especially where the joke itself runs into a tired political fracture.