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Only very very poorly built websites. So all the news sites.

There are definitely a thousand people here more qualified on this stuff (I write Fortran lol) but I thought JavaScript was all asynchronous now? Shouldn’t the actually desired content load independently of the ads?

Fortran is cool, what do you work on?

Parallel linear system solvers.

Grad student, so mostly I use Fortran so it’ll plug into my professor’s code more easily, haha.

No complaints, though. It is a fine language.

Requests for remote content don’t delay rendering of the page. Everything will be significantly faster.