This is impressive. Good work.

Source? As a counter anecdote: Madrid, where most people live near traffic, has the highest life expectancy in the EU at 85.4 years.

I had to look it up, i was indeed mistaken. It's 79 days on average. The road is called the A10, so I guess I mixed that up :)

Source, in dutch: https://www.hln.be/milieu/omwonenden-a10-snelweg-leven-79-da...

maybe there are other factors at play here; who knows how long would they live if they didn't live near traffic.

What are they doing differently to get this average?

I'm pretty sure IKEA has been legally Dutch for a while now.

Peer-reviews have been broken way before GPT. People are expected to do it for free in a publish or perish academia...

Compared to his contemporaries? He is possibly the most influential sculptor of the Renaissance. Michelangelo wasn't even born yet when Donatello died.

That’s fair. I saw his sculptures in Florence as a part of a larger exhibit and his were by far the most abstract looking. But I don’t remember the dates.

grammar as we know it was devised for the Latin language and linguists spend most of the time attempting to fit other languages into neat boxes that the Latin grammar wasn't designed for. This of course leads to absurdity. Chomsky attempted to solve this problem with his universal grammar, but that too stops working quickly once you get outside of European languages. That is, ignoring linguistic tools is one of the reasons GPT is successful.

> that too stops working quickly once you get outside of European languages

I don’t think this is entirely fair. Generative grammars have been produced for a huge variety of non-European languages, even non-Indo-European languages, and can account for tremendous diversity in linguistic rules. Even languages without fixed word orders or highly synthetic languages can be represented.

Linguistics isn’t focused on the problem of outputting reasonable-sounding text responses. Instead, it seeks to transparently explain how language works and is structured, something that GPT does not do.

That is not what universal grammar was about. Literally read even the wikipedia page or watch like any lecture on the topic.

What exactly did I write that is wrong? UG argues a universal grammar exists, and that humans innately posses knowledge about this grammar. It's this grammar that enables humans to learn a language (according to UG). They (UG linguists) have created a system of syntax rules that attempts to describe any language, but failed at doing so once they step outside of Indo-European languages. This is partly because Chomsky was hired by MIT to solve machine translation and putting language into a set of neat boxes was his best idea and partly because Chomsky himself had little knowledge of other languages. It's pseudoscience.

Ok now you've made it mostly accurate credit where its due. This is not what you first said.

>grammar as we know it was devised for the Latin language and linguists spend most of the time attempting to fit other languages into neat boxes that the Latin grammar wasn't designed for....Chomsky tried to . All solve this problem with Universal Grammar.

Well first of all, every language has some form of grammar. If there were no rules that made meaning depend on word order, there would be nothing different between what the cat ate and what ate the cat. To claim Grammar is some Latin/Western system being unduly applied is absurd.

You are correct UG was invented as a to explain something about English. Howevert was not an attempt to solve "this problem ("this problem" being conforming to expected systems of Grmmar.) The problem he was interested in solving was about the ability to learn language rapidly despite not having many negative examples of how not to talk. Pay attention here researchers, the lesson maybe extends to you too soon.

UG also isn't a specific enough thing you can check against in a directory. Its a theory, namely a theory that if you study language features you'll eventually discver some things are invaiant. Using it directly and immediately based on nothing but Chomsky's conjecture...all I can focus on passing out at screen goodnightn

Goodbye, good old trusted Linode :(

Not sure it was trusted - I think they had root level control plane breaches in their stack?

That was over ten years ago. AFAIK there's never been a pattern of problems.

My memory was there were multiple and at least one badly handled - but it’s been awhile

Yes they did about 8 years ago.

The first thing that depresses wages in Southern Europe is lack of value creation.

I prefer Stimulus vs htmx + hyperscript for two reasons:

1. You can easily reimplement all htmx and hyperscript functionality and fine-tune to your liking

2. You are not limited by htmx and hyperscript

If you set the width/height to 12px, set the image's left padding to 0, and center things vertically with flex, it looks significantly better.

  image.width = 12
  image.height = 12
  image.style.marginRight = '0.25em'
  //image.style.paddingRight = '0.25em'
  //image.style.paddingLeft = '0.25em'

  document.querySelectorAll('.athing > td:nth-child(3), .titlelink').forEach(e => { 
    e.style.display = 'flex',
    e.style.alignItems = 'center',
    e.style.marginRight = '0.25em'
  })

Screenshot: https://imgur.com/BN2wHgo

That does look much better. Thank you