Sure, a lot of people will not take their understanding any further, but most do not have the will or the time to do so.

Even knowing mean, mode and median is not enough. You really want standard deviation too. And that is just the basics.

1. LCDM predicted hierarchical formation of large galaxies through aggregation. JWST seems to show this is not what happens (large galaxies at early times). I am sure it can be made to work, but it was not a prediction.

2. Constant Lambda - recent obervations seem to show it may be changing (OK - that is more built into the theory rather than being a prediction).

By the way, I am not saying LCDM is not massively successful. It can clearly be used to explain a lot of things. I am saying that I am not aware of many things it successfully predicted ahead of observations being made.

It has always been a minority position - but it is interesting to see a different perspective. ΛCDM is not without it's own problems. Not least that when new observations contradict it, it just gets tweaked - since we still have no idea what the CDM, if it does exist, actually is. It does not have a great predictive record; it is good at explaining obervations after the fact (the CMB notwithstanding).

I am interested to know what the measurements within the solar system are that you refer to. I had thought this was far too small a scale to prove anything about MOND or CDM.

The funeral thing isn't really a position I strongly hold; it's a pithy comment that points out science is a human endeavor and maybe not quite as objective as it is often presented.

But science as a whole is ultimately a self correcting methodology, even if it might take longer than we would want and doesnt always get it right.

Scientists are also human and will tend to defend existing ideas. In cosmology the arguments over LCDM, dark matter and dark energy have been raging for decades. Dark matter people like to say that the Bullet Cluster is incontrovertible evidence of dark matter; MOND people don't agree and point to other aspects they claim refute dark matter! It's gonna take a long time for it all to shake out.

This will first massively slow down the Horspool scan, and then once you have done all that work, you rescan it all from the start with KMP if it is doing too much.

One little fix might be to only add to the work counter and compare it outside of the main character comparison loop.

But it would be better to use the linear version of Hashchain. It also uses KMP to make it linear, but it is fully integrated and you would not need to track the work or restart scanning at all. And its a lot faster than Horspool anyway!

One little thing I spotted is you use Boyer Moore Horspool for fast literal search. This is actually not linear in the worst case, although it is almost always sublinear. Worst case would be a literal composed of the same character searching a text of the same character, where it becomes quadratic.

You can actually search strings with character classes using Horspool if you want to, and I have some enhancements to basic Horspool which could maybe help. My library, byteseek [1], implements these.

I also have a much faster algorithm, HashChain [2] which also has a guaranteed linear time version. This was published in the Symposium for Experimental Algorithmics in 2024.

[1] https://github.com/nishihatapalmer/byteseek

[2] https://github.com/nishihatapalmer/HashChain

I have seen less capable engineers who were more interested in management being promoted. Some engineers may interpret this as promoting incompetence, because many engineers only value engineering competence. Which is also why they don't get put in management positions.

I find it better than google photos already in some ways. For example, to add photos to an album google forces you to scroll slowly through all of them so the thumbnails load, before you can multi select them all. Immich just let me select the top picture, go straight to the bottom and select all of them. Makes a difference when adding over a thousand photos!

I'm not sure what advantage you see to a government in restricting this.

They put them at the bottom of the candidate list on the voting slip. Good to see the election officials had a sense of humor.

Still need food, water, energy and raw materials though. Some kind of collective action seems needed, however that is arranged politically.

Isn't that what Marx says? Capitalism is unstable and collapses from within. He identifies socialism as the next stage (seizing the means of production) that then leads to communism (fully distributed ownership and no real state).

We may of course disagree that these stages are what would actually happen. So far when the state seizes the means of production, it becomes highly authoritarian and doesn't want to relinqish power and move towards actual communism.

I do strongly remember having to strip naked in front of an Italian doctor in Florence and be examined everywhere in great detail. Think this was about 1979.

We went camping in France and then on to Italy. A rabid cat entered our tent in France, but we didn't know it was rabid. The authorities finally managed to track us down to an Italian camp site, no idea how they did that, but glad they did.

If any of us had a single scratch or cut we could not 100% account for, we had to have the injections.