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New comment by asphodele in "Exit the Cave"

asphodele — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 21:55:47 +0000

Another word for 'going outside the cave' is 'seeking external validation'. If you need other people to tell you if what you believe is true or not, do you actually believe anything?

New comment by asphodele in "Luanti removed from Google Play due to baseless AI copyright notice"

asphodele — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 18:45:29 +0000

At last! My blargs have been in disarray for ages.

New comment by asphodele in "Oceans hit highest temperature on record"

asphodele — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 21:09:53 +0000

With less ice around than there used to be, the same incident energy can do a lot more ocean heating. It takes 80 calories to convert 1 gram of ice at 0C to 1 gram of water at 0C. Once the ice is melted, a further 80 calories can raise the temperature of the gram of water at 0C to 80C

New comment by asphodele in "Early-life stress leaves a 'scar' inside brain cells in mice"

asphodele — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 06:12:30 +0000

Sitting Bull killed his first buffalo with bow and arrow from horseback at the age of 10.

New comment by asphodele in "Show HN: PHP-fts – Full-text search engine in pure PHP, no extensions"

asphodele — Mon, 18 May 2026 16:32:54 +0000

An alternative for PHP full text search is the PHP DuckDB client [1], and using DuckDB with the Full-Text Search extension [2]. It also stores everything on the local file system and can scale to millions of records.

[1] https://duckdb.org/docs/lts/clients/php [2] https://duckdb.org/docs/current/core_extensions/full_text_se...