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?

Other people are one of many ways you can test what you believe to be true but, yes, sometimes other people might have figured something out that you haven't, believe it or not.

You need to go out and observe the world to test your theories and hypotheses.

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

It sounds like someone hasn't yet invested in a turbo encabulator.

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

Yep, once you learn about Latent temperature fusion, ones view on these things change drastically.

It also explains why boiling water doesn't spontaneously just explode into vapor once it hits that temperature

The concept of heat of fusion blew my mind when I learned about it in high school chemistry. Feels extremely counterintuitive at first.

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

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...

Thanks for the suggestion. DuckDB is a great tool, but it requires installing a native extension, which is exactly the scenario php-fts is designed to avoid. The primary target is shared hosting (OVH, Infomaniak, o2switch…) where you have no control over installed extensions. If you can install DuckDB, you can probably also run Meilisearch or Typesense, which are purpose-built for search.