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The strawberry example reminds me of the Instant Mashed Potatoes non-book review [0].

> Since World War II and the large-scale industrialization it fully unleashed, a core method driving ‘progress’ across many different fields of human endeavor has been to shred something real and reconstitute it into a faster, easier, less appealing IMPish substitute for what we used to make out of it. This is the parsimonious recipe for industry to fulfill our urges. We’ve got the food processor whirring, and absolutely everything is going in.

[0] https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/your-review-my-fathers-inst...

Would you be willing to speculate on how VectorChord's ingestion and query performance might compare to Elasticsearch/OpenSearch for dense vector and sparse vector search use cases, particularly when dealing with larger full text data sets (>5M records)?

“There is no justice in the laws of nature, no term for fairness in the equations of motion. The Universe is neither evil, nor good, it simply does not care. The stars don't care, or the Sun, or the sky.

But they don't have to! WE care! There IS light in the world, and it is US!”

― Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

I was moved by your personal story, Irina. Thank you for sharing it with the world. I hope others who are struggling through similar challenges discover this article and find new hope and perspective in your words. I am happy you found your voice again.

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For fun, I built a search experience for their product catalog using App Search this morning. https://agitated-heyrovsky-08b108.netlify.app/

I recently found Checkvist for note taking. The progressive web app is really fast to load. The best part is extensive keyboard shortcuts for everything. Prior to finding Checkvist, I used text files for years.

Another idea I have heard is to encode your feature flags and entitlements as a bitwise string, and include this string in your customer's signed auth token. This way, your front end and back end don't have to hit your entitlements API all the time. When they change plans, just refresh the auth token.