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This behavior is pretty much the state of the American two party political system. For example, Democrats had countless attempts to make abortion a constitutional right, but if they did, they could no longer count on using that subject for fundraising against the "enemy". Using Democrats as an example, both parties are guilty.

Vector search is not exclusively in the domain of text search. There is always image/video search.

But pre-filtering is important, since you want to reduce the set of items to be matched on and it feels like Elasticsearch/OpenSearch are fairing better in this regard. Mixed scoring derived from both both sparse and dense calculations is also important, which is another strength of ES/OS.

Curious about the lack of Vespa, especially given the thoroughness of the article and its long-time reputation. OpenSearch is also missing, but perhaps it can be considered being lumped in with Elasticsearch due to them both being based on Lucene. The products are starting to diverge, so would be nice to see, especially since it is open-source.

For the performance-based columns, would be also helpful to see which versions were tested. There is so much attention lately for vector databases, that they all are making great strides forward. The Lucene updates are notable.

Great article. Well done. Have you considered adding an RSS feed for your content?

I spent 3 months in South Africa, primarily in Cape Town. Visted Mabu Vinyl, but sadly did not purchase anything (was backpacking, so traveling light). Owner was lovely.

The documentary is not exaggerating the fact that Rodriguez was immensely popular in South Africa. Heard his music playing on iPods in bars, young 20 somethings that not only listened to him, but so did their parents.

The movie does exaggerate his disappearance. Rodriguez toured Australia, so he knew he had some popularity.

A few years later, I met the owner of Light in the Attic records, the reissue label that repressed Rodriguez's albums. They acquired the rights before the documentary, and even they were amazed at the popularity of his music after the movie. He told basically that Rodriguez paid for his house due to the sales.

That is what I assumed as well, until one day I got hit by a bug involving Extension Mechanisms for DNS (EDNS). Never knew it existed. All of a sudden DNS was failing and could not understand why. Took me a long time to fix the issue.

Not too far from the Remote Lounge was a Clockwork Orange themed bar named Korova Milk Bar around the same time.

If anyone from posthog is reading this, please fix your RSS feed. The link actually points back to the blog homepage.

The overwhelming majority of users on most social networking sites are lurkers. Those lurkers did not vote. I would assuming the majority of users do not even know about the changes or the blackout.