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I just assumed it came out of Indian English, and kept spreading as more and more people like to use the word “software” as a synonym for “app” or “program”.

In my house, software will always be an uncountable noun.

Well, I appreciate the advance warning, so I want to hear it.

Google Translate is actually good these days, and seems to mostly preserve the original tone without turning it into Claudeslop.

So if Meta stopped maintaining MyRocks, are they moving to a different solution?

I’m struggling with this as I have apps I would like to share but I literally don’t know how. I can’t post on Reddit. I can post a Show HN, but I’ll probably break some unwritten rule and get shadowbanned. I can share with my friends, but they’re not really the target audience.

The only option I can think of is to just pay influencers, and I’m guessing the cost of influencer marketing is going to be a multiple of what I spent actually developing the app. What am I missing?

I worked on benchmarking in the past, including TPC benchmarks.

When you see a blog post like this, never interpret it as “database A is X% faster than database B”, there are just too many factors.

It’s more like “we put focused work into performance improvements and we expect certain workloads to perform better than the previous release”.

This seems like a good project, and benchmarking is a good way for a development team to iterate on performance. Just want to get my take out there.

> That last detail was the tell: every crawl session was a fresh browser with no persisted thread id

Yep, ai;dr, closed tab

US politicians have been at war against teenage drinking since the 1980s when the minimum drinking age was raised. Gen Z social trends helped it along, but this is the desired outcome of bipartisan policy going back decades.

I’m a Brave user, but I really never really understood how do they make money? Does anyone actually use or care about BAT (the crypto token)?

I haven’t heard anyone mention it in years besides “the crypto thing in Brave that everyone turns off”

Even though I’m all in on using coding agents in my personal projects, I’m so glad I’m not working in a corporate job right now.

> I reached out for help. The standard response from everyone fell between ignoring me or telling me I need to "do it myself".

> You know who did help me? Random strangers on Stack Overflow. People who had nothing to gain from helping me other than just trying to help someone in need.

This part makes the entire post sound like a parody. Maybe Jeff Atwood has a wicked, self-deprecating sense of humor?

Yeah no, ask for help on Stack Overflow and you were were more likely to be met with castigation and snide remarks. It was such a breath of fresh air when ChatGPT let us not have to deal with that community anymore.

Yeah, as a user I came to the same conclusion as I naturally used plan mode less and less over time.

I still use plan mode in Astra to come up with a plan that I then feed into Fable. I feel like OpenAI models still do better big picture investigation and planning, while Claude is the better software engineer, if that makes any sense.

Of course this could well come down to my own biases and the specific things I’m working on.

I'm pretty sure the CEOs of Tesla/SpaceX, OpenAI, and any company depending on data center buildout are painfully aware of physical supply chains and manual labor scarcity right now.

Yeah, I strongly feel this kind of stuff will just fall away as models get smarter and have a longer and longer viable time horizon per task.

Prompt Engineering, OpenClaw, Ralphing (remember that?) have all fallen already.

In my experience you are quite right. Don’t let the shaming replies here get you down.