Great Q--it's weird that Apple, Snowflake, and the other big contributors have put essentially zero calories into documentation/website/etc.
There has been some movement lately, though. I'm not sure who exactly to thank, but "the community" created a new unofficial resource for getting going with FoundationDB: https://foundationdb.vercel.app/7.3/
They say, "our goal here is to improve PostHog as a product for our customers, not to expose or sell models trained on your data" but then don't actually list that as a limitation in the bulleted points.
AFAICT this now gives them default permission to train an LLM on your code (as Posthog telemetry data is inextricably tied to your code) use it, and even sell it if they wanted to (as it's not your data anymore, it's their model). Yikes.
Simple answer: There is no physical basis, it's style
Pedantic answer: Unless the light source has different colors on different sides
Complex answer: Kind of. Even a linear color fade (from reality) can turn non-linear (and therefore induce color effects) when pushed through a color grading pipeline. So if you count e.g. film emulation as a "physical effect", then yes.
As a boss-man myself, I’ve seen this “don’t let them take advantage of you” sentiment expressed in many discussions about comp and promotions, but I can’t really say I understand it. Am I just out of touch?
As I read it, the article is simply trying to help people understand what kind of work is valuable to a company and therefore what they should focus on to make themselves valuable. I presume that making yourself valuable pays dividends, including promotions! Somehow the idea of going to work and not trying your best because “you’re not getting paid … for that” just feels so cynical and divorced from how I’ve seen successful people grow and make big bucks in tech.
(And this is all a bit separate, of course, than the debate about whether staying at a company or job hopping is better for career trajectory.)
RTM was my TA at MIT for a CS/systems engineering course. It took the students until we did an assignment about the worm to realize who he was IIRC. The students thought it was very cool, but even then, as a TA covering the assignment, he didn't really talk about it.
Neat visualization. There is a street performer in my town that has them all memorized (and many international zip codes as well) and makes a fun show of it, asking people what zip code they are from and putting them on a map. Sometimes it takes him a second to recall the exact town name but he always knows instantly what city they are close to, helped no doubt by the locality of the mapping. Example video:
What no-one is pointing out is that LLMs have made almost as much progress on the first part of the request as the second! ChatGPT writes me a is_point_in_national_park function and points me to the relevant shapefile in like ~30 seconds. That's a few hundred times speedup of the "few hours" referenced in the comic.
There has been some movement lately, though. I'm not sure who exactly to thank, but "the community" created a new unofficial resource for getting going with FoundationDB: https://foundationdb.vercel.app/7.3/