fermentation (u/fermentation)

fermentation commented on Meta exposé author faces $50k fine per breach of non-disparagement agreement theguardian.com/technolog... · Posted by u/mindracer

dh2022 · 3 months ago

She could have started a blog if she was motivated by truth. But she chose the book deal. Quoting from Casino: “It’s always the dollars. Always the %$!@ dollars.”

fermentation · 3 months ago

Do you think we'd be reading the story if it were on some random blog?

Actually, WE might. But my mom wouldn't.

fermentation commented on How do I get into the game industry garry.net/posts/how-do-i-... · Posted by u/Michelangelo11

chickenzzzzu · 4 months ago

While I love Garry's Mod, I don't love this article, so I'll give my pithy advice:

1) Yes, learn to program.

2) Yes, learn 3d art.

3) Enthusiastically do those things almost every day of your life.

4) Don't follow too many tutorials, just enough to unblock you.

5) Let the debugger/screen punch you in the face. Learn to love being told when you are wrong.

6) Keep your expenses low, but probably you still need to go to a relatively good college.

7) Why? That's because a large part of our world is based on needless credentialism.

8) Build tools that people literally use. This is how you know you're ready for interviewing.

9) Grind leetcode and brain teasers and common interview gotchas for your language/domain of choice, but only an hour a day max.

That's basically what it takes to get a real and good job in the industry now. No magic bullets, just hard work and acceptance of some arbitrary BS.

fermentation · 4 months ago

Grinding leetcode and learning art seem at odds here. If you're a dev grinding leetcode, you'd likely be working in AAA where your time would be wasted making assets.

fermentation commented on Instapaper Rakuten Kobo Integration blog.instapaper.com/post/... · Posted by u/robin_reala

fermentation · 5 months ago

Between the two I honestly did not expect Instapaper surviving longer

fermentation commented on Windsurf employee #2: I was given a payout of only 1% what my shares where worth twitter.com/premqnair/sta... · Posted by u/rfurmani

fusslo · 5 months ago

my equity from 2years pre-acquisition: ~$2800. Then the CEO gave out bonuses when everyone threatened to quit. Then after his 3 month vacation to Italy, he came back driving his new Ferrari.

My equity from 4 years ( employee ~60, grew to over 500 ): worthless. No one is able to exercise any options. They also readjusted when the valuation came below the total raised, making the value of my vested shares ~$13k ( down from ~$200,000 ) . They 'made us whole' by giving more shares with a new 4 year vesting schedule.

Startups have found ways to fuck everyone but the investors with equity. It's confederate dollars; funny money. Maybe some people get great deals, I don't know. From my limited experience at very successful startups, the only people who made real money were those able to parley huge bonuses or base salaries.

fermentation · 5 months ago

I often see job postings here looking for "top <1% engineer talent" paying $100k and <1% equity and I wonder who is actually applying.

fermentation commented on Grok 4 Heavy Protects it's System prompt simonwillison.net/2025/Ju... · Posted by u/irthomasthomas

fermentation · 5 months ago

> You are over-indexing on an employee pushing a change to the prompt that they thought would help without asking anyone at the company for confirmation.

If it is that easy to slip fascist beliefs into critical infrastructure, then why would you want to protect against a public defense mechanism to identify this? These people clearly do not deserve the benefit of the doubt and we should recognize this before relying on these tools in any capacity.

fermentation commented on LeetCode for System Design leetsys.dev... · Posted by u/rbajp

fermentation · 6 months ago

How will this not simply encourage hiring managers to include more and more ridiculous system design questions? Prior to the popularity of leetcode, it wasn’t expected to solve a leetcode hard

fermentation commented on Jemalloc Postmortem jasone.github.io/2025/06/... · Posted by u/jasone

skeptrune · 6 months ago

Kind of nuts that he worked on Jemalloc for over a decade while having personal preference for garbage collection. I'm surprised he doesn't have more regret.

fermentation · 6 months ago

A job is a job

fermentation commented on Gemini-2.5-pro-preview-06-05 deepmind.google/models/ge... · Posted by u/jcuenod

hu3 · 7 months ago

I pay for both ChatGPT Plus and Gemini Pro.

I'm thinking of cancelling my ChatGPT subscription because I keep hitting rate limits.

Meanwhile I have yet to hit any rate limit with Gemini/AI Studio.

fermentation · 7 months ago

Is there a reason not to just use the API through openrouter or something?

fermentation commented on A South Korean grand master on the art of the perfect soy sauce theguardian.com/world/202... · Posted by u/n1b0m

jihadjihad · 7 months ago

So is it like tamari? Seems to be made from fermented soybean paste, which is how tamari is made too (byproduct of miso paste).

Most of the soy sauce you encounter in the US has wheat, while in Japan (and seemingly South Korea) there's no wheat added.

Personally once I switched to tamari I never went back to "regular" soy sauce, the flavor is quite a bit richer and more versatile in cooking, in my opinion.

fermentation · 7 months ago

Once I had to switch to tamari due to a celiac diagnosis, I found it was one of the few things that actually tastes better without gluten. I think most of the world would enjoy soy sauce made without wheat more if they tried it.

Also, most soy sauce in Japan absolutely has wheat unfortunately.