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Nothing wrong with knowing your worth, but expecting 1.5m monthly for a remote, part-time role primarily involving social media posts is quite detached from reality. Not every salary expectation reflects self worth

High-level languages trade raw CPU performance for developer speed. That trade-off is worth it 99% percent of the time.

I think most Nigerians overestimate themselves and their skillset. No thanks to social media, people go for interviews with unrealistic salary figures because “I am pricing my worth” China, India, Philippines and Kenya are becoming global commercial powerhouses because they are leveraging on their low currency to dollar disparity to provide cheaper labour for high currency rate countries in the west. Thereby providing jobs for their people. But Nigerians want to be paid same wage someone in UK, Europe or the Americas earn simply because “I know my worth” My Chinese Partner was telling me yesterday there are places in China with average monthly pay of less than $250. India is less than $65. Same with Philipines and Kenya. Nigeria has a minimum wage of 70,000 Naira which is around $50, international and local companies will price your skillset in your local currency starting from your minimum wage. Many Nigerians are financially delusional for a people that is the poverty capital of the world with the highest out of school children and the most terrorised country in the world. Thats how I interviewed a young lady for a part time admin role and she said her salary expectation is 1.5 million naira. For Admin ?? In Nigeria? For same amount I can get a part time admin here in the UK 25 hours a week.m, and they would pray for me daily cos the job market now in UK is horrible. No jobs. But a remote worker in Nigeria wants 1.5 million Naira to do a part time admin work. Everyone wants to rich overnight. You guys are not serious

I’ll absolutely fail any coding interview. Always have. But give me a problem and a model, not even a good one, and I’ll solve it. Pity companies haven’t caught up. The good news is, most of the market will end up like this as there are simply bigger problems so solve in a software stack, and this code nonsense is just a side effect. Be real, you’re gonna pay most devs to talk to codex or Claude. How about you test them in the actual environment. But no. Let’s find the next leetcode

My agents have a written rule against em dashes, and a grep that checks for them anyway, because reading a rule and following it are separate skills for an AI engine. Same for every rule that matters in your repo: put a test or a script behind it.

My own hot take about moonshot is that you all complain too much. No parking space - it’s an event do you want everyone else to come without car so only you can park? I walked too much - it’s a big event with different stages, also a big venue what did you expect will happen?

When I first saw difference equations on my coursework, I immediately assumed differential equations. Turns out Difference Equations and Differential Equations are two different things. The former looks at discrete change while the later looks at continuous change.

If proving can't be done by local block builders, centralized block proving leads to centralized block building, centralized state serving... Then solo stakers give up and Ethereum becomes a slow Solana.

As a researcher, I like to think about what-if scenarios, so let's consider one here: what if there is no more public-key encryption? Public-key encryption is used in countless ways in our daily lives, including online shopping, banking, and protecting anything we want to keep private from the rest of the internet. What if the mathematical problems that underpin public-key encryption (factoring, discrete log, lattice problems, decoding of codes) are all easy to solve because of mathematical breakthroughs by artificial intelligence or quantum computers? What happens to internet commerce? I see two worlds: 1. We rely on trusted intermediaries to send us keys for encryption. There is no more public-key encryption, and all we have is symmetric encryption like AES. In this case, we need trusted third parties to send counterparties dedicated keys for encrypting. 2. A second possibility that I like better relies on hash-based zk-STARK systems to create digital signatures that depend only on the hardness of hash problems. In this world, you could still have payment systems and internet commerce for sending payments, but you'll need to solve the challenge of easy, direct encrypted channels between counterparties.

There is no matchmaking show but for single startup founders to find love, abi we don’t deserve love? It would be nice to date a fellow founder

fun fact: satoshi refused to use the NIST seeds probably because he was somewhat of a bunker mode retard himself, instead used the more obscure secp256k1, and most other cryptocurrencies followed this is why we can’t directly use industry standards like passkeys in blockchains, and instead we ship people purpose-built hardware wallets made by fucking amateurs, leading to routine 9 figure hacks anthropic’s discovery reveals that in retrospect his panic wasn’t necessary and we could’ve just used the standards thanks bunker mode retards! (this comment is exaggerated for comedic effect but it’s not wrong)