Dremakuzi

Awoist, Software engineer, Fx trader, Barcelona fan.

[Appie Culé @appiecule]

I’m going to take my time with this one. If you’re busy, save this post and read it later. If you’re a night owl like me, this is a good late-night read.

Do you know the worst thing about Cristiano Ronaldo?

It’s that he set the standards for what defines a legend… and in the end, he couldn’t even live up to the standards he created himself.

After winning Euro 2016, Ronaldo said:

“You can’t become a legend until you win a trophy with your national team.”

It was an obvious dig at Messi.

Argentina had just lost the 2014 World Cup final to Germany, and Messi was going through the toughest period of his international career. Those words only added fuel to the fire.

Where was the respect for a rival, Ronaldo?

The surprising part was that social media completely embraced that narrative. Messi was labeled a bottler, while Ronaldo was declared the winner of the rivalry—at least in the media, not on the pitch.

Then Messi retired from international football, came back, won the Copa América, and suddenly they were level in major international trophies.

What happened next?

Ronaldo fans started saying that one Euro is worth more than a hundred Copa Américas, claiming there was no competition in South America. Not true—but that became the excuse.

Then Messi went on to win the World Cup.

This time, the excuses changed again.

They claimed FIFA had fixed the tournament for Messi. That the World Cup was scripted in his favor. They simply didn’t know what else to say.

Then Ronaldo himself came out with one of the strangest quotes imaginable:

“A legend’s career can’t be defined by just seven games.”

At first glance, it sounds reasonable.

But beneath it was another attempt to diminish what Messi had achieved.

Before the World Cup, they insisted it would be Ronaldo’s tournament. On paper, Portugal had a fantastic squad. If the manager couldn’t get the best out of them, that’s Portugal’s problem—not Ronaldo’s.

Yet that same Portugal squad wasn’t any weaker than the Argentina team Messi led to the 2014 World Cup final—the same team people mocked Messi for not carrying to the title.

Just a couple of days ago, Ronaldo said:

“The World Cup doesn’t define my career, whether I win it or not.”

A statement that directly contradicts what he had said years earlier, when he admitted that winning the World Cup would make him feel completely fulfilled.

Now you’re 41 years old, Cristiano.

By your own standards:

* You have 5 Ballon d’Ors, not 8.
* You have one European Championship, not two Copa América titles.
* You never won the World Cup.
* You have four European Golden Shoes, while Messi has six—even though you’re an out-and-out striker.

So what now?

Will you keep playing until the next World Cup and become the first player to appear in one at 45, hoping to finally win it?

If we judged you by the standards you created, you wouldn’t qualify as a legend.

Of course, nobody actually judges you that way. Everyone still recognizes you as one of football’s greatest legends.

The real mistake was comparing Ronaldo to Messi in the first place.

That rivalry was exaggerated from the beginning by the media and figures like José Mourinho.

Messi conquered every major trophy available to him, shattered records that once seemed untouchable, and at 39 years old he’s still competing with Kylian Mbappé and Erling Haaland—the stars of the next generation—for the Golden Boot. And honestly, he could still win it.

What made Messi beloved by so many fans is that he never tried to diminish Ronaldo’s achievements.

Ronaldo, on the other hand, repeatedly made comments that many interpreted as attempts to downplay his greatest rival’s accomplishments—and that’s never an admirable trait.

Cristiano helped create a generation that thinks belittling other people’s achievements while constantly glorifying your own is a way to establish dominance.

Good bye. Ronaldo.

[Dremakuzi @dakol2]

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[Dremakuzi @dakol2]

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[Lawdan Bazargan @LawdanBazargan]

Every time I see this picture of Ali Larijani, I get angry.
In the 1980s, when I was a teenager living in Iran, my eyes were very sensitive and my doctor told me to wear sunglasses. But the morality police would stop me in the street, because according to them, my sunglasses were “provoking men.” I had to carry a doctor’s note in my wallet just to justify something as basic as protecting my eyes.

That was the reality for us.

And now, the same system that policed girls for wearing sunglasses proudly promotes figures like Ali Larijani wearing American Ray-Ban glasses.

This is the hypocrisy of the Islamic Republic: control and humiliation for ordinary people, freedom and privilege for those in power.

It’s not just hypocrisy. It’s a system built on double standards and contempt for its own people.

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[Saber.eth | Blockchain Developer⚡ @Sabercodes123]

There are 5 stages of Artificial Intelligence and most people are still stuck at stage 1.

> LLMs – you ask, it answers. basic AI usage.

> Agentic AI – “go do this for me.” multiple agents executing tasks in parallel.

> AGI – matches human cognitive ability. performs human tasks with no supervision.

> SI – doesn’t need humans at all. may actively replace them.

We just crossed into stage 2.
That’s why everything feels like it’s accelerating.
And yes it only gets weirder from here.

[Adit_Yah ☄️ @Adidotdev]

Interviewer:

If HTTPS is encrypted…
how does your network still know which site you opened ?

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[Dremakuzi @dakol2]

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[Tansu Yegen @TansuYegen]

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[Cap-EO 👨🏾‍💻 @EOEboh]

Interview Question: "Design a function that finds duplicate emails in our user database."

🔴 Candidate A:
"Sure, I'll use a hash map"
**starts writing code immediately**

🟢 Candidate B:
"Great question. Before I start, can I clarify a few things?"

Interviewer: "Of course"

Candidate B: "First, how large is the dataset? Are we talking thousands or millions of users?"

Interviewer: "About 50 million"

Candidate B: "Got it. Should I consider emails case-insensitive? Like, is '[email protected]' the same as '[email protected]'?"

Interviewer: "Yes, treat them as the same"

Candidate B: "Perfect. And what should I return...just the duplicate emails, or do you need user IDs or counts?"

Interviewer: "Just the list of duplicate email addresses."

Candidate B: "One last thing.....are we working with the entire dataset in memory, or should I consider a database query approach?"

Interviewer: "Assume it's a SQL database"

Candidate B: "Excellent. So given the scale, I'd actually recommend a SQL query rather than loading everything into memory..."

**proceeds to design the right solution for the actual problem**

The lesson here: interviewers aren't just evaluating your code. They are evaluating how you'd work with their team. Someone who asks good questions and communicates clearly is often more valuable than someone who codes fast but builds the wrong thing.

[Dremakuzi @dakol2]

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For daily expenses:
Use Opay or Moniepoint

For interest savings:
Use Piggyvest or FairMoney

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For stocks:
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For crypto:
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For USD investment:
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[Mohammed Tawakkal Ahmed @Tawakkalah13_10]

Ever wondered what happens when you press the power button?