u/Dx_Ur

I don't know if the population is already hyper aware of this, but we are in a miserable situation, hirak 2019 was not enough, in fact Bouteflika period was way better despite the oil prices sky rocket since then, why our country is getting raped and the population is silence. And they keep faking all data fed to the international organizations. Even the latest election turnout is fake because most of the young people are not registered at all and if they register them automatically the turnout will become a single digit. And the dangerous part is that the population is disconnected and everyone is trying to run with their skin.

Please wake up

I have been trying to calculate a way to buy a car over the past months. I'm employed and have a nice salary by local standards but none of my calculations resolve how to buy a car. It's financially impossible to fund this project.

Is there any exit loophole or should I get humiliated everyday and feel unsafe at those public transit?

I'm currently a lead systems engineer at a startup in Algeria. I worked here for 2 years as my first job and got promoted to a lead role 6 months ago.

We do video processing, libav, streaming, ai inference (OV, TRT, etc) and our stack is mainly rust, c/c++ (at least the part concerning me), well while this company is doing interesting stuff like distributed compute on the edge, NVR appliances and security systems with high stakes partners for the last months the work become boring and feels repetitive even it's not, but the cycle of going to the office picking a ticket, work, etc become colorless and there is such feedback loop despite the technical challenges, after all they are just tickets waiting for someone to resolve.

Being located in Algeria means my salary is capped by the local standards which in my case is high compared with average engineer salary but doesn't resemble 8% of what the average global market pays and will not buy you a car in 10 years of savings let alone a house.

I'm seeking advice regarding my career.

I'm currently a lead systems engineer at a startup in Algeria. I worked here for 2 years as my first job and got promoted to a lead role 6 months ago.

We do video processing, libav, streaming, ai inference (OV, TRT, etc) and our stack is mainly rust, c/c++ (at least the part concerning me), well while this company is doing interesting stuff like distributed compute on the edge, NVR appliances and security systems with high stakes partners for the last months the work become boring and feels repetitive even it's not but the cycle of going to the office picking a ticket, work, etc become colorless and there is such feedback loop despite the technical challenges after all they are just tickets waiting for someone to resolve.

Being located in Algeria means my salary is capped by the local standards which in my case is high compared with average engineer salary but doesn't resemble 8% of what the average global market pays and will not buy you a car in 10 years of savings let alone a house.

I'm seeking advice regarding my career.

Today I went to receive my sheep as the platform stated, to our surprise the selling people just closed and said we are tired, the selling point owner was yelling at the higher ups and everyone left hopelessly the evening of Arafat, well it was already Maghreb the time we left all sharing the same idea "fucking Algeria".

It's our mistake we believed it.

Eidkom Mubarak anyway!

So I'm doing my research about the cost of living in Algeria and got confused feels like the math doesn't work!

Those numbers I gathered from the real life of some algerian from different places, cities to rural areas.

The average monthly salary in Algeria currently ranges between 45,000 DA and 60,000 DA, with a working average of approximately 52,500 DA. While jobs in the private sector may have higher salaries up to 200k+ DA with an average of 70,000 DA for engineers. The minimum wage is 24,000DA which represent a large chunk of earners in Algeria.

Housing (Rent):

The cost for an F3 apartment ranges from 20,000 DA to 80,000 DA.

The median cost is 32,000 DA.

Utilities:

Combined costs for electricity, gas, and water average between 8,000 DA and 12,000 DA per quarter (every 3 months).

This averages to roughly 3,300 DA per month.

Connectivity:

A combined home internet and mobile phone plan averages 4,000 DA per month.

Transportation:

A daily commute for a worker costs between 300 DA and 500 DA. Monthly, this totals approximately 10,000 DA.

Meat (Red): 3,000 DA per kg.

Chicken: 800 DA per kg.

Eggs: 25 DA per unit.

Dining Out: A standard restaurant meal starts at 1,500 DA. Confectionery: A basic edible chocolate bar costs 150 DA, while an average quality bar is 220 DA.

Consumer Goods and Electronics Electronics and apparel are heavily influenced by the parallel market exchange rate (approximately 260 DA per 1 USD).

Clothing: A decent quality T-shirt averages 4,000 DA; a decent pair of shoes costs approximately 8,000 DA.

Mobile Phones: A mid-range "decent" phone costs around 80,000 DA. Luxury models (latest iPhone) exceed 220,000 DA.

Apartments: Prices range from 15M DA to 80M DA.

Houses: Prices range from 60M DA to over 500M+ DA.

First of all, we have a beautiful country, beautiful than you think, but how we build home, how we live, how we organize stuff and our life expense choices all feels like either a really bad a clone or randomness and noise.

AADL

The AADL agency promises to develop and upgrade housing but what we see is only ugly cubic pieces of concrete, Algeria have a great land, why we live vertically, USA have this american dream with their suburbs, thy have their issues but at least they look good, we cant copy them because of culture and yah suburbs cause loneliness but I dont think living on those cubs is not better either, privet houses except some dont look better than a random house except they have papers, rebars everywhere, whats that, if we cant afford to buy them where are those graduates to make it more affordable and consume less time to build?

Economics

I don't know if people are aware but the world is playing the keynesian game on economics. Ok, that's not our problem but the game are created by people who understand the system and put the game to make people innovate, spend and its part of a bigger system then where we are, playing the game of economics without knowing the rules, even if we do know them we just throw our die and hope, USA is printing money just to play the game and let value circulate through loans and investments, then were we are money are freezed, little to now real circulation etc. Economic shall grow through individuals and investors aware of this and play the game right.

Industry

Speaking on this topic is hard because the case of Algeria is special but still we have no industry despite we are resource rich, this have many reasons but its not acceptable on the modern world.

Leadership

I don't want to go to jail because, well, there is no think such freedom here but I think people do know whats happening, and have their opinions also like what happened on the Hirak 2019, people tried to take the system down but this is stupidity dressed on that movement. shutting down a system cant happen and will not happen and what we saw is only the system restructuring itself to shut people down not the other way around.

Anyway despite this my grandfathers fought to get this land, He was importing weapon for the ALN and get caught and tortured in front of his son by France then they hanged him on a bridge, we cant just relocate to another country and leave our land.

Edit: I'd like to host a matrix server for us to discuss so we are safe at least btw matrix.org is not reliable in Algeria (feels like their ip pool is banned), I think that's the best way to communicate on this era full E2E if you lost the device your conversation are gone.

I just want to know, where are those better libraries?

I have 5 years of c++ experience, my initial job was straight forward: the codebase already existed, I don't have much responsibility etc, then my second job was terrifying Asio? I think it shall be named AssIo, corotines? If multi-threaded is a footgun then coroutines are a missile, performance? Do I have the whole day optimizing aliasing and tuning for a certain tool chain. That said as the last try I just want to ask here on Reddit the worst place to get advice.

Was c++ a wrong choice for a high load backend (quic, capnp, libav, postgres)?

I decided to use nix as the main build tool for a project inside my company. The project is a monolithic repo containing multiple services, apps, etc.

I wonder the best way to organize the nix files: Should I put them close to the service or centralized on a nix/ directory?