Somehow the links got borked. Likely during the copy-over from my orignial sub.

Here's the fix:

Heise article.

Video.

CorPower Website.

British Airways offers a course that is GBP130 minimum 20. I don't know if they gather requests until they get sufficient attendance or whether they want 20 people to sign up as a group. But it is available and that seems like a reasonable price.

https://www.britishairways.com...

OK, I'm picking nits.

Which is the bigger problem IMHO.

My parents built up a pretty decent collection of Horatio Alger's highly formulaic rags-to-riches "dime novels" from around 1868-1910. Perhaps AI would like to ingest many, many stories of plucky and hard-working young men who wind up making it big?

The Duesseldorf Media Harbour is special in the way that the folks there didn't just chat about exotic technologies but actually used them for mission critical stuff to very significant competitive advantages. For instance: The core of Trivagos money making machine is a sophisticated use-case of an event-sourcing Kafka setup. The Invision Callcenter Software folks right next door build their products in Elixir, an exotic modern PL with a hard emphasis on concurrency running on Erlang foundations.

Regular meetups at Sipgate just around the corner covered super clean and stable real-world n-dimensional scalability of real-time systems, the type of which you'd expect from a pioneer VOIP provider built entirely on FOSS, agile principles and running with less than 200 employees but will never see in any generic German KMU (small to medium sized business) because they simply wouldn't get it. They don't just talk big words with zero substance on agility, but actually practice it. Likewise a Dart & Flutter Application crew at Vodaphone headquarters or a small but competent crew from Solingen doing full-scale billing at Peek & Cloppenburg with a custom Scala application.

Botton line: 90%+ of people at those meetups and giving talks and presentations we're completely beyond the usual mediocre bloated and badly managed C#/Java stuff. The exemplary efficiency of the folks I met throughout the years was staggering and a real regular breath of fresh air starkly contrasting the garbage I had to regularly deal with when salvaging yet another shoddy setup cobbled together by some agency and a few badly paid WP plugin jockeys. I'd argue the quality density in that small area is even higher than SV average with considerable network and attraction effects.

> "mnemonic"

Johny who?

I wrote a lot of assembly (back in the day) for both the Z80 and the 6502. The Z80 was like a Mac truck. It had some really powerful instructions (LDIR etc) and a great register-set but the 6502 could be a lot faster on one condition -- that you had space available in page zero to exploit the indirect addressing mode that relied heavily on the first 256 bytes of RAM. The Z80 had the advantage that it had on-chip support for refreshing dynamic RAM so systems with more than 4K or so of memory were much easier and cheaper to build using a Z80 than a 6502.

If you were building and programming a system from scratch then the 6502 was the obvious choice but if you were programming a "store bought" 6502 system such as the Apple, Atari or Commodore, many of those valuable first 256bytes (page zero) were already in use by the ROM-based system software so things became a bit trickier.

Ah... happy days.

Pretty much. I live in the Duesseldorf area which has/had it's own little NRW tech-hub mini silicon-valley thing going on. 5 years ago there were multiple really good meetups happening each quarter. An active Google Developer Group, regular well attended Web Development Meetups, a DevOps Network doing the same and even some regular exotic stuff like the pure functional algebrahic development folks meeting up and discussing Scala, Haskell, Elixir and other avant-garde topics.

Companies were eager to pitch in and offer space and catering and I was out and about regularly, enjoying the food and free drinks and getting a hefty dose of nerding off with fellow devs and IT experts.

That all has since completely dried up.

Two years ago I sent out 50+ precisely targeted resumes and had a reaction quota of less than 10%, 5 actual interviews, 3 of them meh to sh1t, two interesting, one of which turned out to be a shady shoddy joint. I joined my current gig which is OK but has me earning 20k less than such a job should reasonably score. My colleagues are leaving left and right and I'm off the team end of September. The last 6 months my coding was basically 95% AI-driven. My last girlfriend has a limited contract and will be out of a job in September too. She bought a garden two years ago and is preparing to go all in on independent homesteading and growing her own veggies out in the easter German boondocks. Demographic decline is starting to show more and more clearly too all around.

I'm not sure what I'm going to do about all this.

I'm somewhat "lucky" in the sense that I live a flexible and minimalist lifestyle and that I'm technically an artist with a performing arts diploma, which is nice and fun but not really worth any significant monetary value. Inflation is palpable, even for a guy like me with some cash to spare and the excessive heatwaves and droughts aren't helping.

A friend of mine has launched multiple businesses throughout the years and is struggling once again after finally gaining some traction a few years back. His liquidity is down to zero and he's just scraping by with the German IRS breathing down his neck. We're going to scout out some derelict houses in southern Europe and see if there's anything meaningful to do and gain there. We're both quickly moving in to a semi-prepper mode. If anything meaningful shall happen on the job market for me, I likely will have to downshift my salary once again and pick some IT janitor / helpdesk type position.

Bottom line: There's a bigger shake-up moving in and I suspect there won't be any well-paying software-dev job for me on the other end of it. The bots are here and they're taking over. It's probably just that simple. That's the Age of Cyberpunk for ya, I guess.

I never got myself into the whole "masculinity" obsession, even back in the 70s and 80s.

There is and was no wider obscession with masculinity. This is what so many people - women and men - get wrong about masculinity. There is very little in masculinity - even less that with femininity - that is _objectively_ masculine. Most of what constitutes masculinity is in the eye of the beholder. There are guys who think reckless driving, drinking and soccer are "masculine". I for one don't see it.

The narrative also is that men can't express their feelings. Which is complete and utter non-sense. The vast majority of significant art and poetry is done by men. Romanticism was invented by men. We are the romantic sex trying to be rational. And a significant part of being a man is tapping into the inner flame of poetry in whatever the man does and gaining an emotional resonance and depth that is independent of the whims of hetero-dynamic relationships. Escapism is a good fallback if society around you limits everything else. Which it tends to do.

Bottom line: You did the right thing. And masculinity-wise too.

You're correctly describing a phenomenon. However, that has nothing to do with ADHD and everything to do with gyno-centric social dynamics that - by sheer evo-psych - looks for ways to exploit men. This is how cultures grow and develop. There's quite a bit of research on that (neatly sidelined by contemporary mainstream femnoise).

Bottom line: The problem you describe is a fundamental one that exists for ADHD males as it does for "regular" males. It's only that ADHD males are perhaps more sensitive to these dynamics. That's why there is a solid amount of evidence that male ADHD in particular actually is an advantage for populations, because it forces those men to leave the beaten path and explore new ground. The 'rebel' gene of ADHD is a useful vector for discovering new paths for a given population/society.

Disclaimer: ADHD candidate here.

I could write an entire set of essays on what we currently know about ADHD here but it basically boils down to this:

ADHDlers have a hightened sensitivity towards their value for people around them. So we go about our day constantly scanning for dopamine spikes or true connection. I need my medication the least when I'm in love with a cute lady (and she is with me). Given that through evolution men are more disposable than women the sense of self-worth is challenged way more often in boys and men that it is with women. Especially in a time where robots are doing more and more of the heavy lifting and masculinity is considered "toxic". Hence excessive male escapism, especially with male teens and those with perpetual creative impulses (aka ADHD types). If we didn't have this sort of escapism, fascism would've long since taken over way harder than it's doing right now.

I'm either dancing, moving around, escaping at one of my computer devices or doing some (somewhat) exotic activity thing like kitesurfing, paragliding, motorbike riding, scating, bikepacking, etc. This is SOP for an ADHD man like me.

The whole trick is not to feel guilt or toxic shame when you do escapism. You're actually doing very little damage to anybody else, it's cheap and it's a perfect fit for a society that has an abundance of stimulation just an internet connection away. Overcoming that involves actively working on your attachment style, abandonment terror and any shame-based identity that many people have. Once that happens, going out, roaming the countryside or travelling the world suddenly becomes way more interesting. Which is precisely for what the ADHD disposition brings some advantages along.

That ADHDlers are more prone to this or it's mental fallback alternative called escapism than people with a stronger frontal lobe should be obvious.

That's why my code is better that ever but I get to close up shop at 5 in the afternoon. For me 10x _is_ realized. For my company it's closer to 5x. Which is no problem for me because it's actually my private AI metasubscription taking care of all this.

This is my initial point: I get to take it easy because at least half of AIs productivity gains benefit me directly. As of know I'm basically being paid to tell robots what to do. And that's pretty much the definition of a post-scarcity utopia if you ask me.

If Google provides 100x value to users why wouldn't this translate to a measurable increase in labor productivity?

Because those productivity gains are getting absorbed by our culture. That is my entire point.

A bushmans productivity in scavenging does not show up in the stock market because he doesn't even know (or care) what a stock market is. Likewise that you and I can read and write and do math and know enough about germ and pathogen theory to wash our hands with soap and eat with cutlery does not show up on the stock market either. It's basically a given that we know these things in our civilisation.

The exact same thing is happening with AI. AI is so universal, I'd go so far as to say that tracking it's value gain in some stock market borders on the silly. Especially if you expect it to bring the gains we all hope for. If AI puts me out of a job, that's tough luck for me but for humanity it's a huge plus.

That's why I'm going to replace my coding work with doing Yoga, exercising, doing Art, travelling and eating healthy. That's by and large the best retirement plan for a Senior Software dev being made obsolete in my position.