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Context: Baal Hamon was Carthage's chief deity. He was associated with agriculture. They were known to sacrifice children to him to improve harvests.

Context: Pyrrhus, the Greek king of Epirus invaded the Italian peninsula in 280 BC. The campaign lasted five years, with Pyrrhus being victorious in several battles against Rome. However, each victory also resulted in casualties on his end as well.

After the second battle of the war, Pyrrhus is recorded to have said, "If we are victorious in one more battle with the Romans, we shall be utterly ruined." He still went on to defeat Romans several more times despite heavy losses.

This is how the term "Pyrrhic victory" came to be. Meaning a battle where the victor wins but incurs such significant losses that it's as good as a defeat.

Context: Vasiliy Arkhipov was a staff officer on a Russian submarine during the Cuban Missile Crisis. After several days of no communication from Moscow, the submarine's three senior officers voted to launch a nuclear torpedo at American ships, assuming that war had already begun and Moscow had fallen. Vasiliy voted against it and since they could not form a unanimous vote the torpedo was not launched. It's widely speculated that if the torpedo were to be launched, thermonuclear war was extremely likely to follow.

Context: After Napoleon's defeat, the major European powers gathered at the Congress of Vienna to discuss the fate of France and other matters. Tsar Alexander I personally represented Russia and proved difficult to negotiate with on several occasions due to his unpredictable and stubborn nature. Austrian Foreign Minister Klemens Von Metternich famously called him "The biggest baby on earth".

Marcus Vispanius Agrippa was Octavian's friend and right hand man. He was instrumental in helping Octavian become the Roman Emperor Augustus. Octavian himself was physically pretty weak and thus entrusted Agrippa with command to fight in his stead. He fought in several battles for him, including the Battle of Actium where Marc Antony and Cleopatra were defeated. After Augustus' ascension, he took a political career and was responsible for several buildings in Rome, including the Pantheon.

My job role is a Technical Lead. When researching some cloud technologies for adoption I came across the Cloud Native Computing Foundation's Landscape web page which lists all cloud technologies that come under their umbrella.

The sheer number and variety of them made me realise that perhaps players of games like Magic The Gathering or Dota would probably feel right at home when designing cloud applications since the job involves identifying apps that synergize with each other and min-maxing their costs.

So I was curious if there were more such examples where gaming skill could translate well to real life jobs?

The film depicts events around the Australian Light Horse regiment in WW1 and specifically the Battle of Beersheba in 1917.

I have been working in the IT industry for the last 13 years and I was diagnosed with ADHD around two years back.

As part of my job, I have to look at a lot of code. It used to be that I used to write a lot of it, but recently since getting promoted, my work now revolves mostly around reviewing the code others wrote or sometimes enhancing someone else's code.

The problem comes when I come across some extremely convoluted legacy code. For example, like a function hierarchy with 10+ levels of function calls across several hundreds of lines. This causes me some problems understanding what's going on because it's nearly impossible for me to follow every branch to understand which part of the code needs fixing. After a while traversing the function calls I often forget how I got there and have to retrace my steps (I use debug breakpoints but it doesn't help much). I also tend to get distracted with ideas of how to re-implement the whole thing with best practices rather than focus and work on delivering the fix that I am expected to do. This severely hampers my turnaround time and I'm sure my supervisors are frustrated.

What baffles me, however, is that my other colleagues look like they have no problems working on this codebase. So I cannot really blame the badly written code before my supervisors.

So I just wanted to ask anyone here who has ADHD, works in IT/Software Engineering how do you cope with a situation like this? Also, does medication help here?

I used to be on Atomoxetine, but after experiencing a nasty anxiety attack, I stopped about a month ago. Not that I observed any major improvements while I was on it.

PS: Apologies if the context does not make sense to any of you non-IT folks. I can clarify if you ask.

Context: Around the 1920s, German architect Herman Sörgel came up with an idea to drain water from the Mediterranean sea by building a dam across the strait of Gibraltar, among other places. The goal was to reduce the sea level enough to claim more land from the sea and bring Europe closer to Africa so that Europe could colonize it and hedge against the growing power of the US post WW1. However, with the fall of colonialism and invention of nuclear power after WW2, the idea lost support.

Context: Towards the tail end of WW2, the Luftwaffe created a task force called the Sonderkommando Elbe to slow down the Allies' bombing. They did so by replacing the rotors on their planes with those made of steel and ramming bombers in critical locations. However, unlike the Kamikaze pilots who were expected to die, the Sonderkommando Elbe pilots were trained to bail before or after ramming their targets so that they could fly again.