No, it's more likely that girls and women learned to mask symptoms early for survival reasons.

If you look at hunter-gatherer societies, ADHD is paramount to survival because it avoids over-harvesting. Too little ADHD produces cultures prone to driving plants and/or animals extinct. ADHD is a critical stop-gap that prevents this. Studies show ADHD gatherers will not only collect more, they will do so in ways that cause far less damage, resulting in a far better second harvest and far better sustainability.

Into more modern times, ADHD was a valuable survival trait. Too little and you became vulnerable to diseases, pests, crop blight, etc. If you wanted a stable population, right the way through to the industrial era, you needed a high level of ADHD in the population.

It is only when neurotypical bosses decided that they had to micromanage everything and decided who lived and who died on the streets that you see ADHD symptoms suddenly and massively suppressed. But masking changes nothing. The levels will still be the same, they're just hidden.

It isn't. The under-diagnosis of girls is astronomical.

You are assuming ADHD is a new thing. No, it isn't. It is a survival thing. ADHD was critical in a very large percentage of the population for the bulk of the last 350,000 years. Without it, humanity would have gone extinct. It's merely not appropriate in a world in which neurotypicals make neurodiverse solutions a "bad thing".

They might drop by a little, but honestly not by much. Boys are mildly overdiagnosed for the reasons you give (but few places still medicate), girls are however massively underdiagnosed.

I never got myself into the whole "masculinity" obsession, even back in the 70s and 80s. The result of this was a discovery that computers launched me head-first through far fewer windows and pelted me with far fewer rocks. So, yeah, I was definitely seen as disposable though my childhood and teen years by pretty much everyone. (It's one reason anyone looking back at those as "golden years" is unlikely to win me over.)

Escapism is pretty much all I had at the time, and these days remains pretty much all I have - reality has grown far worse over the years and knowledge by the neurotypicals has not come with empathy but ammunition. There is guilt and shame in playing with creative writing or inventing, and the demons have got really bad on occasion, but you're right, it's not doing anyone any harm.

Both. It's best thought of as a positive feedback loop.

I'm glad to see that we have moved past the era of 'bugs' or 'defects' and are now anthropomorphizing undesired behavior as 'honest mistakes'. Truly progress is glorious.

We actually need this in the UK because we donâ(TM)t have any other means of recognising who is allowed to work and who is not. This is why so many migrants are attracted to the UK from safe countries like France.

The irony is that the people involved in running this program are the same people who have made the UK digital passport renewal process much easier, and therefore the chance is that it would be a digital white elephant are pretty minimal.

Weâ(TM)ve got the need. Weâ(TM)ve got the workforce with the relevant experience, we should just get on with it. It doesnâ(TM)t need a whole load of grandstanding from a wannabe magic grandpa.

Add to it the emissions regulations making it harder to provide manual gearboxes and it's likely that the stepped automatics also will suffer the same fate.

The algorithm seems to have been failing to scale correctly, yes. On closer inspection, it looks like the billing software treated the bytes used as K used.

Did AWS use Grok to generate the billing sheets or the code for handling billing?

I'm serious. The errors reported look suspiciously like AI hallucinations or a signed integer being treated as unsigned.

I'm of the stance that AI could be good to check my code and test it, then let me decide what to do.

I need to understand what I have in my code to trust it to work and be secure so an AI generated snippet might be working well but be hard to understand. Such code can be very hard to maintain.

Obviously billing errors are bad; but it seems like ones that off by an egregious number of powers of ten should concern us much less than ones that are small enough to be within the realm of plausible; those are the ones that you'll need to fight over and quite possibly not even win if you are an edge case or dealing with one of the services/configurations where you don't necessarily have any independent measure of usage. You can probably tell that you didn't use a VM more than 720 hours in the last 30 days; but are you actually counting GET requests in some way that is both authoritative and cheaper than just paying the $0.0004/thousand rather than hoping that Amazon will charge you correctly? For some very buttoned up buckets that only your other stuff accesses, quite possibly you can infer from those systems; but if it's something public facing and it might be a billing error or maybe you just got crawled hard last month?

I remember guys who couldn't handle school but getting an educational sex bot probably was the ONLY thing that could have taught them! Seriously, we should have prescriptions for these bots! You ever see an oversexed teenager with perfect grades? (if you think so, then you're misinterpreting over-sexed.)

I'm serious; some kids are simply not ready -- some need major therapy full time not education. If you want a good generic solution with massive success... you take all 12 year old children and replace their year of education with pure therapy work. The vast majority of problems that have the biggest impacts on the most people come from the puberty transition age. Hell, targeted hormone therapy around those years could level off a lot of issues around that span of time as well as align the timing. We do all this sort of biologically management with animals already. Ok, there I blew your minds with some ideas to ponder... though you probably just want to keep thinking about the teacher blow-bots.