That's really not how it's done. Seriously, you're distracting by trying to push the obvious.

I can't speak for other states, but here in Texas it's done under the auspices of counseling & mental health. When you enroll your kid in the local ISD, they have all kinds of parental consent forms. Two of these forms permit the school to offer your kid counseling, and the other is a medical consent form for the school nurse. That one is loaded, because it covers everything from simple knee scrapes to full blown mental health treatment. You have to read it very carefully, and only select the items you want to permit. We chose not to allow mental health counseling for both our kids and they hounded us about it for years. Our answer was always simple "We have great healthcare, if they need evaluation & treatment, we'll get the best care. But we're not going to substitute your opinions for ours as parents". And the thing is they kept trying, particularly for our daughter.

Many of her friends parents were not as discerning. Her friends all got counseling, wither they really needed it or not. The mental health evaluation have no curricula restrictions, they'll flat out ask if you're gay/trans, fell maladjusted, questioning, etc... Then they start steering the kids to various activity clubs to help them sort themselves out. Those activity clubs are where the grooming presumably happens. Worse still, as far as I can tell the whole sequence is profoundly homophobic, in that if you are gay, they'll push you to be trans. Out of my daughters circle of roughly 9 biological female friends from grade school... We have 1 trans-boy that committed suicide at the end of 8th grade, 1 non-binary who went so crazy her(?) parents moved her to a very rural county where she was completely ostracized by the religious wingnuts, 5 lesbians, and exactly two straight girls, one of which is my daughter. But the statistics alone are just completely at odds with the old 3 - 5% LGB numbers of even 20 years ago.

Honestly I don't know what else to make of it. I'm a Californian, I'm quite comfortable around the LGB community from the SF Bay area, but the T's seem to be predatory. I'm watching this go on right underneath most parents noses, in a very red state...

You're confusing the task with the mechanism. Classic autoconplete uses statistical methods, often using some variant of a Bayesian algorithm. The task is to predict the next word, the method is statistics.

But if I asked *you* to predict the next word in a sentence, you would not be using a simple statistical method. Neither is the AI. It doesn't have the breadth of multi domain training data that your neutral network has, so it doesn't really think like a human does, but the way it functions is much closer to your brain than it is to a classical autoconplete.

It's hard to stress enough how profound that difference is.

Feels a little bit like moving away from legacy environments and starting fresh with [ insert more modern, secure, pattern-focused paradigm/language ] is a somehow more accurate summary to me.

Citation needed, and SI units.

And just admit it... You got played and let your bias trip you. :D

Gen X sarcasm is just lost on the kids these days.

And yea 1343! That's like mid-October 1997?

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Phew....I was starting to wonder if I was the one that had misread it cause everyone seemed to be taking it seriously.

Also...1343!? Holy shit!

I've pondered what I'd do if I won a monster jackpot. I concluded it was just soul crushing money, and I'd leave the winning ticket in a church offering plate.

Still waiting for God to test me...

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Ahhh.... 2005... The StorageTek acquisition should have worked out much better than it did. The problem was Sun was casting about for a more rounded revenue stream. The bottom had fallen out of workstations, and servers we're getting commoditized, and they were competing with "free" in the software division where I was. They were dabbling in early Cloud computing ala Sun Grid, which may have been the reason for the extra address allocations. Behind the scenes McNealy was fighting for his job, ultimately getting ousted in 2006. The board replaced him with the ponytailed boy wonder and the 2008 crash finished things. The Dark Load of Lanai moved in and sacked the place while he was between his fourth and fifth divorces.

I actually had an office next to ponytail for a couple months in '97 after the Lighthouse acquisition. Completely antisocial. You couldn't even say "good morning" to him in the hallway without getting a confused look on his face as the only response.

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I can't be bothered, so hopefully one or more of y'all will take it upon yourselves.

A 737MAX8 burns about 750 gal/hr, and seats roughly 175. So the same trip to visit my parents works out to 4.5 hours x 750 = 3,375 gallons of Jet-A, divided by 175 people, which comes up just shy of 20 gallons per person. Jet-A is running about $9.30/gal today, so my share would be $186. My truck seats four, so $186 x 4 = $744 then add in airline salary & profits which vary wildly depending on schedule and purchase options. This is before I add $400 in checked bags, and $250+/night in hotel rooms once I'm there. Add a rental car, and extra insurance... It gets quite costly.

My truck does the same trip for 154 gallons of diesel fuel, which is going for $3.12/gal here in the Austin Metro, so $480 until I buy fuel in occupied territory of Commifornia, where it jumps to nearly $6/gallon. Which is why I have a huge auxiliary fuel tank and top up in Arizona. RV pads rent for $50 - 75/night, I have permanent free parking at my parents ranch, and can bring my spare house with me with Starlink and all the creature comforts like my own bed, etc... So as you can see the cost structure is appealing, but it costs fully 5 days in time vs 1 day for flying.

I did mention I do use the RV for work. I don't always know where the destination will be. It's job dependent. But as for visiting my parents... Yes, I used to. The state is a complete corrupt shithole, run by power mad evil clowns. Just registering my F-250 out there costs $900 per year vs. $82 where I live. They'd tax my income at 13.9%, and that washes thru the economy like spoiled milk (Milk $6 gal out there vs. under $3 here...), and don't get me started on the schools & housing costs...

Other options: busybody, nanny, scold, Karen?

I own a Ford F-250, diesel, crew cab. My primary use is to tow my RV trailer, which weighs upwards of 12k lbs. (5600+ Kg). I use this RV roughly 7 weeks of the year, 4 weeks of which this year are actual business trips, and are fully tax deductible. Don't bother commenting on my needs or use case, there's a work reason. The truck has a 6.7L engine which produces 440hp (328Kw) & something around 975 ft/Lbs (~1300 nM?) of torque. When I'm not using the RV, It sits idle in my driveway at a ratio of something like 15:1. I drive it to keep the batteries charged, and the tires round. It's not getting used as a daily/commuter. I have a nice hybrid for that, and it gets 48 mpg...

My trailer is basically a "brick" aerodynamically. I've estimated it takes roughly 175 hp (131kW) to push the air out of the way to maintain 65mph interstate speeds. Which should point out the problem with electric trucks in general. The 131kW means I need 131 kWh battery to run for 1 hour. Oddly enough, that's the size of the extended range pack in the F-150 Lightning. I did some back of napkin math when the F-150 Lightning came out, and guesstimated that I'd be able to move with a safety margin, roughly 75 miles per day towing my RV. That translates to a 25 day trip to get to my elderly parents on the west US coast. A trip I can currently do in 2-1/2 days using diesel.

That's why electric pickup trucks are failing. They only work for the "urban cowboy" types that drive them for show/comfort/want. Those with actual work to do, they're simply a non-starter.

I have been watching Edison Motors up in Canada. That's the ticket for trucks. Genset & large battery with regen braking.

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AWS aside, as they now seem to have the equivalent of 8 Class A's... That's gotta be a Telco. Not even Sun+Oracle ended up with 5 class A's. As least I don't think they did... Sun was working on their own cloud there at the end, so I'll have to hedge my bet here. I was amused to find Oracle using Sun's 129.146.x.x block from the MPK campus for OCI VM's a couple years back.

But you are right... I've often stated that if we knew back in the early 90's that 4+ billion people would be walking around with a always connected Sun Workstation equivalent on their hip on in their purse, we'd have made some different engineering choices.

I have a dual stack IPv4/IPv6 ISP these days that issues a single IPv4 (dynamic but hasn't changed in 8+ years), and a /64. My problem with their IPv6 is the RA & addressing are not under my control. They assume I have no need for an static IPv6 address or subnetting inside my network. Every time I've poked at it, and tried to subnet I end up in RA hell. It's kind of a waste to have a /64 to myself and no way to make use of it.

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I'm not sure I understand what you're getting at because the weakest link across every OS is the meatbag running the keyboard. This article talks specifically about the delivery mechanism for this involving a dumbass user copy a base64 encoded curl command or some similarly stupid crap and running it. If you give me root because you believe this "security check" is necessary and blindly click OK, then I'm not sure which OS is going to be able to help you out there.

More name calling...

Complete sidestep, no refutation of statistics at all. Check. Call objectioner a name. Check.

All that sweet Humboldt green bud around you, and you choose violence. Go have another bong hit. You seem to need it.