The Arkansas Board of Corrections approved the change, which a Department of Corrections spokesperson said takes effect on Feb. 1. Prison officials said the restriction was needed in order to tamp down on contraband being smuggled into prisons.

Sounds like you need to fire these incompetent people rather than maximizing cruelty, unless maximizing cruelty was your objective.

I wish my English teachers didn’t beat me up so hard (figuratively) as incorrect use of ‘they’ when it has a long history of usage in the singular.

If you’re concerned about detecting AI for an assignment or a competition, I suggest something that tracks changes, like a shared Google doc. It shows you how the document was written over time, which requires a lot more effort to fake.

But in general, no, you cannot reliably detect whether text was produced by AI or a human. There are some signs, but it would be difficult to prove.

EDIT: voice typing errors.

Yes, but excluding commute time as well. I typically don’t do lunch.

It could be worse for sure.

I’m a 9 to 5. Sadly, tomorrow will be mentally hard. I have to explain to two managers why I can’t write a kernel driver for a device in one week while I insist the request is not reasonable.

Defense budget? But isn’t that for war? They renamed it to the Department of War right?

We gave up with taking down the lights four years ago.

Tree has been up for four years, too.

I hate this company with a passion.

It’s not gambling for insiders.

Relevant username.

I am visiting NYC right now and this is exactly the attitude I’ve observed.

Q: Are you with the CIA?
A: not at the moment but the CIA will inevitably replace me at some point.

Checks out.

Wow, I thought this was a joke.

I want AI to do my chores not play my games.

With a positive expected value, in theory, so long as we’re able to sustain growth forever.

I think you’re just asking when people form their first coherent memories.

This is about 2 to 3 years old.

Thinner until I can shave with this thing.

They don’t need to run failure studies. That basic characterization work is mostly already done for you. Component vendors (should) publish tables of mean time between failure for the components you’re buying that can be used to get a rough estimation with just a few minutes of effort. Typically it’s indexed by temperature, like for caps, but depends on the part.

Now, does the bottom of the market actually use those tables? I can’t say for sure. I know one high power headlamp company does this for their LED drivers to balance lifetime with output, but I can’t know for sure what every business does.

The LED bulb itself is not typically the reason that these fail. There’s also complex regulation circuitry which consists of far more complex components than a single LED. Electrolytic capacitors and driver circuits can have shorter lifetimes than the actual bulb.

With that said, manufacturers know this, so they also tend to overdrive lower cost LEDs to bring the failure rates in line with the rest of the circuit. This sounds like this may be what has happened to you just based on the dimming, but without knowing exactly how they have wired it up, it’s difficult to be sure.

And that’s fantastic! That’s what technology is supposed to do IMHO - Give you more free time because of that efficiency. That’s technology making life better for humans. I’m glad that you’re experiencing that.

If they’re not hallucinating as you use them, then I’m afraid we just have different experiences. Perhaps you’re using better models or you’re using your tools more effectively than I am. In that case, I must respect that you are having a different and equally legitimate experience.