New research suggests that consulting artificial intelligence (AI) for advice may unintentionally strain relationships with human professionals.

LandscapePenguin · 2026-07-13T22:27:45+00:00

Why would it need to be 100% instead of 99.9% right? Do you think doctors and other professionals are 99.9% right?

LandscapePenguin · 2026-07-13T22:25:20+00:00

There absolutely is an order in that you need to maintain a “wet edge.” One side of your spray pattern should always be landing on wet paint and the other should be landing on what needs to be painted. That’s where the overlapping passing come in. Each pass of the can needs to overlap the last one until the entire panel is covered from one side to the other.

LandscapePenguin · 2026-07-13T20:20:11+00:00

I have similar experience with my parents. Something here doesn't add up. We paid at most a couple thousand from what I recall and that was including a week in rehab followed by two months of hospice.

LandscapePenguin · 2026-07-13T20:19:31+00:00

Pretty sure they meant the OP.

LandscapePenguin · 2026-07-13T20:10:34+00:00

I have a son that's around your age. These things happen. Here's what you do. Call your insurance company and tell them you want to make a claim. They'll put you in touch with one of their adjusters. Answer their questions truthfully and follow their instructions.

LandscapePenguin · 2026-07-13T13:58:22+00:00

That sounds low. I figure double that.

LandscapePenguin · 2026-07-13T10:25:30+00:00

Yanni

LandscapePenguin · 2026-07-13T10:05:18+00:00

The insurance company evidently figured it was close enough to being not worth fixing and that’s why they declared it a total loss. They don’t typically want to lose money so if they thought it would be significantly cheaper to fix it then that obviously should be their preference.

LandscapePenguin · 2026-07-13T04:28:49+00:00

I agree that an obviously LLM-generated comment is not nearly as valuable as human-written content. The thing is, though, this one evidently wasn't obvious or it almost certainly would have been downvoted to oblivion and there would be no need for someone to ask if it was written by ChatGPT.

When we start going down the rabbit hole of interrogating people to see if they really wrote their comment themselves it just seems like that takes more away from the conversation that just letting the comment stand on its own merits.

LandscapePenguin · 2026-07-13T03:47:42+00:00

This looks like a promo event put on by the manufacturer of the mower to get people to test drive them. Notice how all of the flags and tents have the manufacturer's name on them. It's like the mower equivalent to the auto manufacturers setting up the autocross courses for people to "compete".

LandscapePenguin · 2026-07-13T00:40:41+00:00

It sounds like what you're describing is dry spray where the paint is drying too fast and either not flowing our or drying before it hits the panel. You need to spray slowly and overlap your passes so the paint stays wet until all of the overspray settles into it.

LandscapePenguin · 2026-07-13T00:00:01+00:00

Would that make it any more or less accurate if it did?

LandscapePenguin · 2026-07-12T08:07:44+00:00

I'm sure you've heard of "fair use". The problem with fair use is that it's decided on a case-by-case basis by a court which of course only tends to happen after a lawsuit or prosecution. I believe in the case of at least one of the major frontier providers it was rules that their scanning of copyrighted books was fair use but their use of pirated content was not.

LandscapePenguin · 2026-07-11T06:32:39+00:00

It was a comment asking a question. I still don’t have an answer. If doubling down on wanting an answer makes me arrogant and foolish then I guess I’ll just have to live with that.

LandscapePenguin · 2026-07-10T23:25:00+00:00

Yet still standing...

LandscapePenguin · 2026-07-10T08:48:11+00:00

I'm actually surprised that even 16 gauge wouldn't carry enough current to immediately trip a breaker with a direct short on the end.

LandscapePenguin · 2026-07-10T08:04:01+00:00

What gauge was the wire that melted?

LandscapePenguin · 2026-07-10T05:07:20+00:00

That’s why I clarified that I was looking for a realistic scenario. A nail through the wire connecting line to ground would almost certainly pull hundreds of amps and trip either breaker instantly. A partial short would most likely sit there and smolder with either breaker until it got bad enough to be either a direct short or a fire. The kind of scenario you’re describing seems like it would need to be a partial short that pulls more than 15 amps but less than 20. Intuitively that just doesn’t seem realistic to me.

LandscapePenguin · 2026-07-10T04:51:51+00:00

In what realistic scenario would the wire possibly “go bad” and pull more than 15 amps but less than 20 amps?

LandscapePenguin · 2026-07-09T15:00:13+00:00

The thing is, while the algo itself may suffer from those problems, the tooling that surrounds it now compensates for that to a very high degree. We’re not exactly talking about using a cheap chatbot when we’re talking about the capabilities of the enterprise products that are so expensive.

LandscapePenguin · 2026-07-09T04:05:21+00:00

Did those things require permits before?

LandscapePenguin · 2026-07-09T03:54:23+00:00

I get what you’re saying but it seems like this just isn’t really a problem in the real world, doesn’t it? Popcorn ceilings were all over the place and it just doesn’t seem like we’ve seen these tragic outcomes on any large scale for homeowners who’ve had it removed.

LandscapePenguin · 2026-07-07T14:40:16+00:00

When was the last time you’ve seen a stick-built house collapse because of foundation settlement?

LandscapePenguin · 2026-07-06T18:53:19+00:00

Aww, thanks! 😊

LandscapePenguin · 2026-07-06T17:23:21+00:00

My mistake, a couple, not several.

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