Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

This is the one place where ChatGPT has seemed useful to me, by the way. When I try and use it for anything Python-related, it's worse than useless because I know Python stuff *way* better than ChatGPT, and it's faster for me to just do it myself anyway.

When I'm trying to get a handle on super basic questions, ChatGPT seems to be kind of OK at explaining things in such a way as to unblock me.

Not that I think that there's something we or they could be doing a ton better. I'm sure there are reasons for why it's all confusing and disorienting.

Spending time trying to contribute to open source Android applications really brings me a lot of empathy for new Python users.

I barely understand what I'm doing. The packaging ecosystem seems complicated and I don't understand it. When I try and upgrade versions a bunch of stuff breaks. The documentation refers to a bunch of stuff I don't understand, and seems relevant only to newer code bases.

@paulox @fdroidorg @AntennaPod So it seems like the issue is that you need to have some sort of service that defines a `MediaBrowserCompatService` or something. Not sure I've got it all the way, and my task seems complicated by the fact that Android 9+ doesn't allow you to start a background service that has access to the microphone, and it seems that whatever I have done is trying to do that‽

@hynek @glyph @offby1 Not sure what this one counts as, but it's probably #rule34...

https://mastodon.ml/@xenomorph/110408399539022662

@hynek @glyph @offby1 Just checked when I saw this and there were some very explicit drawings in the 5th post I saw. It's probably 5% of my federated feed, and that's including all the filters and instance muting I've done.

Long shot, but anyone with Android / Android Auto experience know what's going on here?

https://stackoverflow.com/q/76297425/467366

#android #auto #androidauto

@adamchainz Overall I really like it, though it's the only cargo bike I've ever ridden. I'd like it if I could go faster (motor cuts out at 20mph, I can get up to 27 going down a hill).

My wife has an Aventon abound, I've ridden that a few times. It's not as good and the acceleration curve is a bit jerkier for my tastes, but she likes hers more than the Urban Arrow. She doesn't have nearly the same storage capacity as I have, but she can take both our kids if she needs to.

Plus it's *dramatically* cheaper.

@adamchainz I bought it back in December and I've put 800 miles on it already. I just got the snow tires off and apparently the steering column had too many bearings in it, so now my steering is much more smooth 😅

Yo dawg, I heard you like bicycles...

#bikes

@alex That said, I am not amazingly hopeful about this technology because whenever I ask a question or make a statement to *humans* that has like 3-4 requirements, I get a bunch of suggestions for stuff that is vaguely similar and meets 2 of the requirements.

@alex Yeah, that's not bad, but the order matters, and nothing I see has light blue on top and dark blue on the bottom.

Plus, this is a rare case where I have a picture of the thing I want. Sometimes I want something like, "A t-shirt with a gradient going from dark red on the bottom to golden yellow on the top, with black trim", and I can't find any examples of it.

Carter's has this shirt for kids, but I can't find an adult version anywhere. Trying to tell Amazon or a search engine that it's important that the shirt have all three colors (much less in a specific order) seems impossible.

One day I hope ML technology advances to the point that I can describe a shirt and find out if someone is selling something like it.