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mousetail

11:24

I love the media state API. It just doesn't work half the time and gives 0 feedback. It just doesn't seem to work with some specific audio files and some duration's for no reason?

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mousetail

All I want to do is get an event when someone presses the pause key, but to dot that I need to play a silent audo track on loop and then set album art and other stupid stuff

And if it doesn't think your audio track is genuine enough it just doesn't receive the events and doesn't tell you why

The exact order you set the event listeners and add the different metadata also seems to matter

mousetail

11:55

I change something, it works. Then I change it back, and it still works ?!?!. I have no idea what I'm doing

Time to submit a blank pull request that fixes the issue

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Simd

17:52

@mousetail which language?

mousetail

18:04

It's a web API, so JS though it would probably work the same in WASM

Simd

Ah ok. I know nothing about that

If you have python module called x and you only want to use x.foo, is it faster to do from x import foo than import x. My imports are taking too long

mousetail

No, it will load the entire module either way

I've never seen modules take any significant time to load, anything unusual about them?

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Simd

19:23

@mousetail I don't think so but they take about 10 seconds all in

It's probably the network that is slow

mousetail

Why do you need to load modules over the network?

pxeger

19:36

Just ~won an IRL code golf competition

(didn't really win because the scoring system incentivised solving all the problems, and I chose not to)
(but I had the shortest solution for all the problems I did solve)

Simd

20:09

@mousetail is a network file system

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