#dev 2023-08-22

2023-08-22 UTC
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# 18:06 
sknebel https://skybridge.fly.dev/ bsky-api-to-mastodon-client-api-bridge
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# 21:55 
c​apjamesg [snarfed] I have a Python script that uses Threading and when I run .join() the callback function executes _again_ before finally stopping.
# 21:56 
c​apjamesg I assume .join() is supposed to terminate a thread?
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# 22:04 
[snarfed] it waits until the thread itself finishes
# 22:05 
c​apjamesg Good to know.
# 22:06 
c​apjamesg The issue was that I forgot a `return` statement somewhere 🤦
# 22:08 
c​apjamesg Gosh threading is complicated.
# 22:15 
[snarfed] concurrency at least, yes!
# 22:16 
[snarfed] avoid it at unless you really truly need it
# 22:24 
c​apjamesg In this case I really truly need it.
# 22:24 
c​apjamesg I need to be able to display a video in one thread and process instructions in another.
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# 23:17 
[snarfed] is this web? are these separate HTTP requests? can you multiprocess, ie run multiple WSGI workers?