embix

Just rewrite it with 80% functionality and force migrations on the users. Once the remaining 20% “edge cases” that require serious effort hop to the next job - where you where hired to “maintain” such a system and “just add a small feature here and there”. Ooops.

all other employers demand modern technologies

There are a lot of employers that’ll throw good money at you for maintaining and extending their outdated crap. Have you ever considered learning COBOL?

Currently out of stock, but what about

use English;
use strict;

tunefind when I hear something I like while binge watching, and occasionally to see what others seem to enjoy these days (although that only matches in say 10-15% of the cases).

wekan

When atlassian acquired trello, I exported some of my boards to see if wekan could import them - to my surprise, it could (at least for the kinds of features I used).

Since I despise Excel (mostly for the auto converting feature) I appreciate that alternative.

OTOH I am all but a typical user, and while I occasionally use LibreOffice Calc I prefer basic statistics and charts for SQL-tables and CSV-like data in LINQPad (since it’s the tool I use every day, i.e. to spike out ideas before using a real IDE).

non-moving home devices

There still is a use case - not that common in America but very common in (not only Europe’s) metropolitan areas:

If the devices are located in a dense urban residential area (say Berlin Gropiusstadt in the 11th of 20 floors) you have a lot of neighbors with wifi, and - at least on 2.5GHz - roughly a third of their wifis will use the same or overlapping frequency range. In the evening, when everyone and her dog streams the newest Season of Bridgerton those will send relatively short bursts for buffering the next five-ish(?) minutes.

This of course interferes with your measurement if you happen to measure at exactly the same time, so having multiple samples instead and providing an aggregated value is - for this scenario - more helpful.

OTOH: it all depends on the use case of those appliances - if you don’t have competitive gamers who wonder why they sometimes lag in your valued customer list, that’s a non issue (and if they actual were competitive gamers, they should use an ethernet/fiber cable instead of wifi, obviously).

And you probably did not get that much time allocated to add the delay, so going with another variant could get you in trouble if it’s taking too long.

Then sneak in a test case that fails if the commit is made by Ron and ask Ron to implement it in an hour, all tests green. 😈

Instead I’d probably take multiple measurements some hundred milliseconds apart and do a basic statistical analysis (average as “main result”, but also lowest percentile, highest percentile and median). That way I don’t feel dirty for tricking the customer.

And while you’re at it, could you bring some wine and cake to GeoCities?

Yea, there are 50 game engines written in rust - or so I heard.

Tbh it’s just microsoft java

Microsoft made so many javas (remember Visual J++ or J#?), C# is the only one that survived. Well, Microsoft now also ships OpenJDK, apparently.

it wouldn’t even let me copy/paste

It’s so real, right?

I hate when they forbid c/p password fields - that’s so stupid and even lessens security.

One day I might solve this, but this day is not today.

Redraw (f5?) or use other browser.

Have you ever played You Shall Not Pass?

Today’s Wordle Answer:

I already had my WordleHelper so that wasn’t actually that hard.> What killed me was trying to feed the chicken while hunting for a YouTube video of a certain length.

Chess Move Solver:
https://nextchessmove.com/

That’s the stuff! I chickened out at the chess question.

What killed me was trying to feed the chicken while hunting for a YouTube video of a certain length.

That will be solved with the browser’s dev tools, I guess 😇

Did you make it to rule 34? If it is not releated to “Rule 34”, I’d be disappointed.

I created a video of the correct length using the Windows built-in video editor and uploaded that.

That’s the spirit.

Since maps only works in iframes and I my browsers don’t like that. After a dozen attempts to brute force, I considered it fair to put a breakpoint in js and look at the stack (a habit I gained after playing untrusted ). I only glimpsed at the code for what was still ahead. When I encountered the chess question I decided to go finally to bed - since that wasn’t the last rule or even close. I guess Friday after work would be the best time to start this again.