embix

airline tycoon game could be a game on it’s own … Sounds fun

It, is - or was. Not a “serious” tycoon game, but certainly fun.

Unfortunately they kinda dropped the ball with the successor. If they made another one, I’d probably buy it anyways.

Yea, an Airline Tycoon mod/dlc would have been nice.

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?

It’s ::1, but also fe80::d00f:foo5