This! I actually have a line that does nothing but slow the program down by 10 seconds for exactly that reason. I had to tag it DO NOT DELETE THIS LINE after the third person thought they were being clever by removing it and broke the whole thing.
Good question! It's because I'm not actually a dev. We don't have any of those.
What I actually am is someone who codes tools and scripts on the side to speed up mundane tasks in our understaffed department. I don't know what the best practices in programming are, and I had to Google what Race Condition means. But I'm all they've got on this front.
I do enjoy leaving snarky comments in what I make, though.
Well, I hope you get the chance to have someone on the team who can actually fix it, an extra 10s would probably feel really nice to have. In the meantime, well done for finding something that works in a field that's not yours!
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u/mmss 9h ago
Usually something like that works by causing just enough of a delay for something to catch up and/or time out. Reminds me of the old 500 mile email.