Fun fact, ping is the standard windows way to wait a given number of seconds[0]. You're supposed to ping 127.0.0.1, but I saw a lot of scripts pinging 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8

[0]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1672338/how-to-sleep-for...

> standard windows way

The thread you linked to suggests 'timeout'[0]

[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administrat...

Scroll down. Ping is preferred because timeout is buggy