Why do programmers hate unit suffixes so much? "timeout = 1" is, unfortunately, a classic (seconds? milliseconds? microseconds? minutes?).
Now I see "diskSize = 1024 * 20" in the #nix package for #singularity. Jesus! Make it "diskSizeMiB" or something"...
#programming
Philipp :emacs: :nixos:
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