Hacker News with Generative AI: Timeouts

Way too many ways to wait on a child process with a timeout (gaultier.github.io)
I often need to launch a program in the terminal in a retry loop. Maybe because it's flaky, or because it tries to contact a remote service that is not available. A few scenarios:
Programming, Terminal, Child Processes, Timeouts
125 points by broken_broken_ 10 days ago | 32 comments
setBigTimeout (evanhahn.com)
In short: JavaScript’s setTimeout breaks after ~25 days. I made setBigTimeout, a silly module to get around this problem. See the package on npm or the source code.
JavaScript, Software, Libraries, Timeouts
211 points by cfj 35 days ago | 124 comments