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0 pointspeheje2y ago0 comments

"I guess you could always cap off the exponential interval increases at some max interval, making it basically a repeating timer."

No you MUST have a max interval cap. Exponentials and all, you'll soon be waiting days or months for a retry.

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mmac_2y ago

It's ok, if you wait long enough it'll go back down to a small number. Or maybe a negative number and then the car crashes?

Please cap your numbers for both user experience reasons, and safety reasons.

Yes, have dealt with this before. Nothing like doing a fault analysis and telling someone that it'll fix itself in a few months.

A capped fibonacci sequence is a very common back off timer.

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