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Hey! I woke up at 06:00 to check what was wrong with a service. It turned out, a server in Germany could not reach a server in Finland in the 20" timeout I had set.

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You set your timeout in inches? I thought you were all metric over tehre, except for socket drivers which are universally imperial :P

Yes, although miles would be more appropriate! https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html

Just for the record

20": English notation for twenty seconds

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