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+synopsis: "Increase retry delays on Http 429"
+issues:
+prs: [13052]
+---
+
+When downloading Nix, the retry delay was previously set to 0.25 seconds. It has now been increased to 1 minute to better handle transient CI errors, particularly on GitHub.
+