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GitHub doesn't bill time, it bills jobs

I seeded a private repo from this one and burned a monthly Actions quota in forty-eight hours. The pipeline had not changed; the repository had. The multiplier that did it is the same thing that makes the gate fast — twelve parallel jobs, each rounded up to a full minute, green in three and a half minutes of wall clock and billed for twelve.

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