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What do `unref()` and `ref()` do on a Node.js Timeout, and why do timers drift?

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Letting a timer stop the event loop from exiting, and why setInterval is not a stopwatch.

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Placeholder — filled in by prisma/data/node-augments-ultra-1.ts via npm run augment:node.

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