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what do i want to happen? what are the constraints? what do they imply?

i'm tentatively imagining a delay that linearly reduces to min_delay.
if it linearly reduces, then it reduces at some rate, reduce_rate maybe

it's simpler to think of it going back in time, from the end where the
value could be considered 0 or min_delay or something.