[tim-kos]

retries: Infinity is meant to retry forever: retry.operation() already treats it like forever: true. But retry.timeouts() first tries to build an endless array of timeouts, so the process hangs until V8 aborts with "invalid size error". p-retry users hit this too.

retry.timeouts() now builds a finite backoff for retries: Infinity instead:

• With a finite maxTimeout, the timeouts grow until they reach maxTimeout, capped at 1000 timeouts. { factor: 1.1, maxTimeout: 60000 } ramps up to 60000 instead of stalling partway.
• Without one, it returns the timeouts for the default 10 retries.
• With factor <= 1 the timeouts never grow, so a single timeout is enough.

retry.operation() and retry.wrap() then keep repeating the last timeout, like forever: true does. Calling retry.timeouts({ retries: Infinity }) directly returns that finite list instead of hanging. It can't carry the "forever" flag, so the README documents the forever behavior under retry.operation().

Unlike #77, this doesn't mutate the caller's options, and it keeps retries: 0 and other falsy values.

Fixes #84
Supersedes #77

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