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The nice thing about a 1-liner is you only lose a few minutes to throwing it out entirely and rewriting it to fit a new purpose. Dwelling on what might be needed is of limited utility, because of the very real possibility that what's actually needed in the future is wildly different from what you spent all that time planning for.

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