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by theamk 15 days ago
For external events, like code update or new publish, sure. But the author talks about scheduled events - it's harder to think of good examples here.

(because with scheduled events, if you missed deadline once, there is a good chance that restarting with exactly the same deadline will miss again, and again, and you will never finish. Better do "prefer old" and at least have _some_ finished data)