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Well, I’m also the sort of person who wouldn’t. Similarly, I also never copy&paste example code when reading documentation, instead, I immediately jump into writing my own variation. It took me a while to realize that’s not typical.

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I'd rather try the defaults, see if it works or what doesn't work, or just to gain some experience for how everything involved works, and then work off of that known baseline. Anything else just feels like randomly throwing shit at the wall to me. Especially if I'm not familiar with the thing I need the example for.

Often examples don't make it clear what is expected. As a consequence you might copy the example value temporarily until your understanding solidifies, but it never does, or doesn't before it gets a dependency on it.

So foo.bar.com or my-subdomain.example.com?

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