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   *
   * <p>Assuming we have saturated demand, the time to go from maxPermits to thresholdPermits is
   * equal to warmupPeriod. And the time to go from thresholdPermits to 0 is warmupPeriod/2. (The
   * reason that this is warmupPeriod/2 is to maintain the behavior of the original implementation
   * where coldFactor was hard coded as 3.)
   *
   * <p>It remains to calculate thresholdsPermits and maxPermits.
   *
   * <ul>

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    return accessibleObject.getDeclaredAnnotations();
  }

  // We ought to be able to implement GenericDeclaration instead its parent AnnotatedElement.
  // That would give us this method declaration. But for some reason, implementing
  // GenericDeclaration leads to weird errors in Android tests:
  // IncompatibleClassChangeError: interface not implemented
  /** See {@link java.lang.reflect.GenericDeclaration#getTypeParameters()}. */

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   * Preconditions.checkNotNull.
   *
   * (verifyNotNull has many fewer "problem" callers, so we could try to be stricter. On the other
   * hand, verifyNotNull arguably has more reason to accept nullable arguments in the first
   * place....)
   */

  /**
   * Ensures that {@code reference} is non-null, throwing a {@code VerifyException} with a default
   * message otherwise.
   *

    if (seq.length() <= maxLength) {
      String string = seq.toString();
      if (string.length() <= maxLength) {
        return string;
      }
      // if the length of the toString() result was > maxLength for some reason, truncate that
      seq = string;
    }

    return new StringBuilder(maxLength)
        .append(seq, 0, truncationLength)
        .append(truncationIndicator)
        .toString();
  }

  /**

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