One concrete data point for the thread. Practical: whatever you change, write down the date and the reason. In three months the reason is what you will have forgotten, and the reason is what makes the record worth having.
One thing that is still open after KevinCompounds’s answer:
How long did you give it before you decided it was working?
stefan_berlin said:Practical: whatever you change, write down the date and the reason.
Pushing back on stefan_berlin here. Filing an objection on the n=1 problem. Personal experience is genuine evidence about one person and very weak evidence about anybody else, and this thread keeps promoting the first into the second.
If somebody has the primary source to hand I would rather cite it than paraphrase it.
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Shop Reference Standardsstefan_berlin said:Practical: whatever you change, write down the date and the reason.
That is right, and it stops being right at the edges. The general case is well behaved; the interesting cases in this thread are all at the boundary where the general case breaks.
stefan_berlin said:Practical: whatever you change, write down the date and the reason.
This answered a question I did not know how to ask. I will report back once I have actually tried it.