Carburetor Tuning
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Carburetor tuning:
Even when you're doing it right, anything you change in one system will often screw something up in another unexpectedly.
Sometimes starting over from a reasonable baseline is better than hammering away at a not-quite-right but oh-so-close-to-working plan.
Keeping track of what you've done makes it easier to get where you want to be, even if what you've done has sucked grapes.
...funny. Writing music works the same way, too... and so does writing code.