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This hits on the head a broad pattern in my computer usage: never close something you'll come back to soon.

I've known many people who finish the workday by clicking Shut Down on their workstation, and start the next workday with a fresh boot. That is so alien to me; I click Suspend, so each day everything is exactly how it needs to be to continue working, including terminal output, running processes, open windows and their state, etc. This saves me time, and jump-starts my brain by basically loading in the swapped-out mental context I was in yesterday instead of reinitializing the same mental state from scratch.



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