I had a Dell 333p from 1992 running Windows 3.11 via DOS 6. For many years I would dig it out and see it beat newer PCs from boot-up into editing a Word document. And Word 2.0 had a lot of the features I suspect most people still only use these days.
To continue the tangent, I'm currently learning Spanish and appreciate the really long tail involved in language learning. I often work with people who, while they do not speak English as their first language, speak it pretty much perfectly. Except for maybe a few minor "glitches", which would just never occur with a native speaker. I often wonder how pointing these out would be received, and though I presume many would be appreciative, maybe not all...
My top tip would be to regularly sip water while desk bound. This has the dual advantage of both hydrating and ensuring a physical break is regularly taken (a trip to the bathroom that involves a flight of stairs is a bonus).
Paradoxically, it seems to me that smokers are most likely to take regular breaks from their desk...
Well that's a most uncharitable characterisation of Ryanair. They are indeed profit-driven but they are unashamedly upfront and, frankly, honest about this. Their ruthless efficiency enables cheap flights across Europe, which was largely out of reach to previous generations. I'm not sure how they really differ from other successful profit-driven businesses, other than perhaps their marketing approach. You can choose not to fly with them of course, but many do, and wouldn't consider themselves immoral for doing so.
After this very incident, they continued flying over Belarus like nothing had happened. They couldn't sacrifice even a penny of profit, after one of their very own passengers had been kidnapped, to guarantee the safety of their customers. That was scummy, but absolutely in character for a business that doesn't even pretend to care about anything but their money. It took European law to make them provide the bare minimum of human comfort to their passengers.
I often have little alternative but to fly with Ryanair, as the airport in my hometown has been effectively taken over by them during a downturn. I honestly don't even experience much of the "cheapness" - for one reason or another, flying with my kids always ends up costing as much as on a regular airline. They currently owe me 600 quid for a flight I had booked pre-pandemic which obviously got cancelled - and they'd rather sit on a "voucher" for a decade rather than refund me, of course. I'm happy they changed the market a bit, but that was 30 years ago, now they're just a garden variety sociopathic business.
While his company and name seem to trigger a whole lot of people, Charles Koch has applied such a free market philosophy throughout his company, which is undoubtedly successful. I would recommend reading his book (Good Profit) to get a viewpoint of his approach, though unfortunately bias will preclude many from this.
Being doing this for years also, occasionally emailing to myself as a backup, mine is at nearly 60k lines.
Top tip is to add meta tags. I suffix them with a colon to help with searching. For example, the section containing my git notes begins with this line:
Git notes: / Git: / Git commands: / Github: / Git bash:
And any time I search for something I didn't have a tag for, then I add a new one, even misspellings.
Funny how similar this one it is to mine: I use tags surrounded by colons so I can attach a few of them and grep them easily (distinguishing them from normal text contents)
