That’s the engineering solution.

You could also hire two interns to do it layer by layer, call it the consultant‘s solution.

If you want an extremely fine and even brunoise that's exactly what you do.

Then it seems you need consultants to get a guide Michelin star

That sounds like a cost plus defense contract if there ever was one

The consultant solution would be to buy precut onions, so cutting perfect slices becomes someone else's problem.

There is a generation of tech users that downloaded TB of media for local storage. It’s just not something a lot of people do anymore but it created a psychological need, even if it’s not a technical necessity.

I mean have you noticed how bad streaming services have gotten...

This has been my impression in social science academia: a lot of ready to run methods are released as R packages.

Not OP but for everyone I know the desktop is mostly either empty or a messy “temp” folder.

I treat my desktop as a temp dir and manually empty it every few days.

A desktop hygiene tip I read years ago (but can't remember where) is to increase the size of your desktop icons almost to the point of being ridiculously large, like 96x96. This way your desktop will "fill up" faster, forcing you to clear it more regularly.

(*Me fails at the "empty it every few days" stage ...)

I use it as a Downloads folder.

I always know where my recently downloaded files are, and I have visual feedback of when I should delete them.

I also use it as a temporary launchpad for sorting uploads.

Totally. There's absolutely no in-between.-

Also important: When asked to peer-review, tell editors that you won’t be doing free work for for-profit publications that land behind a paywall.

I just tell them my hourly rate and ask how thorough of a review they are looking for.

I've yet to get a bite.

A leaky microwave would do the trick.

I randomly know some people who did research on the relationships between the stakeholders that are involved here. See:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08941920.2021.1...

I find the whole thing facinating.

How much are people typically tipping ChatGPT these days?

There seems to be at least some evidence that using gimmicks like "tipping" can actually harm performance:

https://aider.chat/docs/unified-diffs.html

I did not know that, I'd only seen the article and others like I linked.

For documents that require a longer process, I prefer formats that I can use comments and TODO in, with a text editor that feels familiar.

Other than that, I strongly agree. Word is also de facto standard when you want others to open and edit your document.

Word has comments. They work well as todo markers if they don't need to be retained (just make a comment to mark something and then delete it when it is resolved).

Buy something (semi-)professional like the Panasonic NE 1840. There should be smaller, cheaper variants. The NE 1027 EYG will most likely work for home use. Commercial appliances are made to last and then be repaired.

Panasonic NE 1840

first link i hit -- price was €3.552,56 Incl. BTW

meanwhile the local best buy is selling one on sale for $95 CAD. i'm all for simpler, knobs, etc., but that's a non-starter, and if i'm dropping $2000 on an appliance its going to be an espresso machine