This or That?

[DaveRattlehead]

An afternoon at a coffee shop sipping away at a latte and reading a book, or a night out at a metal gig feeling the music rattle through your body as you dance the night away?

Aren't both of them compatible?

Have a relaxing and easy job with a medioce pay, or a stressful and high octane job with a high pay?

This one's a very tough question, not gonna lie. If I'm able to rest after work, I'll pick the second option. If I have to be stressed 24/7, I'd definitely choose the first option. Money is important in this life, but having your own life is very important too.

Not a very fun fact, but most of the salaries in Spain are mediocre...

Live in a rich country with abusive parents, or in a poor country with living parents

Again... Money is important in this life, but why would I want the money if I am mentally destroyed and unable to enjoy it?

Credit card or cash?

[Greengoop]

Cash by far. It makes me mad when a shop is card-only and my card isn’t working

Train or bus?

[DaveRattlehead]

It's probably the very first time that I hear that. Normally it's the other way round here. Sometimes I don't have enough cash, so I have to pay using the credit card, but they tell me I can't do that. In really, it is because they have to pay commissions to the bank and they don't want to do that, but normally they have an excuse prepared... I can't count how many times the dataphone casually doesn't work .

I prefer the train. I feel like I have more personal space there. But I gotta say I don't use public transport too much. I only took the bus/train at the first year in college, but since I'm able to drive a car I always go by car to every place. I can organize myself better and I'm not dependent of weird schedules (like, for example, getting back home at 8:30 pm even though I finished work at 6:00 pm ). I understand that public transport in big cities is fine, but where I live is horrible.

Shift work or 9:00-18:00 work (8h working + 1h lunch)?

[Hunchman801]

It's probably the very first time that I hear that. Normally it's the other way round here. Sometimes I don't have enough cash, so I have to pay using the credit card, but they tell me I can't do that. In really, it is because they have to pay commissions to the bank and they don't want to do that, but normally they have an excuse prepared... I can't count how many times the dataphone casually doesn't work .

That, and tax evasion.

Shift work or 9:00-18:00 work (8h working + 1h lunch)?

Definitely the latter, as it's much easier for your social life than shift work, but flexible hours are of course the preferred option here.

Double your salary and only see your family twice a year or stay the way things are?

[PluMGMK]

Definitely stay the way things are. I'm lucky enough to see my family all the time, and not to have any real need for that extra pay…

Do a job you find more "meaningful" for less money, or a less meaningful one for more money?
(This is based on a joke the Pointy-Haired Boss made in Dilbert a few times )

[DaveRattlehead]

Double your salary and only see your family twice a year or stay the way things are?

Right now I'm very young and luckily I don't have the necessity to get paid more. Of course, more money is always welcome and I'll want more in the future, but right now is more than enough for me so I'd prefer to stay the way things are.

Do a job you find more "meaningful" for less money, or a less meaningful one for more money?
(This is based on a joke the Pointy-Haired Boss made in Dilbert a few times )

I guess it depends on liking the job or not. If I like the less meaningful job and I get more money, the second option would be that bad, right?

Now, this is a small variation... Do a job you like for less money, or a job you don't like for more money?

[Greengoop]

A job I like. I couldn’t enjoy my money if I was suffering at my workplace 24/7

Ever threw up to school food?

[Fifo]

Ever threw up to school food?

I’m not sure what you’re trying to say there…

Handwritten addresses or a pre-paid printed shipping label?

[DaveRattlehead]

I don't really have a preference here, but I'll say the latter. At least if I have to pay to send something, it doesn't take too much time for them to print the adress in a label, right?

Christmas holidays or summer holidays?

[Fifo]

I don't really have a preference here, but I'll say the latter. At least if I have to pay to send something, it doesn't take too much time for them to print the adress in a label, right?

Who’s “them”?

Just kidding. I mean, I was referring to the ones you order online and print out yourself to save time at the post office.

Christmas holidays or summer holidays?

Summer holidays. Christmas is overrated, IMO.

Nasopharyngeal or oropharyngeal swab?

(The former is when they go very deep into your nasal cavity with a thin flexible swab; the latter is when they swab the very back of your throat)

[DaveRattlehead]

Nasopharyngeal swab. The other one would probably make me gag

Crows or parrots?

[Greengoop]

Parrots, crows are a bit annoying

Have an iPhone 15 Pro Max or a Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra?

[Fifo]

I have the former, I’m actually thumbing out this post from it

“rm –rf /” or “dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda1”?

(Never run those commands in a Unix/Linux command line if you don’t want to have everything wiped – you’ve been warned!)

[The Jonster]

I'll go with removing an entire directory, under the right circumstances and with a directory i don't need anymore, though that's probably a different command and not what the first command actually does. And admittedly I have no idea what the second one does so had to google that.

I swear both of these commands are making me think of the "delete system32 " joke Steo likes using.

(I'm sure nobody here is dumb enough to run any of those commands anyways right? RIGHT?????)

When downloading programs/files to your computer, do you leave them in one place, or create several folders/directories and sort them?

[DaveRattlehead]

I prefer having everything organized in different folders, it's easier for me to find what I want if I do that and more visually pleasant

I don't know anything about programation (just a bit of Java that I learned 7 years ago, but not too much), so I wouldn't even know how to run those commands

Would you prefer learning a very specific natural science or literary language?

[Hunchman801]

Probably a language! As for science, I'm usually more interested in formal science than in natural science.

Would you rather be fluent in a foreign language that you already speak a little, or in a completely new one that you have never even studied?

[Giant Chicken]

I'd choose the one I speak a little, because im Polish, but I dont speak it very well. So being able to speak my native language would be nice.

What data display is better, box plot or dot plot?

[PluMGMK]

Well, I guess it depends how many points you have. I look at a lot of boxplots and I've developed an appreciation for them (although when they were first "explained" to me in first year of university, I didn't get what they were at all or why they were useful )

I'll go with removing an entire directory, under the right circumstances and with a directory i don't need anymore, though that's probably a different command and not what the first command actually does

You must be thinking of "rm -rf .". The one Fifo posted deletes the root directory of the entire filesystem! Actually I would have gone with his second option, the dd, since there's a chance that in your setup /dev/sda1 is not important (like if it's a swap partition). But in most cases neither command will end well (if run with sufficient privileges).

Fractional-factorial experiment or custom experiment design?

[Hunchman801]

I haven't used fractional-factorial experiments, so I'll go for custom. That's probably a good way to define the ones we use to measure the efficiency of paid media.

Model-based or model-free experiments?

[DaveRattlehead]

I can't believe this got buried

I don't know if it's related to AI or anything else, but I'll interpret it as something from my work if you don't mind... I'm going to say model-based experiments. I've recently been using a machine learning model which was incredibly useful to determine mechanisms.

8 or more hours of sleep, or 5-6 hours of sleep?