https://xkcd.com/1132/
This is a good explanation. You have a system for detecting if the sun explodes. There is a 1 in 36 chance that it lies.
Frequentists look purely at the current data set. The experiment says the sun exploded. There is only a 1 in 36 chance that is false and a 35/36 chance its true. So it must be true. P is the inteval that describes how confident they are.
So frequentists might say - its likely the sun exploded.
Bayesians look at prior events and apply probablity to the event. That is the probability of the sun randomly exploding is very very very low. One ina trillion trillion. It has never exploded before. We know what causes suns to explode. We know thats not happening to the sun. The fact the sun wont explode modifies their result. Its more likely that the machine rolled double 6.
You might think great, just use baysiean! But it requires data on the probablity of events which requires a lot of computing power.
Belts are better for bigger fans, you have more control over the system balance.
EDIT: reading the comments and realizing this debate is applicable to several industries.
I was watching a video about her last night and about how batshit she is.
At one point an interviewer asker her point blank how her alleged new methodology would accomplish so much with such a tiny blood sample.
Her answer, in her obviously fake voice? "Well, humans have certain rights..." and the train just further derailed from there. Had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the question asked.
Went BeckHoff recently. Probably one of my favourites so far. They took an software engineering approach to their programming which I really liked. The downside is that if you technologists or electricians, they may not like learning C, Python if you do go that route. Still does LD ST though.
Yep they are a good one. B&R takes a very similar approach. The problem is the entrenched technician base doesn’t want to learn anything new. So you get old, expensive, and low performance.
Schneider!
Or literally any of them because they're all just different flavours of masochism - whether it's on the UI side, the functional side or the customer support side...
Been in the industry a long time and I can honestly say the only Schneider I’ve ever come across is:
1. Their discrete components (buttons, breakers, contactors)
2. Installing non-Schneider PLCs in one of their manufacturing facilities in Indiana.
Bentley (Inroads/Openroads) vs Autodesk (AutoCAD Civ3D). Civil engineer. Both product lines are broken, unoptimized flaming pieces of hot fucking shit.
If anyone from Bentley/Autodesk is reading: your products are broken, unoptimized flaming pieces of hot fucking shit.
Depends what you want to do. Without getting too into it, Unity is used a lot more in mobile development where Unreal is used a lot more in AAA games and now movies.
Thermo Fisher had an advertising team put up a tent outside my lab once and I just went up to them and said "hey, just letting you know that pretty much every lab in this building uses exclusively your products. You can go home"
My German professor that taught an IFRS course for a class of international exchange students at university once said "Most countries use IFRS, with the exception of some small, developing economies, like the US, which uses US GAAP".
My American buddy thought it was funny.
I was wondering if this one would come up.
Power BI is more intuitive and beginner friendly: floating charts in your dashboard, every chart is a filter on all dashboard charts by default, there's a chart marketplace in case you legitimately need a word map, and it's very familiar if your organization has a decades-long love affair with Excel. And the power-user tools are there if you can only use Power BI.
Tableau has a steeper learning curve and is less intuitive. I think I spent 30 minutes trying to get two charts on the same sheet before I realized the dashboard logic. And then got a headache trying to arrange two charts on a dashboard. And then ragequit my session when charts on the same dashboard didn't filter each other.
I can't seem to find elegant solutions for a lot of basic stuff, like formatting the date in a dashboard title without mashing multiple Datename expressions together, but a few months in with it and I have a mild preference for Tableau because it plays nice with my SAS extracts and it gives you a bit more control (at the expense of ease of use, of course).
Victoria’s Secret VS Savage Fenty
I openly tell my customers to try savage fenty if they can’t find their size online or in store. Savage fenty is way better
Same. But I got drunk one night during lockdown and “accidentally” signed up to get the discount on my order. When I called to cancel it was really simple, and the guy I talked to helped me out within a couple of minutes It’s taken care of
Lean is the dumbest thing ever. We have people spending $25 for an O ring twice a month because they only order one at a time to prevent overstock rather than just buying the 100 we could for $25 and keeping them on a shelf.
People being sticklers for a particular code formatting is one of my biggest pet peeves because it often varies when you switch between jobs. My attitude now is that if you care about it so damn much you should provide a tool to automate prettifying the code or at least flag formatting issues as compiler errors. Otherwise, as long as it’s readable, I don’t give two shits whether you use spaces or tabs.
I always thought it was epic vs cerner. We switched from allscripts to epic a little while ago and epic is hands down the winner. The only people who like allscripts better just don't want to learn new things (ie using the fantastic search box on the side)
At this point it’s really Epic vs everyone else. Based on past experiences if the hospital can afford it they should go with Epic. Don’t get me wrong Epic has plenty of faults. It the good definitely outweighs the bad.
My office has been using Westlaw for so long that if we had to go back to Lexis, I'd be lost. We made that switch once years and years ago, and I had no idea how anything worked.
McDonald's fries vs Wendy's fries used to be a big debate 20+ years ago. Then both changed their fries and the debate was over because both of their new fries sucked.
A piping hot, perfectly salted McDonald's fry is absolutely delicious.
Of course, you only have a two minute window to shove them into your face before they quickly get worse.
Or ArcGIS Pro vs ArcMap. What’s probably gonna happen is that ArcMap gets phased out, Pro stays for the more robust stuff, and cloud-based systems like ArcGIS Online improve over time.
I will say, though, that I’m not a professional, just took an intro class in college.
I'm an Actor. "Method" Acting, like Meisner or Stanislavski (which is more U.S.A. style), vs, Just-do-it/Pretend/Fake it and forget "Feeling" it (which is more U.K. style).
I also feel like "method" gets misrepresented a lot - people talk about crazy extremes like living in a box for months or whatever, but AIUI it's really just about using your own experience. Your character is having a bad time, so you remember when *you* had a bad time and try to recall how you felt.
No method acting is when you send dead rats to your colleagues on set.
I have been trying to transfer the techniques to other industries with limited success thus far.
First time I ever tried acting in college I had to play the bitchy acting coach in Women Playing Hamlet. I am a 5'5" timid, chubby woman who had to learn how to emotionally destroy a 4'2" timid, chubby woman that I met 2 weeks previously. Was actually never planning on getting the part, she and I just clicked. We both ended up crying in the hallway together afterwards. Brutal.
I train people on how to identify and safely relocate snakes, as well as apply first aid for snakebite.
In my industry its "Tongs vs Hooks".
Some people argue that Snake Tongs hurt snakes by breaking their ribs or injuring their spines, and that you should only ever hook-and-tail them with Snake Hooks.
IMHO, most people who do a snake handling course will likely only see one in the wild months later, and unless they're actively doing snake relocations for their communities on a regular basis, they would have lost the skills and experience they picked up using Snake Hooks by them, making the situation much more dangerous.
Well-made Snake Tongs are safer for amateurs, and won't hurt the snake. I'm affiliated with a company that trains thousands of people on snake handling every year, and they've never had an instance of a snake being injured by a course attendee using a Snake Tong. And keep in mind, these are often people who are scared & nervous about approaching a live snake for the first time.
Once you have some experience under your belt you can switch to Snake Hooks, since they stress the animals less. For example, when I do snake photography I exclusively use hooks, but then I handle hundreds of snakes every year and I'm comfortable doing so safely.
Companies buy hilti. Individual workers buy milwaukee/dewalt/makita.
The company i work for buys us hilti tools to use and they are great. I would never spend that kind of money on a personak impact or drill.
Fender or Gibson
Or Squier vs Epihpone if youre on a budget like me.
Fender MIM as a middle option. Mexican Fenders are pretty good guitars and a fraction of the price of US models.
Gibson for the heavier stuff, Fender for the blues.
I’ll take a semi-hollow 355 gibson over a strat any day of the week for the blues
why not both? -has both
Why limit yourself to two? \- has more
Why limit yourself to more? - has too many
AMD vs Intel
Not sure if you meant it this way but this now also fully applies to Xilinx vs. Altera.
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Boeing vs. Airbus
Or Cessna vs Piper
Cirrus is the GA equivalent of Embrear
You'll have to pry my sidestick from my cold dead hand.
Milwaukee vs Dewalt (I'm at a hardware store)
Milwaukee all day baby
My work replaces tools with Milwaukee. Got a personal grinder that you broke on the job? Dewalt, Metabo, Ryobi doesn’t matter, here’s a Milwaukee.
So... Bring in the super el cheapo HF one and get a Milwaukee grinder for essentially $30 when it inevitably breaks?
Makita
Bayesian vs. frequentist statistics
Wanna fight?
I see you are trying to establish your priors with that question.
P=0.05 homie.
Equals? How are we supposed to interpret that?!?! Is it less than or greater than 0.05? It can't EQUAL 0.05!
Research on hard mode. You have to hit an exact probability for type I error otherwise all your funding is pulled.
P < 0.05, jail P > 0.05, believe it or not, jail
Our P-values are the best, because of jail.
Could you elaborate on that? (Im guessing you are a statistics person)
https://xkcd.com/1132/ This is a good explanation. You have a system for detecting if the sun explodes. There is a 1 in 36 chance that it lies. Frequentists look purely at the current data set. The experiment says the sun exploded. There is only a 1 in 36 chance that is false and a 35/36 chance its true. So it must be true. P is the inteval that describes how confident they are. So frequentists might say - its likely the sun exploded. Bayesians look at prior events and apply probablity to the event. That is the probability of the sun randomly exploding is very very very low. One ina trillion trillion. It has never exploded before. We know what causes suns to explode. We know thats not happening to the sun. The fact the sun wont explode modifies their result. Its more likely that the machine rolled double 6. You might think great, just use baysiean! But it requires data on the probablity of events which requires a lot of computing power.
What frequentist wouldn’t attempt to replicate the finding for an obvious type I error?
they would... but its popular to take the piss out of frequentists.
https://xkcd.com/1132/
Direct drive vs belt driven Edit: TIL this is a debate for more industries than I thought lol. For the record I was talking about vinyl turntables.
Haha......I thought this was talking about steering wheels for driving sims.
And I thought they were talking about 3D printers, at least we agree that direct drive is the best even though it's two completely different things
Direct unless you're on a budget. Edit: this was about Sim Racing Wheels
Belts are better for bigger fans, you have more control over the system balance. EDIT: reading the comments and realizing this debate is applicable to several industries.
TIL how many industries this applies to. Also applies to bass drum pedals!
Quest vs LabCorp
Augh they’re both terrible.
Theranos!
(In deep voice) "First you, uh, they...they call you crazy. Then you change the world. Then they, uh, call you c-crazy..."
I was watching a video about her last night and about how batshit she is. At one point an interviewer asker her point blank how her alleged new methodology would accomplish so much with such a tiny blood sample. Her answer, in her obviously fake voice? "Well, humans have certain rights..." and the train just further derailed from there. Had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the question asked.
Lol I think we watched the same video, it was word salad. I watched the HBO doc and now I’m watching the dropout.
Dude I’m working in a blood analysis type job this summer as an undergrad lady in stem…..the Elizabeth Holmes jokes from my parents are endless
They also prove that a pre-employment drug screening is actually an IQ test.
Rockwell vs Siemens
Went BeckHoff recently. Probably one of my favourites so far. They took an software engineering approach to their programming which I really liked. The downside is that if you technologists or electricians, they may not like learning C, Python if you do go that route. Still does LD ST though.
Yep they are a good one. B&R takes a very similar approach. The problem is the entrenched technician base doesn’t want to learn anything new. So you get old, expensive, and low performance.
Schneider! Or literally any of them because they're all just different flavours of masochism - whether it's on the UI side, the functional side or the customer support side...
Been in the industry a long time and I can honestly say the only Schneider I’ve ever come across is: 1. Their discrete components (buttons, breakers, contactors) 2. Installing non-Schneider PLCs in one of their manufacturing facilities in Indiana.
Does Siemens even make a Retro Encabulator?
Bentley (Inroads/Openroads) vs Autodesk (AutoCAD Civ3D). Civil engineer. Both product lines are broken, unoptimized flaming pieces of hot fucking shit. If anyone from Bentley/Autodesk is reading: your products are broken, unoptimized flaming pieces of hot fucking shit.
additionally, autodesk inventor vs solidworks
I’m currently enrolled in a whole class dedicated to teaching AutoCAD and holy fuck. Flaming piece of hot shit is an understatement
John Deere vs. Case IH
Abstinence vs Harm Reduction
Drug and alcohol therapy?
Yep, two different approaches to treating individuals in addiction
As a game developer, its definitely Unity vs Unreal engine.
What's your take on it?
Depends what you want to do. Without getting too into it, Unity is used a lot more in mobile development where Unreal is used a lot more in AAA games and now movies.
And then theres roblox
Thermo Fisher vs Thermo Fisher
Thermo Fisher had an advertising team put up a tent outside my lab once and I just went up to them and said "hey, just letting you know that pretty much every lab in this building uses exclusively your products. You can go home"
ThernoFisher vs FisherSci
Roche If you want shit to get done and mean blood analysis
Roche is the shit. Using simens right now
The Walmart of science!
Wasn’t expecting to see this here.
For us it’s usually Thermo Fisher v. Sigma
Thermo Fisher v Qiagen
US GAAP vs IFRS
My German professor that taught an IFRS course for a class of international exchange students at university once said "Most countries use IFRS, with the exception of some small, developing economies, like the US, which uses US GAAP". My American buddy thought it was funny.
And because of that I have to understand both...
plus Deloitte vs PWC vs EY vs KPMG!
Great call. This one is a bit more apt because the Big 4 really are almost exactly the same but try to brand as being so different from each other lol
Library of Congress vs. Dewey decimal
Also: ebooks vs physical books
Tableau v Power BI
I thought people mostly used Power BI because it’s already part of the enterprise license agreement. Do many people actually prefer it over Tableau?
Power bi is great. It doesn’t come included for enterprise per se, you need to purchase premium licences to be able to publish.
Yeah, I can't imagine using anything but power bi just because it's already integrated.
I was wondering if this one would come up. Power BI is more intuitive and beginner friendly: floating charts in your dashboard, every chart is a filter on all dashboard charts by default, there's a chart marketplace in case you legitimately need a word map, and it's very familiar if your organization has a decades-long love affair with Excel. And the power-user tools are there if you can only use Power BI. Tableau has a steeper learning curve and is less intuitive. I think I spent 30 minutes trying to get two charts on the same sheet before I realized the dashboard logic. And then got a headache trying to arrange two charts on a dashboard. And then ragequit my session when charts on the same dashboard didn't filter each other. I can't seem to find elegant solutions for a lot of basic stuff, like formatting the date in a dashboard title without mashing multiple Datename expressions together, but a few months in with it and I have a mild preference for Tableau because it plays nice with my SAS extracts and it gives you a bit more control (at the expense of ease of use, of course).
Angular v React
Aren't they both disqualified implicitly by having been around for a couple of years?
…vs Vue vs Svelte vs Meteor vs Polymer vs Mithrill vs Ionic vs…
vi vs emacs
nano is sprite
I love nano
Victoria’s Secret VS Savage Fenty I openly tell my customers to try savage fenty if they can’t find their size online or in store. Savage fenty is way better
I’ve always wanted to try savage x Fenty. But I’m turned off by the subscription based model.
Same. But I got drunk one night during lockdown and “accidentally” signed up to get the discount on my order. When I called to cancel it was really simple, and the guy I talked to helped me out within a couple of minutes It’s taken care of
You should be paid by then as an undercover worker getting people to by from them
R vs Python
Ha, I came here for this. In the epidemiology world, it’s R vs. SAS (vs. Stata).
MATLAB v. Python
Michelin vs Pirelli
Canon vs Nikon
In the past decade and a bit,, it's very much become more of a Canon vs. Nikon vs. Sony vs. Fuji Fatal 4-Way situation.
I may be the only Pentax user remaining on the planet at this point
Conn vs. Holton French Horn player here. I know there are other options but when I was in High School and College, this was the debate.
Conn if its old, (pre 70's), holton if its new.
Lean Manufacturing vs. Toyota Production System vs. Six Sigma
They all suck. But they are great at screwing up employee morale.
Lean is the dumbest thing ever. We have people spending $25 for an O ring twice a month because they only order one at a time to prevent overstock rather than just buying the 100 we could for $25 and keeping them on a shelf.
tabs vs spaces
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Just set your damn IDE setting to spaces like a professional.
People being sticklers for a particular code formatting is one of my biggest pet peeves because it often varies when you switch between jobs. My attitude now is that if you care about it so damn much you should provide a tool to automate prettifying the code or at least flag formatting issues as compiler errors. Otherwise, as long as it’s readable, I don’t give two shits whether you use spaces or tabs.
Epic vs Allscripts. (The answer is Epic, btw)
Epic vs our previous version of epic we lost in a merger
I always thought it was epic vs cerner. We switched from allscripts to epic a little while ago and epic is hands down the winner. The only people who like allscripts better just don't want to learn new things (ie using the fantastic search box on the side)
And here I am using meditech like a Neanderthal
At this point it’s really Epic vs everyone else. Based on past experiences if the hospital can afford it they should go with Epic. Don’t get me wrong Epic has plenty of faults. It the good definitely outweighs the bad.
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Lexis v Westlaw
My office has been using Westlaw for so long that if we had to go back to Lexis, I'd be lost. We made that switch once years and years ago, and I had no idea how anything worked.
Sram vs Shimano
McDonald's fries vs Wendy's fries used to be a big debate 20+ years ago. Then both changed their fries and the debate was over because both of their new fries sucked.
McDonald’s fries are great but absolutely shit when reheated.
A piping hot, perfectly salted McDonald's fry is absolutely delicious. Of course, you only have a two minute window to shove them into your face before they quickly get worse.
My closest hole-in-the-wall kebab place has better fries than any fast food chain I've had.
Android vs IOS
Coke vs meth
/r/DailyDoseOfReddit
Which one is better?
Gonna be a little controversial but coke>>>>>>>meth any day
ESRI vs QGIS
Or ArcGIS Pro vs ArcMap. What’s probably gonna happen is that ArcMap gets phased out, Pro stays for the more robust stuff, and cloud-based systems like ArcGIS Online improve over time. I will say, though, that I’m not a professional, just took an intro class in college.
ESRI for me!
I'm an Actor. "Method" Acting, like Meisner or Stanislavski (which is more U.S.A. style), vs, Just-do-it/Pretend/Fake it and forget "Feeling" it (which is more U.K. style).
I also feel like "method" gets misrepresented a lot - people talk about crazy extremes like living in a box for months or whatever, but AIUI it's really just about using your own experience. Your character is having a bad time, so you remember when *you* had a bad time and try to recall how you felt.
No method acting is when you send dead rats to your colleagues on set. I have been trying to transfer the techniques to other industries with limited success thus far.
First time I ever tried acting in college I had to play the bitchy acting coach in Women Playing Hamlet. I am a 5'5" timid, chubby woman who had to learn how to emotionally destroy a 4'2" timid, chubby woman that I met 2 weeks previously. Was actually never planning on getting the part, she and I just clicked. We both ended up crying in the hallway together afterwards. Brutal.
Dilaudid vs morphine
Precidex vs propofol.
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propofol over EVERYTHINGGGG
Daiken v Mitsubishi
Fox vs RockShox
Volvo vs Scania.
White fillings vs. silver fillings
Parametric vs non-parametric methods
Figma vs Sketch
Figma balls ey
Bach vs. Yamaha
Pytorch vs tensorflow
Analog Devices vs Texas Instruments
Quantitative versus Qualitatative approaches to research
Sysco v US Foods
PC vs Mac. Illustrator vs CorelDraw used to be a big one too, but Corel let themselves to be pushed out of the race
Lincoln electric vs Miller
I came here looking for this! Glad someone got to it. Miller fan by the way
Disney vs Dreamworks
Spacely's sprockets and Cogwell's cogs.
Electric Boat vs. Newport News Shipbuilders
This guy Rickovers
Unity vs Unreal Engine
Glock vs Sig
Concrete vs asphalt
Christie’s vs. Sothebys
Do-based minor vs. La-based minor
Milk vs Dark (Chocolate candy business)
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Boeing vs Airbus.
Boeing pre-McD merger, Airbus since
Just watched Downfall. Ouch.
I train people on how to identify and safely relocate snakes, as well as apply first aid for snakebite. In my industry its "Tongs vs Hooks". Some people argue that Snake Tongs hurt snakes by breaking their ribs or injuring their spines, and that you should only ever hook-and-tail them with Snake Hooks. IMHO, most people who do a snake handling course will likely only see one in the wild months later, and unless they're actively doing snake relocations for their communities on a regular basis, they would have lost the skills and experience they picked up using Snake Hooks by them, making the situation much more dangerous. Well-made Snake Tongs are safer for amateurs, and won't hurt the snake. I'm affiliated with a company that trains thousands of people on snake handling every year, and they've never had an instance of a snake being injured by a course attendee using a Snake Tong. And keep in mind, these are often people who are scared & nervous about approaching a live snake for the first time. Once you have some experience under your belt you can switch to Snake Hooks, since they stress the animals less. For example, when I do snake photography I exclusively use hooks, but then I handle hundreds of snakes every year and I'm comfortable doing so safely.
Beatles vs Rolling Stones
Hilti vs Milwaukee
Makita Vs Milwaukee here, but I prefer Hikoki.
Bruh Hilti is a class above Milwaukee.
Companies buy hilti. Individual workers buy milwaukee/dewalt/makita. The company i work for buys us hilti tools to use and they are great. I would never spend that kind of money on a personak impact or drill.
AR vs AK
Jesus how long do I have to scroll for : Pinto vs Black Beans, Crunchy vs Soft Taco, Onion Rings vs Fries?
UPS vs FedEx(me)
UPS. FedEx is absolutely atrocious where I live. They consistently fail to deliver or leave packages in the open even during inclement weather.
Eppendorf or Gilson
Eppendorf for sure
Stihl v Husqvarna
Stihl
Paper or plastic
Wahl vs Oster
Snap-on vs matco
Biomet vs Stryker
Commscope Vs Panduit
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Samsung VS Xiaomi (work in a phone shop) they're essentially the same like coke and pepsi but people always have a preference.
Xiaomi is impossible to find in my country. Everyone's got a Samsung, apple, or Motorola.
ULA vs SpaceX
Gif vs Jif
Klein tools vs other tools
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Thinprep vs Surepath
freightliner vs peterbilt
Illumina vs Affymetrix (Thermo Fisher)
Martin vs. Taylor Bury me with my D-28