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TranscriptA tweet saying "When men refer to themselves as "alpha males", I hear that int he context of software, where alpha versions are unstable, missing importand features, filled with flaws and not fit for the public.

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[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 12 points 13 hours ago

And alpha radiation, which has next to no penetrating power.

[–] LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 5 points 12 hours ago

Don't forget the bugs

[–] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I myself am more of a vertical slice...

[–] derpgon@programming.dev 3 points 12 hours ago

Jack of all trades, master of none...

[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

I feel like I’m a deprecated male

[–] kevin2107@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

and production still needs to get staged in beta before pushing

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

I’m a Gold Master Male. I’m ready for mass ~~procreation~~ duplication.

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago
[–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

In the context of software it can mean whatever the fuck dev wants.

[–] irelephant@programming.dev 9 points 13 hours ago

It essentially means, "beware, the software is pretty shit rn".

[–] Greyghoster@aussie.zone 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If someone advertises that they are supposedly “better” than someone else, I think “what a loser” and that they are most likely a liar.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago

Humility is a lost art.

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 49 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Quite reasonable given that the animal behavior researchers recanted on the wolf research that led to a mistaken usage of the terms alpha and beta. Turns out they were just looking at adult wolves and labeling them alpha, and juvenile wolves and labeling those beta.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

A lot of the Alpha/Beta hierarchies that right-wingers venerate also have strong parallels between parent/child relationships. Almost as though there is this generation of excess males desperately looking for adults to emulate, only to be lured into industrialized fascism. They're chewed up and spit out as goons operating for the personal profit of a bourgeois landlord class.

Really depressing stuff. The myth of the primitive social tribe used to corrupt young men into becoming agents of post-modern wealth aggregation machine.

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

There were so many different 'primitive social' systems, that doubtless ( at least in my mind) operated in every imagineable way over the past 300K-150K years. Some worked better than others, some disappeared because there was some event (giant flood, wolf pack ate everyone, etc), and not because they were any less useful, or less functional.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I'm still bummed out by the degree to which "feeding young people into the kill-or-be-killed media machine" seems to be succeeding as an organizing principle.

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 4 points 12 hours ago

smae - it's never been a fav rubric. I'm always pumping the anarchisms, and 'if everybody wins, that means nobody loses' memes.

[–] irelephant@programming.dev 43 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The person who published that paper has spent so much of his life trying to inform people that it is flawed.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 25 points 1 day ago

And so many of the "how do you know what the author meant?" "I AM THE AUTHOR!"

[–] Pilferjinx@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

Trying to be alpha is such a beta thing to do.

[–] termaxima@programming.dev 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Wait until you hear about “Release Candidate Males” and “Emergency Hotfix Males” !

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 2 points 14 hours ago

Well eventually all males become EOL so there would be some steps in between alpha and that.

I hear there's a fair amount of abandonware males around as well.

[–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 day ago

And "oh fuck fuck fuck shit fuck oh no no no no, we need a database backup now!"-deployments. I don't like those.

[–] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When I hear someone say alpha/beta whatever my brain just goes to omegaverse hah

[–] Wilco@lemm.ee 14 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Alpha male? Beta male? Is there a Production model male as well?

[–] Coding4Fun@programming.dev 3 points 13 hours ago

Yep. The requirements are clear:

Be kind and respectful with everyone. Be accountable for your actions. Be honest and transparent about you expectations and intentions in any relationship.

That is it. But seems those are requirements hard to implement those days.

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yee, the production model is Pedro Pascal

That explains why my ex wife has the dude printed on a pillow sheet

Shit, those programmers are talented. Don't let any juniors anywhere near that.

[–] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That's what you would call people who feel secure in who they are.

[–] sep@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Even release models are flawed.. wait for the second patch atleast!