It makes more sense when we assume it’s software development terminology instead. Alpha means the software is immature and full of issues.
I am a release candidate male.
alpha
Submitted 5 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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pastel_de_airfryer@lemmy.eco.br 5 months ago
Psaldorn@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Hello ladies, I’m legacy code nobody wants to refactor and is being slowly converted into microservices.
TheFogan@programming.dev 5 months ago
I’m just a beta male… they doubt I’m ready for release… but I’m far more stable than any alpha male.
I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 5 months ago
What’s the difference between beta and release candidate?
EA doesn’t know either.
helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I too am a release candidate, but my marketing sucks.
Sylvartas@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I am a minimum viable product male
mitchty@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
I’m barely a proof of concept then. Or minimum viable product. 🙃
buddascrayon@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’m an old version male. I’m out of date but stable and used by people who generally know what they’re doing and I don’t want something new that’ll likely blow up in their face.
revlayle@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I am about v4.1 right now
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 months ago
I’m Concord.
Test_Tickles@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Well, I am a god damn mess as a person. So I’m like pre-alpha. I guess that makes me a proof of concept, or maybe even a thought exercise.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I think of myself as code-complete but not necessarily bug-free.
leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 5 months ago
I think I might be a vertical slice…
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Imagine if phrenology caught on as the latest pop-culture dipshit trend.
“My bumpy skull means I’m preternaturally predisposed to be polygamous and misogynist, and I’m just looking for a girl who has a compatible set of head bumps.”
“If you can’t handle me at my alimentivenest, you don’t deserve me at my inhabitivenest.”
fossilesque@mander.xyz 5 months ago
Well, I’ve got news for you: rollingstone.com/…/far-right-phrenology-physiogno…
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Clearly you’ve stayed away from 4chan and I commend you for it.
rtxn@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Isn’t that just sparkling racism?
merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
so I was in the UK’s largest chain bookstore (Waterstones) on Saturday and I found a phrenology cat
RobotToaster@mander.xyz 5 months ago
That’s the cutest pseudoscience I’ve ever seen.
drolex@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
2dolychocephalic4me
bitchkat@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Between RFK, Leon, and Trump the odds are pretty good of it coming back b
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
if our heads don’t slot together like lego pieces the relationship isn’t going to work out
leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 5 months ago
I’d get some good hammers and make a (possibly literal) killing as a retrophrenologist…
mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
- languages evolve, and the origin is nothing more than a curio today. People use the term “alpha” to mean a thing that exists in humans, even if it never did in wolves.
- this thing is called by the rest of the population “being and asshole” and as such i find the self identification of those people very usefull and time saving.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 months ago
Shut the fuck up, omega
No /s come at me mods
SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 5 months ago
tetris11@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Guys, can’t we all just get along. You’re upsetting the Gammas.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 5 months ago
Hhyeah yes Daddy Alpha, I’ll be quiet for you UwU~
BluesF@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Does it exist in humans, though? I’m fairly certain that it remains pseudoscientific in humans as well as wolves.Oh, wait, I read point two. I stand corrected.
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
To be more precise, Shenkel’s work was discredited by the collective efforts of numerous scientists studying wolf behaviour. Probably the most notable of these was David Mech. His book “The Wolf” was based on Shenkel’s work, and his own research on wolves in captivity, and was really the work that popularized the “alpha” nonsense in the public mind.
After numerous studies of wolves in the wild failed to bear out these conclusions, Mech later concluded that his work was wrong, and got The Wolf removed from publication.
PlexSheep@infosec.pub 5 months ago
Either you or OP wrote Schenkel wrong.
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
OP is correct
masterofn001@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Just remember:
An alpha release is unfit for public use, contains bugs, is untested, unrefined, and is likely to crash and may cause system wide issues.
An alpha is the first step, the very basic of basics, an infant in terms of development.
If anything, be an Omega man.
lunarul@lemmy.world 5 months ago
tetris11@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
masterofn001@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 5 months ago
So it’s Walter Masterson.
Got it.
Bonifratz@lemm.ee 5 months ago
As a lambda male, this doesn’t faze me at all.
hakunawazo@lemmy.world 5 months ago
pjwestin@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Peter Gibson, the guy who discovered non-celiac gluten sensitivity, retracted his own study a few years later, but it had already become a fad diet, so it just stuck. That being said, there have been some studies that seem to confirm its existence, but the evidence is pretty thin. (To be clear, celiac disease and wheat allergies are 100% proven and can be reliably tested for).
missgalvin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Screw alpha males, I’m an alpha woman with a thing for omega soft guys. 🥰
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Don’t “alpha males”, as they describe themselves, typically prefer submissive women?
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
Rudolf Schenkel (yes really)
What? What is weird about that name? Maybe I’m too German native speaker to get this.
Utter_Karate@hexbear.net 5 months ago
I’m an alpha male. If you study me in captivity I will display downright unnatural behavior.
nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Alpha, beta, sigma, all just types of prison bitch. Scientifically speaking.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 5 months ago
If you were a (regressive, anti-science) female that believed this, wouldn’t you have to be a “beta” wolf in this fictional world?
Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 5 months ago
The dude from the Scorpions also studies wolves??
No wait, that’s Rudolf Schenker.
Caesium@lemmy.world 5 months ago
the study is so stupid for anyone who takes it seriously. I however enjoy the tag it birthed on Ao3
Stonewyvvern@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Carrots improve eyesight…nah, just military misinformation that is now a staple for parents to get their kids to eat their carrots
BoxedFenders@hexbear.net 5 months ago
I wonder if this discourse sounds hilarious to a Greek person wondering why Angloids keep referring to themselves by letters of their alphabet.
TheDoctor@hexbear.net 5 months ago
zephorah@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Someone needs to tell all the authors involved in the wave of trash urban fantasy books that flooded the market a while back, using this to write werewolves. (True Blood, etc.)
Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world 5 months ago
There are species that do have leader types in the social hierarchies though. Gorillas for example, or orcas.
58008@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’ve heard this debunk a lot over the years, and I don’t disbelieve it, but is it not the case that one or two animals (wolves or otherwise) in a group will be the “bosses” or something close to being dominant over the others? Is all of that internal power struggling we see in groups/families of animals not really what it seems? Or is the “alpha” stuff different from that? Or does it only apply to wolves, and “alphas” do exist in other animal species?
Yours, confused and uneducated,
u/58008
Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
TIL!
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Did Schenkel deliberately make that alpha shit up (which would justify calling his paper “bogus”) or was he just bad at research?
anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
I’m an alpha male: barely able to keep myself running and likely to completely break down if I encounter an edge case my designers did not forsee.
MajorHavoc@programming.dev 5 months ago
I’m a Google Beta.
I am effectively immortal, but I will probably someday disappear without notice.
If_Its_Kitsch_I_Sits@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Don’t worry, your features “will be incorporated in future releases of our latest chat client and our Gmail.”
TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I was stable release several years ago. Now I have security issues but some folks still think I’m awesome.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Just try not to leave the few remaining people who depend on you, up shit creek. Get a will.
troyunrau@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Damn, too early of a release eh?
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 5 months ago
And not suitable for public release, obviously
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I also have a memory leak.
someguy3@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Limited release to the world.