I’m an alpha male: barely able to keep myself running and likely to completely break down if I encounter something I’m not prepared to deal with.
I’m a Google Beta.
I am effectively immortal, but I will probably someday disappear without notice.
Don’t worry, your features “will be incorporated in future releases of our latest chat client and our Gmail.”
I was stable release several years ago. Now I have security issues but some folks still think I’m awesome.
Just try not to leave the few remaining people who depend on you, up shit creek. Get a will.
They’ll leave a promise that other people will fill the roles they used to without any current plan to do so.
I’m a beta-lactam antibiotic.
Good for many tasks, but rapidly becoming useless.
Damn, too early of a release eh?
And not suitable for public release, obviously
I also have a memory leak.
Limited release to the world.
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.
Hello ladies, I’m legacy code nobody wants to refactor and is being slowly converted into microservices.
I’m just a beta male… they doubt I’m ready for release… but I’m far more stable than any alpha male.
What’s the difference between beta and release candidate?
EA doesn’t know either.
I too am a release candidate, but my marketing sucks.
I am a minimum viable product male
I’m barely a proof of concept then. Or minimum viable product. 🙃
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 I’m out of date but stable and used by people who generally know what they’re doing and don’t want something new that’ll likely blow up in their face.
I’m Concord. Only out for a week and then swept under the rug like I never existed.
I am about v4.1 right now
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.
I think of myself as code-complete but not necessarily bug-free.
I think I might be a vertical slice…
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.”
Well, I’ve got news for you: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/far-right-phrenology-physiognomy-spread-hate-1234808413/
Clearly you’ve stayed away from 4chan and I commend you for it.
Isn’t that just sparkling racism?
so I was in the UK’s largest chain bookstore (Waterstones) on Saturday and I found a phrenology cat
That’s the cutest pseudoscience I’ve ever seen.
2dolychocephalic4me
Between RFK, Leon, and Trump the odds are pretty good of it coming back b
if our heads don’t slot together like lego pieces the relationship isn’t going to work out
I’d get some good hammers and make a (possibly literal) killing as a retrophrenologist…
- 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.
Shut the fuck up, omega
No /s come at me mods
(Not really though)
Guys, can’t we all just get along. You’re upsetting the Gammas.
I’m Zeta Maxx
Hhyeah yes Daddy Alpha, I’ll be quiet for you UwU~
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.
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.
Either you or OP wrote Schenkel wrong.
OP is correct
As a lambda male, this doesn’t faze me at all.
Oh, hi Gordon.
I am the hope of the omniverse
I am the lightbulb in the darkness
I am the bacon in the fridge for all living things that cry out in hunger
I am the alpha and the amiga
I am the terror that flaps in the night
I am Son Goku and I am a Super Saiyan!
Get in there and eat that horse!
I, too, love Haskell
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.
Ultimate power move: be both.
The Omega you want to be
The Omega you actually are
The omegaman you want to be
The omegaman you are
This is fun. Let’s play more.
(You’re on!)
The Omega you want to be:
The Omega you are:
The omega you want to be
The omega you are
(nice pivot, but I gotta go with what I know!)
The omega you want to be:
The omega you are:
So it’s Walter Masterson.
Got it.
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).
However, the gluten-free fad diet was actually incredibly beneficial for sufferers of celiac desease because it made gluten-free products so mainstream and really expanded what pre-made foods and snacks they can buy in stores.
Sometimes, I have a friend with celiac who often sees “gluten free°” on menus to look down at the bottom of the menu and see “°not for people with gluten sensitivities”
He calls it “Becky gluten free” because Becky doesn’t know what gluten is but she doesn’t want it in her body.
My dad joined a local celiac group in the early 2000s not long after his sister developed celiac through pregnancy and his doctor suggested he start the diet out of an abundance of caution. At the time there were about 10 people in the group local to a city of ~250k. They’d swap menu hacks to get safe(ish) food while out and about and trade recipes. Then some specialty stores started carrying more safe stuff as the fad was starting to gain traction and it definitely went mainstream when mainstream groceries and restaurants started officially offering safe options. Needless to say, that gluten-free diet support group no longer exists.
Most interestingly, his other sister tested negative on the celiac blood test and neither I nor my dad have ever had that test done, so there’s a good chance we’re in the clear after all.
I can’t remember now why I felt compelled to share this, or how it tied into your comment but I hope it’s at least interesting!
Not really though, because it led to many places and cooks not taking it that seriously. Becky won’t have any idea there’s a little gluten on the knife and cutting board, but a person with celiac definitely would.
True, although I met a girl with celiac early in the gluten-free fad who claimed that she couldn’t trust a lot of restaurants’ gluten-free options because a lot of them weren’t actually gluten-free. Restaurants were just chasing a trend that they didn’t fully understand. Things are much better now, but I think early on a lot of restaurants were treating gluten-free like the Atkins or Paleo diet, not an allergy.
A lot of people’s gluten sensitivity is actually a sensitivity to glysophates.
