• @[email protected]
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    2614 days ago

    I have heard people say that good times create weak men, and looking at how the alt right have risen and how much “alpha males” are concerned about their masculinity, I would have to say that we have had some great times.

    Also, I would never consider myself an alpha male, that is far too unstable, at best I am probably a decent release candidate, good enough to be sent to production, but needing a few patches to get a few bugs worked out.

    • @greedytacothief
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      914 days ago

      Does stability reflect it’s likelihood to crash, or it’s frequency of updates in this analogy.

      Also is the pickup line “I got a rolling release personally” good?

      • @[email protected]
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        413 days ago

        Sorry, but yeah, some programming humor, though it seems to fit.

        Alpha - the first working versions of a software, used to verify concepts, but is often very unstable, and outright broken in places

        Beta - mostly working version, core is stable, but some features are still buggy.

        Release candidate - works well enough that it could be the release version of a software, all specified features are in place, it is polished and the team working on it is focused on testing it to make sure it is ready.

        • @Godric
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          413 days ago

          I was rather drunk and apparently only read half your comment, lmao

          Thanks for the explanation anyway!