• kamen@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I’m a software developer. For me, “alpha” means somethings that’s still buggy, unfinished and unfit for wide availability.

    • JATth@lemmy.world
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      12 hours ago

      I’m a hobby software developer and a fan of reading a lot of about physics. To me, “alpha” means an highly unstable configuation with massive amount of over optimistic excitement and just one wrong nudge will have catastrohic emmission of high energy photons and sounds. But it all decays away eventually and reaches stable state. xD

    • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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      12 hours ago

      Wrong. Beta means that. Alpha means “set everything on fire.”

      I’m not saying that you’re wrong. I’m saying we have different definitions. Cheers!

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        21 hours ago

        I’m a physicist. To me, alpha is highly dangerous but is incapable of penetrating the human body. Seems to check out