"The Social Network" is to a notable extent a work of fiction and construes a Zuckerberg that doesn't really resemble the real one rather than an amalgamation of nerd-rage projected on to a fictional Mark Zuckerberg.

The movie is ever so slightly flawed in that way and does stretch the one or other trope a little too hard when observed in isolation ("crazy bitch", "angry wounded nerd", "loudmouth silicon valley investor" etc.) but those are _all_ placed and played in service of the story and its telling and that is flat-out epic. Every single part right down to single-scene appearances are cast to the T and deliver an unbelievable performance, the pacing is flawless, the character dynamic is a masterpiece, every single word of dialog punches above its weight, the score is breathtaking and the camera-work is top tier.

It's definitely a masterpiece of a movie and Fincher (and Sorkin) knocked this one out of the park and into geo-stationary orbit, there is no two ways about that.

One of the penultimate scenes is a rage scene that Fincher shot 99 (ninetynine!) times and edited it out of 114 different adjacent takes. It's flat-out epic and one of the iconic scenes in movie history and generally regarded as the "best rage scene ever". This just to illustrate the obnoxious attention to detail and borderline autistic aim for perfection by Fincher. It shows in the entire movie.

It only won two oscars because the reviewers where overwelmed by the topic, otherwise it would've scored higher.

You definitely missed out. Watch it. As a special occasion. You won't be disappointed, that's a promise.

... but I'd rather have movie itself directed by Fincher. They both collaborate very closely and AFAIK are good friends, but I don't see _anyone_ coming close to dialog movies directed by Fincher. He's basically his own league as a film director and just about anybody who knows anything about films agrees on that.

You mean games run faster on an actual operating system than a piece of software specifically designed to be slow, buggy and cumbersome in order to regularly help sell new versions of it along with hardware with ever increasing power levels? ...
No waaaaay!

... mandatory paid vacation for full time jobs and fully wealth-transfer funded basic healthcare. You know, like every other first world country on the planet. How's that for a plan?

They often suffer silently.

They are also more common than you think, especially today. I should know, because I was one, back in the 80ies and early 90ies when the term actually carried some meaning, unlike today where rampant femnoise and misandry have perverted the term beyond recognition. I'll just copy-paste my standard PSA on the topic here to offer some more broader less contemporary-dimwitt-mainstream-media-bullshit perspective. You might find this helpful.

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PSA: Incel, definition

Incel (involuntary celebate) is a gender neutral term. Coined by an incel woman(!). The largest group of Incels handicapped and/or disfigured people, followed by people with non-hetero-normal sexual orientation, then followed by heterosexual men, the vast overwhelming majority of which aren't misogynists but timid, shy, intimidated by women and/or the mating game and - often as a result - depressed.

To emphasize: Noisemakers on the internet aren't representative of Incels, despite what the misinformed public or some dimwitts on reddit think about the term.

Please stop perpetuating this ill-informed misrepresentation of Incels at large.

Thank you.

Brother seems a good bet. I got one similar (same model?) to the current Brother HL-L2400DWE.
And stock up on toner cartridges, so you're still good if they discontinue the model.

More or less.

I'm your Type A 80ies computer-kid and switching my career to becoming a full-time web-developer in 2000 was one of the best decisions I ever made. The last 25 years were awesome, I had a great time and made made decent money, even if I didn't get rich.

However, I see the writing on the wall. The bots are here and they're taking over and social media IMHO has always been a total PoS and it ain't getting better. Slashdot is the only thing that comes close to that for me and I've been here for 25 years which is quite a run. I'll stay around, but that's only a small part of my day.

I'm glad I have all the skills I could ever ask for in handling computers and digital devices and I'm also glad I basically can do _everything_ I would ever want to do with a computer myself and on a professional level. Designing, programing, video-editing, sound-editing, 3D, DTP, print, typography, etc. all with todays offerings of FOSS. But I also see that there is less and less need for my services in the real world, at an increasing rate and of the new stuff, from social media and online ads onward right up to todays generative and conversational AI there is nothing really there that interests me where I see a full-on day job coming out of it. It's all more of an all-out replacement of my kind.

On top of that I see the "loneliness epidemic" running rampant outside of my nerdy peer group and the real world increasingly becoming somewhat of an exception for a growing number of people.

As far as I can see it is due time for me to focus more and more on non-digital things. The last few years my non-fiction reading has moved from IT stuff to social skills and modern psychology (authentic relating, radical honesty, attachment style theory, mindfulness, etc.) and my pastime activities are all IRL (paragliding, kite-surfing, traveling, social dancing, meeting with non-IT peope such as motorbike clubs and boardgamers, etc.).

The prospect of more and more AI taking over as partners also makes hanging out online way less attractive IMHO. I will still be running my blogs and websites and helping people with digital stuff, but the party clearly is with real face-to-face human interaction now, the IT stuff has taken the place of little more than a sophisticated cultural technique and stopped being a day-job for me.

While I did get lucky and scored a good job as a sole IT expert and senior developer in a company of 70+ legal experts and lawyers, I do expect my job to go extinct in the foreseeable future and really don't see myself sitting at a desk typing and clicking for money. Those times have passed and I'm likely better off being a barista, dancing coach or travel guide in the future.

It is my impression that quite a few of my fellow IT experts see things more or less the same way.

For all my paper notebook needs I'm more than covered by Leuchtturm and Muji.
Leuchtturm for the german premium quality spin on the Moleskine-type of notebook. Notebooks don't get any better than Leuchtturm IMHO. Once you've gone from Moleskine to Leuchtturm you don't go back.

For more affordable options I use Muji as my go-to brand.

Best of all: Both brands are also prefectly city-snob/hippster compliant and go perfectly well with Freitag or Crumpler messenger bags, lumberjack shirts and the smug 'I don't give a f*ck' attitude if that happens to be a requirement. And Leuchtturm will make you officially and ISO-certified more hippster than any Moleskine person present. 8-)

The OceanGate disaster was a long time coming and the string of ignorant, stupid, neglectful and flat-out malicious decisions that lead there is a staggering and breathtaking example of dumbass dimwitts with way to powerful tools for their own (and others) good screwing up epic-style. And dying and taking others with them in the process.

The most absurd thing about this all is that mini-subs going to such depths is basically a solved problem a few times over. Even James Cameron who isn't even a sub engineer but has solid experience with this type of exploration stunt pitched in and noted that it might be a really dumb and dangerous idea to use composites for this sort of thing. As did many engineers and experts in the field. And just about any 10th-grader with some cursory interest in engineering could've told them too. Camerons bubble that he took down to the bottom of the mariana trench was thick solid acrylic glass, custom manufactured to handle the crushing pressure. Given, that depth was a completely different ballgame, but humanity has a solid fleet of subs that can go 4000m deep and building on that sort of know-how for a safe and solid tourist sub with room for rich people wanting some excitement would've been completely doable. And reasonably safe too.

This disaster was totally preventable. What a waste and what a shame.

... devops and eventually pay the price.

You'd think the l33t coders at Google would have this little basic truth deeply engrained in their genes. Humans doing human stuff I guess.
At least they did make a decent rollback happen.

... And wuttthefuk is there to research? This "phenomenon" has been common knowledge for decades, since the 90ies for sure, for anyone dealing with email spam. The mx admins even have a technical term for it: backscatter.

Isn't it cute when the kids today "discover" the internet? Like calling 2015 "the early days of the web" (no joke). LOL.

It's a very good question. It looks like it was mainly failures to generate a result within a predetermined time. Some of the failures were due to cryostat hardware failures (a fridge went out during a NIST campus closure); some due to fiber + interferometer polarization drifts; and so on. It also appears that [perhaps?] a few of the misses are due to latencies in the timetaggers to record a common timebase. I can't quite tell from the arXived version of the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.052...

All in all, it's a marvelously good overview of the impressive experiment!

... which just ditched MS for software in public service. The northerns are the most reasonable when it comes to public service IT. (For context: I live in Germany and they're both to the north :-) )

Not next generation. And people did notice.

It's also happening tomorrow, according to the summary. Hmmmmmmm...