Nick Benecke
@nickbenecke.bsky.social
A brilliant writer trapped inside the mind and body of a terrible writer. https://nickbenecke.wordpress.com/
Got a new story up - with hand drawn artwork by me!
Rubber Duck Coding: It's Dea's first day at a new coding gig and he screws up. Badly. Armed only with a rubber duck, he needs to work out how to stop billions of people from being affected by a global bug he created.
Rubber Duck Coding: It's Dea's first day at a new coding gig and he screws up. Badly. Armed only with a rubber duck, he needs to work out how to stop billions of people from being affected by a global bug he created.
Rubber Duck Coding
‘I think I accidentally deployed code to production.’ Dea said to the rubber duck. ‘This could be bad.’ The rubber duck sat inanimate. ‘I should tell someone.’ The rubber duck agreed.
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January 9, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Got a new story up - with hand drawn artwork by me!
Rubber Duck Coding: It's Dea's first day at a new coding gig and he screws up. Badly. Armed only with a rubber duck, he needs to work out how to stop billions of people from being affected by a global bug he created.
Rubber Duck Coding: It's Dea's first day at a new coding gig and he screws up. Badly. Armed only with a rubber duck, he needs to work out how to stop billions of people from being affected by a global bug he created.
Good piece by Nicole Hegarty on the recently de-classified 2004 archive: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...
We pored over the newly unsealed 2004 cabinet files. Here's what stood out
Hundreds of previously secret cabinet records have been made public in the National Archives' annual release.
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January 1, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Good piece by Nicole Hegarty on the recently de-classified 2004 archive: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...
After watching the Secret Level episode about Concord, I can see why the game was axed.
December 21, 2024 at 12:30 PM
After watching the Secret Level episode about Concord, I can see why the game was axed.
Dr Doom says the quiet part out loud. What good are rights if people can just take them away?
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Dr Doom says the quiet part out loud. What good are rights if people can just take them away?
The Handmaid’s Tale is composed so well, written so powerfully, that I need frequent breaks to process the scene I’ve just read.
December 3, 2024 at 2:39 AM
The Handmaid’s Tale is composed so well, written so powerfully, that I need frequent breaks to process the scene I’ve just read.
Given these tech businesses can’t meaningfully grow their user bases anymore (saturation), and the ad revenues just aren’t there like they used to be (market wisdom), it’s got me wondering: are AI products just well-marketed vapour-ware to get investor money?
Amazon, Google and Meta are ‘pillaging culture, data and creativity’ to train AI, Australian inquiry finds
Amazon, Google and Meta are ‘pillaging culture, data and creativity’ to train AI, Australian inquiry finds
Among the report’s 13 recommendations is the call for the introduction of standalone AI legislation and protections for creative workers
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Tech companies Amazon, Google and Meta have been criticised by a Senate select committee inquiry for being especially vague over how they used Australian data to train their powerful artificial intelligence products.
Labor senator Tony Sheldon, the inquiry’s chair, was frustrated by the multinationals’ refusal to answer direct questions about their use of Australians’ private and personal information.
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November 27, 2024 at 9:54 AM
Given these tech businesses can’t meaningfully grow their user bases anymore (saturation), and the ad revenues just aren’t there like they used to be (market wisdom), it’s got me wondering: are AI products just well-marketed vapour-ware to get investor money?
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#Exclusive: Trump’s transition team is planning for all cabinet picks to receive sweeping security clearances from Trump and only face FBI background checks after the incoming administration takes over the bureau and its own officials are installed, according to people familiar with the matter.
Trump officials to receive immediate clearances and easier FBI vetting
Exclusive: president-elect’s team planning for background checks to occur only after administration takes over bureau
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November 26, 2024 at 10:43 AM
#Exclusive: Trump’s transition team is planning for all cabinet picks to receive sweeping security clearances from Trump and only face FBI background checks after the incoming administration takes over the bureau and its own officials are installed, according to people familiar with the matter.
Anyone else still have a Wii U?
November 24, 2024 at 9:42 PM
Anyone else still have a Wii U?
Re-watching Lower Decks got me inspired to try DS9 - never seen it, and I know nothing about it -
November 24, 2024 at 7:30 AM
Re-watching Lower Decks got me inspired to try DS9 - never seen it, and I know nothing about it -
Dyslexic Greek restaurateur in the best shape of his life. He’s been smashing Pilates.
November 22, 2024 at 10:24 AM
Dyslexic Greek restaurateur in the best shape of his life. He’s been smashing Pilates.