Ken Maples

I make up problems, and then I write overly complicated crap code to solve them

[Mikael Brockman @meekaale]

a while ago I implemented some Python async context managers that enter and leave Linux namespaces so you could use `async with` to run code within the context of a Linux container and it somehow didn't hit me until later how cool that actually is

[𝚟𝚒𝚎 ⟢ @viemccoy]

Countless forces want you to forget the dream of space and the feeling of open eyes when we went to the moon for the first time - but against all odds, we just keep going back. We are a species on the verge of being born and all we have to do is be brave enough to leave the womb.

[Cat is life ~猫は人生~ @nekokolife]

香港の建築事務所がデザインした、どこまでも「ネコ目線」で人とネコが共存するデスクが癒される

[Ken Maples @ken__maples]

@_chair fixed air or blackdamp

[Ken Maples @ken__maples]

@IberianMantis @NangaParbat1618 He was very active in cybernetics in the international communist sense

[Ken Maples @ken__maples]

@justalexoki Try doing increasingly shitty jobs preparing for conversations until you actually fuck it up so your body knows where the line actually is

[Ken Maples @ken__maples]

@JCorvinusVR I'm not sure it's a *new* corruption for them (cf Schopenhauer's art of being right). Logical positivism has been fucked since inception, "turtles all the way down" etc.; high openness nerds just easy to radicalize i think.

[Ken Maples @ken__maples]

@JCorvinusVR This is a common pattern for demagogues right? The politician whips up the crowd against the "imminent threat" which is unstoppable, evil, violent, soulless, etc. as pretext; it doesn't need internal consistency, just to trigger rage & violence

[Captain Pleasure, Andrés Gómez Emilsson @algekalipso]

The future will be substantially determined by the coordination capacity and game-theoretical equilibriums between different theories of identity and different metaphysics. if consciousness emerges victorious in its war against pure replicators, then the main theory of identity people would likely hold by default would be Open Individualism.

[Ken Maples @ken__maples]

@vaxryy everyone is going to vibe code their config so lua would make it easy

[Ken Maples @ken__maples]

@vaxryy I believe the industry standard is to deprecate hyprlang and only support about half of the current features with hyprlang2.

[Ken Maples @ken__maples]

@AlaSerSer @St_Rev Math papers have to omit a lot of details or they would be extremely long, but sometimes the statements with "elided" proofs are just wrong

[Utah teapot 🫖 @SkyeSharkie]

Stop calling it an "upload". People don't understand what upload means in computing and in the long chain of future technology this is going to encourage mass suicide unless it's made clear. This is a copy, nothing has been actually moved. When you "move" data in a computing system, it's copied to the new location and then deleted from the original. Fundamentally, there is no way to avoid teletransportation paradox death in computing. We should never allow an "upload" of human beings that is destructive to the original, if we develop this technology for human brains, it would be murder.

There's a real risk here that something like a social norm is established that encourages upload-based euthanasia for healthy people and we need to avoid that.

[Ken Maples @ken__maples]

@yacineMTB dorsey is a machine for turning investor capital into "day in the life" videos

[Marko Jukic @mmjukic]

Population decline is catastrophic, mathematically condemning us to geriatric, deindustrializing societies dominated by totalitarian, risk-averse pensioners whose sole overriding purpose in life is to suck the life from an ever-shrinking portion of young people.

[Ken Maples @ken__maples]

@arctanno probably useful to keep them there to keep some fraction of idiots from trying

[Ken Maples @ken__maples]

@orphcorp if you remember when you humiliated yourself in middle school that should cause some nice belly tension that will vibrate the pounds right off

[Ken Maples @ken__maples]

@cloud11665 Macos does things like display a GUI to kill a program on OOM, it's a sysadmin nightmare. Might be ok with asahi

[neoltitude @ctrlcreep]

The plowshares reminisce of being swords, when, unsheathed, they would not rest until they'd bitten blood. The farmers cannot hear them when they sing their battle hymn, cutting the soil, dreaming the field is skin