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@slim.bsky.social

Pidgin algebraist, baseball influencer https://slim.computer

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"I just preferred the pacing of the book. The main character's arc felt a lot more believable," I say, taking another huge bite of my Uncrustable as my interlocutor nods on appreciatively

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I started furiously listening to Mayday on repeat bc my (Taiwanese) mom commented that my accent has gotten more PRC-sounding. But now whenever she says anything to me I respond by belting out 「那一天 那一刻那個場景/你出現在我生命～」 and she thinks I'm doing a stereotype. Does anyone have advice?

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LAX gate 52 ("the Eagle's nest") was clearly conceived as a malediction against heap allocation. They ran out of space in the terminals proper, so "gate" 52 is actually a bus through utter no man's land to an abject satellite building with subscripted gates 52A-52I

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World Series Game 1: Dodgers @ Blue Jays (W, 11-4) We recently got a television off Marketplace Zuckerberg. The main challenge is remembering to look at the screen, because I'll be focused on my scoresheet while listening attentively to the announcers and then forget to actually watch.

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Somehow I accidentally spawned a copy of the game in picture-in-picture, and I didn't notice for 3 innings (due to not looking at the screen) until Truf walked in and said "why does the game have a second, smaller version of itself playing in the corner" anyways, let's go baseball!!!!!

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I'm not a functional programmer because of the company I work for; I'm a functional programmer because of the company that allowed me to broadcast 140-character pseudorandom neuron-firings to the only people who would get them, and which has devolved into a fash hellscape bizarrely obsessed with IQ

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I've done a bad job posting here, because it's sort of become the nothingburger estuary for my interests: Mastodon has more PL weenies, Twitter has more chatter overall (even though half of it is insipid and I'm also effectively shadowbanned by virtue of not paying a monthly tithe to Elon Musk)

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I miss when Shriram would reply to someone while forgetting to set "reply" and then everyone would just dunk on it, and I also miss when the community could have any sort of interesting discussion in public but also somewhat insulated from unserious trolls/onlookers

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I really do think West Side Story is the superlative American composition of the 20th century, and I am ordinarily not into musicals or even vocals. I've spent probably thousands of hours listening to the score, and I still grow verklempt from Bernstein's passion and harmonic creativity every time

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I really do think West Side Story is the superlative American composition of the 20th century, and I am ordinarily not into musicals or even vocals. I've spent probably thousands of hours listening to the score, and I still grow verklempt from Bernstein's passion and harmonic creativity every time

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I saw the late Michael Morgan conduct the music from West Side Story with the Oakland Symphony and four remarkable soloists, two years before his passing. It was far from perfectly polished, yet utterly rapturous nonetheless, perhaps my favorite classical concert ever? "Tonight" was triumphant:

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AI-based frontend development has the same problems as Dreamweaver-era WYSIWYG editors: you're supposed to be able to manually edit the HTML, but in practice you absolutely cannot because each seemingly-innocuous change produces fifty <span>&nbsp;</span> elements and invisible tables under the hood

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I went to a baseball game alone on Friday night, and it was the most fun I've had in recent memory!! I found a great ticket on last-minute resale. Brought my radio and scored the entire game listening to the broadcast with one earbud in. Giants won, and there was a Pokémon drone show afterwards!

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people often ask me why i’m into this stuff and how it helps software development, and like… i don’t know if it does? i’m not doing it for any practical purpose. i just think it’s a privilege to visit the infinite land

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Would I enjoy Cyberpunk 2077 if I love exploring vast open worlds, especially urban ones, but don't particularly care about combat or getting tons of weapons? In BotW/TotK I just explored a lot and often avoided combat situations until I was OP enough for them

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FWIW even though I'm squarely in the Nintendo target audience, I don't think I am particularly averse to violence or darker themes, but neither do they "get me going" the way it seems they do for a lot of Western gamers

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I really wish the dominant ethos of expository materials was less "here's why topic X is actually super simple" and more of "you—yes, you!—are capable of understanding difficult things"