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Slack thread in #all-water-cooler: this past weekend some friends invited me to watch the first game of the world series, in part so i could learn how to watch baseball.

they kept recommending a slide deck which explained how the game worked, made by "some rando on the internet".
this is what they shared with me:
https://slim.computer/assets/teaching/ baseball.pdf

at first i thought maybe this deck was made by some other person who happened to call themselves "slim lim".
but after a few slides i was convinced it was made by our own @sliminal and eerie.

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New blug: feeling like I’ve gotten better at conceptualizing and worse at verbalizing over time

I don’t know how this works for everyone else, so here’s an example: suppose I’m engaged in a back-and-forth with a knowledgeable interlocutor on a reasonably nuanced topic, say, baseball or the desired behavior of a particular programming language construct or why a particular person we both know behaves the way they do. Or suppose I’m reading a blog post that lays out a multifaceted argument in favor of some proposal. As soon as I understand what the person is saying (which is very much not a given), an entire response—enthusiastic partial agreement, hesitant elaboration, and multi-subpoint refutation framed by indignation—materializes all at once within my body in pre-linguistic form, and I feel overwhelmed trying to even capture it for myself, let alone convey it to another party. In practice, this usually manifests as me staring into space while speaking comically slowly, or stammering and replacing words with noises which, to me, capture the underlying emotion and therefore both denotation and connotation, but to everyone else just sound like noises. A far cry from the supposedly “articulate” communication my teachers once commended!

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I take everything really seriously, by this definition :)

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Nintendo .DS_Store @slim.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

@danabra.mov relevant to your interests types.pl/@markusde@ma...

types.pl

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Happy to :) it's a beautiful tradition, I hope it never dies out fully!

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Nintendo .DS_Store @slim.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

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!!!!!

Nintendo .DS_Store @slim.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

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.

Scorebook filled out in pencil for the Toronto Blue Jays' (Yesavage) 11-4 win at home over the Los Angeles Dodgers (Snell) in Game 1 of the 2025 World Series, October 24. The Dodgers took an early lead in the 2nd and 3rd inning on a series of walks and singles, until the Jays' center fielder Varsho tied the game with a two-run home run in the 4th. The score remained even until the top of the 6th, when the Dodgers' starting pitcher Snell loaded the bases with no outs on a walk, hit, and hit by pitch. This prompted a Dodgers bullpen implosion, allowing the Blue Jays to score 9 runs in the 6th inning across 12 plate appearances. Notably, the Jays' Addison Barger accomplished the first pinch-hit grand slam in World Series history during this inning.

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Nintendo .DS_Store @slim.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

My work laptop just force-updated to macOS Tahoe and it's an enormous blast from the past because I once used Glasklart on my jailbroken iPod touch

Nintendo .DS_Store @slim.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

wait how is Rino skating third????

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Nintendo .DS_Store @slim.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

I just "fuck yeah"ed like I've never "fuck yeah"ed before

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Nintendo .DS_Store @slim.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

WiFi didn't work on the flight home, so I had no choice but to spend seven hours listening to West Side Story (1961 and 2009 cast recordings obvi) ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

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Satnam Singh @satnam6502.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

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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The video recording of my ICFP 2025 keynote talk Functional Programming for Hardware Design is up on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oBO...

youtube.com

[ICFP/SPLASH'25] Orchid Plenary Ballroom - ICFP Papers and Events (Oct 13th)

YouTube video by ACM SIGPLAN

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The actual problem is that I have approx. 40 people I enjoy talking to and hearing from, so losing touch with 1/3 of them represents a huge contraction in my social environment

IATA classifies coconuts (specifically the inside meat, copra) as a combustion risk; umbrellas are pokey weapon-shaped; I believe India specifically scrutinizes spice mixes to rule out explosives?

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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'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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In retrospect, it's not clear how much of my post-COVID depression stemmed from social distancing as such versus the demise of PL Twitter

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I miss PL Twitter so much. There has truly been no replacement. We're fragmented now across three websites, and it sucks!!

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Gone but never forgotten (to the extent it was ever known in the first place…)

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My strongest-held opinion is that everyone should have a few pieces of art that immediately send their souls to Mars. This is the privilege of being human, to dance with the sublime.

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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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Nintendo .DS_Store @slim.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

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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minus the grousing in the middle and the statement about the Dodger dog, I think I've made literally every remark in this video

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Nintendo .DS_Store @slim.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

A lifetime of media underrepresentation has left me wholly unprepared for this moment. My head is spinning; I don't know how to respond

Nintendo .DS_Store @slim.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

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> </span> elements and invisible tables under the hood

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Nintendo .DS_Store @slim.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Is this order WS-based? Kinda surprised

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Yeah I fell off the pitch tracking after awhile bc the at-bats were shorter and there was so much action

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I'm furiously catching up between innings as it is! Thank you Rob Manfred………

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This is Slim's Law: in the limit, every mainstream social hobby becomes a solo activity demanding intense concentration and specialized notation.

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Unfortunately I had such a great time that now, attending games with (less intense) friends presents an opportunity cost to scoring from the good seats…

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