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alojapan.com/1332953/big-drop- Big drop in tourist tax-free spending signals sluggish days ahead for Japan #Ahead #big #days #Drop #Japan #JapanTourism #Signals #sluggish #spending #TaxFree #tourism #tourist TOKYO — Japanese department store sales have been slowing in recent months amid signs that one well-heeled segment of shoppers is losing its appetite for lavish spending, partly due to the knock-on effects of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff blitz. In June, departm

alojapan.com/1332542/big-drop- Big drop in tourist tax-free spending signals sluggish days ahead for Japan #Ahead #big #days #Drop #Japan #JapanTourism #Signals #sluggish #spending #TaxFree #tourism #tourist TOKYO — Japanese department store sales have been slowing in recent months amid signs that one well-heeled segment of shoppers is losing its appetite for lavish spending, partly due to the knock-on effects of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff blitz. In June, departm

At a bar and need help? Order an "Angel shot".

-"with lime" means call the police.

- "on the rocks" means you need a taxi called.

- "neat" means you need an escort to your car.

You can also ask for Angela, as in "is Angela working tonight?"

See also the "help me" hand gesture: beige.party/@amiserabilist/114

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But we can simplify this.

I'm not putting finished effects into standalone metal #boxes at this point; I'm #experimenting, not producing a product. So I have a simple #modular system I cooked up to connect arbitrary effects #experiments together. One of the things it does is handle the power-supply stuff, so each effect board doesn't need to do any of that. It just receives a nice 0V and buffered #Vcc (9V) it can rely on, along with a buffered 4.5V to use as a #bias voltage when AC coupling #signals, since this is a single-supply system.

So we can chop out all the power stuff from the schematic, which fills basically a ninth of the image - divide it into 3 rows and 3 columns, like the Brady Bunch intro, and the left-middle square is basically the power section.

But there's a bigger chunk we can strip out. Boss (and many other) pedals of the era frequently used "soft switching" to enable / disable the effect while playing. If you go back in time, real physical #switches were used, so the signal was actually totally disconnected from the effects circuitry when in the "off" position. This is called "true #bypass", as opposed to the soft switching.

#Soft #switching involves having two signal paths through the effect. One applies the characteristic effect, and the other basically just buffers the signal and bypasses the rest of the effect stuff. This is implemented with transistors and latches.

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BOJ survey signals resilience in Japanese business mood

TOKYO — Business sentiment among large Japanese manufacturers improved for the first time in two quarters in the April-June period, according to the latest survey by the country’s central bank. The Bank of Japan on Tuesday released its quarterly Tank…
#Japan #JP #JapanNews #boj #business #Japanese #Japanesenews #mood #news #résilience #Signals #Survey
alojapan.com/1310838/boj-surve

alojapan.com/1310838/boj-surve BOJ survey signals resilience in Japanese business mood #boj #business #Japan #JapanNews #Japanese #JapaneseNews #mood #news #résilience #Signals #Survey TOKYO — Business sentiment among large Japanese manufacturers improved for the first time in two quarters in the April-June period, according to the latest survey by the country’s central bank. The Bank of Japan on Tuesday released its quarterly Tankan survey, with the headline diffusion ind…

okay fedi, i finally caught up a little on the #cc #creativecommons #signals thing.

so like... there just isn't going to be a CC-NFAI (No Fucking AI) option? CC's idea of being proactive is helplessly embracing this shit and then asking the owners of AI scrapers to pretty please give credit and maybe some money based on *their* financial means? I wouldn't say this to a fellow human under normal circumstances but with respect to AI scrapers, how about fuck your financial means, you should have asked the price before you stole my shit?

Also, maybe I'm misunderstanding the whole thing, so feel free to clarify anything I stated incorrectly.

creativecommons.org/2025/06/25

creativecommons.org/ai-and-the

creativecommons.org/ai-and-the

Creative Commons · Introducing CC Signals: A New Social Contract for the Age of AI - Creative CommonsCC Signals © 2025 by Creative Commons is licensed under CC BY 4.0 Creative Commons (CC) today announces the public kickoff of the CC signals project, a new preference signals framework designed to increase reciprocity and sustain a creative commons in the age of AI. The development of CC signals represents a major step forward…