Japan will be the most impacted by a global tourist-service labor shortfall, according to a new report, with a 29% gap forecast in the country in 2035. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/10/10/toursim-labor-shortage/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tourism #foreignworkers #hotels #restaurants
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Man, people will do weird things to work around terrible software design choices.
"Platform A doesn't provide a good calendar link for events in its system, so I want a Zapier trigger that upon event creation feeds that event to Platform B, which generates a link, then update the event in Platform A to contain that link."
Why doesn't Platform A just get its shit together?
⚾️ Get this man some runs.
@zorn Phillies: You already have a run.
Us: We have 1 run yes, but what about Second run?
Also us: I don't think they know about second run.
Sadly I've returned from vacay, albeit moving slowly (jet lag sucks - but at least my flight left)
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For the string-centric hardware I re-synopsized yesterday... What process do I imagine using to turn such a system on?
For starters I think I'd suggest that the "Arithmetic Core" would be left on at all times to count the time. So I'd have it forward power-button interrupts onto the "Parsing Unit".
The Parsing Unit in turn would defer to the "Output Unit" before starting a mainloop implement the core of a microkernel. Including harvesting *some* external entropy.
1/3?
I will NEVER call them toots. Dammit, I just called them toots. Fuck! I did it again.
Gold and Silver Retreat From Highs as Investors Lock in Gains
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-09/gold-and-silver-retreat-from-highs-as-investors-lock-in-gains?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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@nora If not for the set up and material costs likely having jumped just as much, I'd wonder if it might have gotten cheaper to make your own.
(Second-hand sewing machines and overlockers are probably still pretty cost-effective, but fabric and notions would be a killer since as far as I know it'll all be getting manufactured outside of the US. And not a lot of options for thrifting knit fabrics - maybe even less now with how popular thrift stores must be getting.)
Billionaire Caruso Says He No Longer Builds in LA Due to Prices
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-09/billionaire-caruso-says-he-no-longer-builds-in-la-due-to-prices?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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The national average FICO score dropped by two points this year, the most since 2009.
Read more: https://t.co/GDKhOMafKy
@NickGates BACK ATCHA NICK
Drills a hole, finds a stud
This is the specific type of problem I was trying to avoid. Finder says there’s no stud. WTF
@farah you can use a strong magnet to find the drywall screws in the studs, that’s what I use, fwiw
Has anyone else noticed a kind of chilling effect on criticism of AI in tech workplaces and other professional settings? I’m seeing that a lot of the criticism of AI in those sorts of spaces is becoming more guarded and less upfront and open.
TIL about Streepass: https://streetpass.social/
It's a browser extension that collects those self-verification tags as you browse, so it builds up a nice little list of accounts you may want to follow on the Fediverse as you browse. It's also privacy-preserving, because nothing leaves your browser
Thanks for making it @tvler !
@pre I mean, I could see us doing that here.
@datarama That's rough but understandable.
I didn't get diagnosed with dyslexia until adulthood because my pattern-recognition-overdrive masked it. I was sight-reading at a very young age and *reading* constantly and well above my grade level.
But I couldn't spell, and I struggled to recognize grammatical syntax.
That translates into my coding experience. I'm a bit younger than you, but I learned to code on a hand-me-down atari 800. and then later a c64 emulator. BASIC syntax was somehow basic enough that I could hold onto it and write some complicated applications.
I developed an affinity for the process, and decided to pursue it professionally.
I didn't realize until I was much older why I could write BASIC so well, but couldn't get by nearly as well in other languages. I read a lot of "BASIC teaches bad habits" articles about spaghetti code and other bad programming.
I internalized that. BASIC = BAD. I'm better in BASIC than other languages. ME = BAD.
Turns out it wasn't the bad habits, it was the syntax.
So it goes.
I hope you re-discover some joy.
i went looking for a simple and specific clothing item and wow everything sure sucks and is expensive now
+ btw this is how they’re talking in DHH’s official Omarchy discord.
They fully know what it’s all about. There’s no ambiguity here.
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Randomly installed AltStore PAL on my iPhone to try. Way easier than I though! A real third party iOS app store feels so weird but also so normal at the same time
@altstore is now in the fediverse BTW!
