dangayle

I bought a 1973 Fender Jazzmaster that was immaculate and should have been my forever guitar. I was so afraid of "ruining the value" that I sold it. I couldn't play it, I was so paranoid. It got into my head. Instead, I ended up buying a '65 AVRI Jazzmaster body and put on an EGC aluminum neck and a Tuffset bridge. The price was about 2/3 of the vintage one, but I have no qualms about playing this one. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Just throw it onto the pile, I guess

I love IRC, particularly #freenode. I really detest having to first search out then go through the whole process of signing up for yet another Slack group.

Thank you, I'll check that out.

As a newspaper developer, let me tell you, a horrible flaming death isn't good enough for it.

I'm not at all surprised, but I am disappointed (to say the least).

Oh nice. A company that does nothing but collect personal information. I’m already in their identity protection program, so I'm a little nonplussed at this.

Literally teams of interns manually re-typing old articles from microfilm. OCR isn't quite there yet, not for dealing with the ways newspapers and newspaper design has changed over the years. You'd get the text, but there would be no guarantees that it that story bylines, headlines, factboxes, and photos match. Our own digital archives go back to 1994, anything before that is manual input.

One of the biggest issues is that a lot of newsrooms have zero control over their CMS, because they're owned by a corporate entity that dictates IT decisions from afar, slowly and with much gnashing of teeth.

Family-owned papers like the one I work at (The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, WA) are the one of the few news orgs that could actually put something like this into production within this century, but even we still have to deal with manpower issues.

It's also great if you you're doing a bunch of time/pitch mangling.

Probably compressing the living daylights out of it. By squashing it down, they flatten the amplitude in the music and things with a lot of transients (by definition, drums) suffer. It results in a lot of fatigue, because the higher the compression the more it turns into white noise, essentially.

Sirius XM might be one of the last to standardize on a reasonable LUFS setting of 12 to 16.