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I like the thousander chant but I only have regular laptop speakers. What do you recommend to really "get" the song? What would I hear beyond those super low basses?


A good pair of headphones would be my next choice.

It's not much "under" it - but rather the fill your senses with what it would be like to be in the Mynster as each nave did their chats in the great octagonal hall. And while its a passage about the Hundreders...

> We sauntered across the meadow to the Mynster. Even so, we got there in plenty of time, and ended up in the front row, closest to the screen. Voco continued ringing for some minutes after we arrived. Then the eight ringers filed down from their balcony and found places farther back. A choir of Hundreders came out into the chancel and began a monophonic chant.

Or the description of a Thousander chat

> ... As I walked toward it my perceptions cleared suddenly and I shook my head in amazement at my own silliness in having imagined it was an amphibian or a truck. It was plainly a human voice. Singing. Or rather droning, for he had been stuck on the same note the whole time I’d been awake.

> The note changed slightly. Okay, so it wasn’t a drone. It was a chant. A very, very slow one.

> I could have stood there watching and listening for hours. I got the idea—which might have been just my imagination—that {spoilers} was singing a cosmographical chant: a requiem for the stars that were being swallowed up in the dawn. Certainly it was music of cosmographical slowness. Some of the notes went on for longer than I could hold my breath. He must have some trick of breathing and singing at the same time.

Just let the sound fill everything.


The Vampire Tapestries, about a non-supernatural vampire


The omnicube link is broken FYI


Oh shoot, thanks for the heads up. Is the page not loading for you at all, or is it another problem? I just tried it again at https://trykon.itch.io/omnicube and I seem to be able to get through to successfully download the demo.


I just spent an entire weekend playing candy box 2 and I had so much fun, I made a donation to the dev. First game I've played to the end in years. There's something about making a number go up (in the game, it is candies) that satisfies my curiosity in a way I didn't think I needed.

I got to use my math skills (estimating when some scheme would make the number reach a certain level. I got to use my research skills (searching the game wiki for schemes to make the number reach a certain level). I got to use my puzzle-solving on some of the minigames. I got to be patient while waiting for schemes to pay off. I got to be persistent when grinding through some minigames to make the number go up. I had something to look forward to whenever I was bored throughout the day.

Thanks to the dev, aniwey, and thanks to the HN poster who started the thread about Universal Paperclips on which I found a reference to Candy Box 2.


Thanks. I'd already started paying for it, and now it looks like I won't have to anymore.


Here's a sci-fi story about tech-assisted cataloging of parent's stuff

"Using this kind of technology on a living human’s home would be a gross invasion of privacy. But if you use it in the home of someone who’s died alone, it just improves a process that was bound to take place in any event. Working with Infinite Space, you can even use the inventory as a checklist, value all assets using current eBay blue-book prices, divide them algorithmically or manually, even turn it into a packing and shipping manifest you can give to movers, telling them what you want sent where. It’s like full-text search for a house."

https://www.iftf.org/fileadmin/user_upload/downloads/th/ByHi...


Please spoil it, I've read the book multiple times and I'm looking to learn even more :)


Tractor companies (e.g. John Deere, CASE) provide this information in their cloud offerings


TIL that Atlassian's Confluence (used at big corps for internal documentation) uses Textile, or something similar, for their text editor.

https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-wiki-markup-...


Join a contracting agency for a couple of years to see how contracting works, then you can decide to contract directly by yourself.


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