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aooeeuon 3D Realms announces Graven, the spiritual successor to Hexen II

Or GOG, though the price is higher right now. https://www.gog.com/game/dusk

aooeeuon Estimating pitch with SPICE and Tensorflow Hub

Could this be used to determine the temperament of a piece of music (well temperament, meantone, pure intonation etc)?

e.g. recently I've been looking into the Persian Santur but have been unable to find a reliable source of tuning information (https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/101000/how-is-the-...).

aooeeuon How I recorded an album on my own, in my room

If you're ok with plugins https://neuraldsp.com/ and https://www.stltones.com/ are often recommended. I demoed them all and ended up buying Nolly and Plini (nice clean Fender sounds).

aooeeuon Small World: The Tiny House Trend

Photos and more info at https://www.peak-view-park.com/.

My impression is most of these houses are small not tiny (not that there's anything wrong with that).

aooeeuon The Haskell School of Music – From Signals to Symphonies

I was hoping to see at least some discussion of temperaments [1], like Scala [2], but this appears to only support 12-tone equal temperament?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_temperament [2] http://www.huygens-fokker.org/scala/

aooeeuon The Death of the Internet: A Pre-Mortem

> it made our lives so much easier and we can't live without it anymore

You might think differently if for example you are an OAP struggling to pay heating bills or you live in Sao Paulo and the taps don't always work.

Agreed, some form of internet will probably survive for quite a long time, but that is addressed in the article.

aooeeuon The Death of the Internet: A Pre-Mortem

The core theme of the authors blog is to chart out a realistic view of the future that awaits us, and planning our lives accordingly. My impression (from reading the blog these past few years) is that the author is a happy positive person, but you may have to dig into more of his work to see that.

There's plenty of information out there about water problems (California's loss of ground water for example).. I can't really post those articles though as they're not directly relevant to HN.

aooeeuon The Death of the Internet: A Pre-Mortem

His articles are largely based on studying history, I'm not sure what your point is.

If he claimed to be say an Economist, then I would be more sceptical.

aooeeuon Groundwater Contamination May End the Gas-Fracking Boom

The boom will be over in a few years, when it is no longer economically viable. http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2013/08/well-and-trul...

aooeeuon Pearl Boy WebGL Demo

Not great if your keyboard is in Dvorak :-)

aooeeuon How to Learn Emacs: A Hand-drawn One-pager for Beginners

There is ergoemacs.org though I gave up trying to adjust myself.

aooeeuon Gas Boom Projected to Last for Decades

"Oil and gas production from fracked wells thus starts out high but suffers ferocious decline rates—up to 90% in the first year alone." http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-end-of-sh...