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I wasn't expecting what the inside of the shed would be like!

There's another video on YouTube by the same guy detailing how he built his backyard clean room shed. I was kind of surprised at how easy it was - it's definitely a construction project that requires some specialized knowledge, but the fact that it's tractable at all for one person with a shed is pretty amazing to me.

Of course it not easy. He spent $20k on materials and a good amount of elbow grease just to construct this one room. In order to maintain the clean environment the air circulation runs 24/7 and he washes all the surfaces daily using cleanroom wipes. Deionized water system provides water for washing the cleanroom gowns. It is a lot of work just to have a small facility at home for odd jobs.

I'm the opposite, it drives me crazy! Along with sound effects / music playing.

The alt-text on this one is particularly relevant: https://xkcd.com/1172/

We unified the entire CJK space but there was no "x" unification!


Although I've had some fun with deduction games, I'm usually extremely averse to them. Forced to sit down and try to lie while listen to my voice suspiciously, then having the group turn against me and all my friends and randos interrogating and accusing me... it's like a special hell-dream come to life.


Indeed, and if you're especially good at it and win the game, then everybody knows from then on that you can't be trusted because you can't be easily read.


Yeah either you're in some Kafka-esque trial or you learn your friends can lie to your face while smiling!


In that case, it also took a boatload of investor money, keeping on the previous farm staff, and endless volunteer labour by way of WWOOF [1]. Not that any of that's a bad thing, but the whole time I was watching it I was thinking did they really just start off by saying:

> We sensed it was coming. The landlord called. Todd had to go. Moving to another apartment wouldn’t stop Todd’s barking. And then it hit us. Molly’s dream could be the answer to everything. We had a great idea with no way to pay for it. [...] it eventually connected us to some investors who actually saw this old way of farming as the future.

How did two city-slicker non-farmers manage to get investment for a large, fully-staffed farm? I imagine the fact that they'd been spending the last 20 years making documentaries had something to do with it, and surely they weren't going to end up with a film saying "we thought we could make our natural organic farm work, boy were we wrong!"

1. https://web.archive.org/web/20140315055010/http://www.aprico...


Said farmers were family of the founder of a large HFT firm.


Another comment pointed out that a at least one de-mining expert is skeptical:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47680882


I like running, it's the thing that makes me feel the most "right".


I only (rarely) get it in the morning, right before I'm about to fully wake up. I always panic because I'm desperate to move on my own, even though I know I shouldn't. But I've never seen a demon or anything, just my room – though it's an imagined version because my eyes aren't actually open yet, and usually when I wake up the room and lighting look quite different.


Doesn't work for the other 125 encoded characters that are numerically seven, as defined in the Unicode Character Database:

https://www.unicode.org/Public/17.0.0/ucd/extracted/DerivedN...

(Viewable / copy-able version: https://pastebin.com/fNRv3wD6)


Well then, I won’t be a paying customer then.


I should mention that unicode.org has a "Unicode Set" query tool so no one gets swindled by a similar service ;)

https://util.unicode.org/UnicodeJsps/list-unicodeset.jsp?a=%...


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