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All KDE before 5 is buggy, slow, unstable, ugly, and generally unpleasant to use.

I remember running KDE3 and it consumed too much ram for too little stability. Much worse desktop experience than today.

We have a single harbor instance at work, backed by PG. The folks ran into some sort of performance issue during their testing (not documented) and their solution was to use cloud native pg, run two postgres, and add additional second layer of connection pooling.

We eventually hit a bug in a combination of certain images, docker desktop (not even supported by us), and permissions. The error looked related to the connections, so I suggested the pooler be bypassed as a test. They ignored the suggestion for two weeks until it was the last thing to test.

Sure enough bypassing the pooler helped stabilize the connection from harbor during image uploads.

Now I need to talk to them about properly vertical scaling PG before we try and run two with replication, in the same kube cluster, in the same physical data center.

I'd wish they'd focus on the problems leading to folks feeling that copper theft is a better source of income than other more legitimate routes.

Speaks volumes to the local economy and support networks.

I get why people blame indentation like this. I don't think it's right or wrong to ignore the tooling that directly addresses minor issues with indentation or matching braces honestly.

That said, my preference is to use the tools built into my editor and available on the CLI or web to assist and fix formatting and syntax. You get instant feedback on incorrect formatting, and I generally find that synthetic scope mistakes (regardless of method) are eliminated.

Appreciate the recommendation for the quantum thief. I really enjoyed accelerando which was a recommendation from a friend so I look forward to checking this one out. If it's good I'll share it with the same friend who taught me about accelerando.

Not the first time I've come across great recommendations in the comments of HN!

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/anthropic-expands-c...

FTA

WASHINGTON, May 12 (Reuters) - Artificial intelligence company Anthropic on Tuesday released an expanded suite of features for lawyers using its Claude AI assistant, including tools for specialized legal topics and access within Claude to other legal research and AI products.

Nothing about batch size affecting concentration of methanol in your link.

Nothing about more methanol in the heads either.

Your claims stand as unsupported.

Do you have any sources on methanol concentration that support your claims? If not the sources I provided show a low risk.

Thank you for a great explanation!

I have, you're pushing nonsense.

The methanol doesn't "come out in the heads" and batch size doesn't affect the final concentration as a % because roughly the same ratio is present during a run with a slight in crease in the tails due to the with methanol bonds with water.

https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/0b9...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S240584402...

Methanol poisoning comes from tainted consumables.

I hope this has future applications in laser projectors

Big fan of sane defaults like this.

I like tmux, but I no longer spend time customizing it for every server I run it on, only to be tripped up on some new server I haven't set-up yet.

Batch size has nothing to do with it

You want the best spread possible, by having the largest pool possible.

We can all debate and discuss the best way to get there, but mathematically it's a pool that includes most everyone.

Under > 7.4. Antidotes and Elimination Enhancement

7.4.2. Ethanol A therapeutic blood ethanol level of about 22 mmol/L (100 mg/dL) is recommended.

...

If ethanol was coingested with methanol and the blood ethanol level initially was >22 mmol/L (100 mg/dL), the bolus dose of ethanol can be skipped.

It's like you didn't even read your own source.

They are calling it recommended for certain conditions, and saying you can skip parts of treatment for co-ingestion!

Then in the conclusions section

Despite its extensive use, methanol poisoning remains a critical public health concern globally, often resulting from accidental or intentional ingestion and outbreaks linked to contaminated beverages.

They've called out contaminated beverages, not outputs of distillation.

You've been had by misinformation and now you're peddling lies.

I like that because it's just text, and obsidian is un-opinionated on organization, it allows us all to find workflows that suit us!

Batch size has nothing to do with it.

I think we need more Software Engineers, and fewer Computer Scientists.

IME, CS as a profession, doesn't need to concern itself with maintenance, secure coding practices, administration, system implementation, etc. There's no class called "maintaining this POS code base from 10 years ago."

CS folk fail when they don't make the top of a leader board for sorting algos.

Software Engineers fail if they tell you that maintenance requires 10 manual touch points over a weekend.

Different concerns. While software engineering is built upon CS fundamentals, ultimately your concern is with what's coming years down the line when your unpatched "hack week" project is underpinning the business model.

I just don't see myself needing to cross link my DnD, work, food, and home-lab nots significantly enough to not use separate collections.

A 10% ethanol solution administered intravenously is a safe and effective antidote for severe methanol poisoning. Ethanol therapy is recommended when plasma methanol concentrations are higher than 20 mg per dl, when ingested doses are greater than 30 ml and when there is evidence of acidosis or visual abnormalities in cases of suspected methanol poisoning.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1306022/

So I their words, it is an antitode, effective and recommended treatment.

If you don't want to provide a link and quote to the source, I'm going to treat it as it's unsourced.

If you want to claim the link and source are in another castle, I'm not playing games.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1306022/

A 10% ethanol solution administered intravenously is a safe and effective antidote for severe methanol poisoning. Ethanol therapy is recommended when plasma methanol concentrations are higher than 20 mg per dl, when ingested doses are greater than 30 ml and when there is evidence of acidosis or visual abnormalities in cases of suspected methanol poisoning.

https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/0b9...

“As methanol is highly soluble in water, it will distil over more at the end of distillations when vapours are richer in water. That means, methanol will appear in almost equal concentration in almost all fractions of pot still distillation in reference to ethanol (i.e., as g/hL pa), until the very end where it accumulates in the so-called tailings fraction. However, even today many professional distillers believe that methanol concentrates preferably in the first fractions.”

Hernández, J. A., Wörner, S., & Riedl, K. (2021). Methanol Mitigation during Manufacturing of Fruit Spirits with Special Regard to Novel Coffee Cherry Spirits. Foods, 10(5), 994.

There isn't enough methanol procured during distillation to cause I'll effects. So home made spirits are safe.

So if someone gets methanol poisoning from shine, it's because it was added by someone intentionally.

So don't buy bootleg spirits.

I didn't say antidote, I did say its used in treatment.

How do you imagine a mass poisoning event is going to occur? Is it something like a mass ecoli or salmonella event?

No, someone in the supply chain making cash. Someone swapped in some 20% methanol and hoped it would go unnoticed.

How does that have anything to do with home made and unsold products?

You're raising a valid issue with any tainted consumable, not something specific to home distillation.

Also let's not ignore the toxic copper and lead in the moonshine. It is a persistent problem.

You can, if you do what's common and build out of stainless steel. And again we're talking home consumption.

Why are you the police of what I poison myself with?

Obviously you are going to hold tight to your beliefs. Please spread them somewhere else

I'm sticking with the data, you are angry and wrong. Your ignorance at this point is willful. GLWT.

More is in the tails, neither is enough to be of concern.

Where are the sources on your claims that ethenol is only a temporary or last ditch treatment?

But you're out here trying to ban spoons thinking it's going to reduce access to heroin

Isn't that an issue with alteration and distribution rather than risk during production for self consumption and could happen for just about any product?

That's incorrect. The methanol bonds tighter to water and doesn't distill out clean in the heads.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methanol_toxicity

"Methanol poisoning can be treated with fomepizole or ethanol.[19][22][23] Both drugs act to reduce the action of alcohol dehydrogenase on methanol by means of competitive inhibition. Ethanol, the active ingredient in alcoholic beverages, acts as a competitive inhibitor by more effectively binding and saturating the alcohol dehydrogenase enzyme in the liver, thus blocking the binding of methanol. Methanol is excreted by the kidneys without being converted into the toxic metabolites formaldehyde and formic acid. "

So completely correct.

Alcohol fermented from fruit byproduct is extremely common in many cultures. It is asinine to think that only grain will be used once this is legalised.

Not what I was saying at all. You could use grain, or sugar (cheapest and easiest). That said, the levels are not significantly high enough to poison you unless someone is trying to poison you. It's not happening when making alcohol to drink.

From the link you posted

Administering patients with controlled doses of either ethanol or fomepizole is standard practice.

Again, what I said is completely correct, your own source confirmed it.

Secondly, also from the article

Bootleg brewers also sometimes add enough methanol to informally produced spirits to cause serious health effects.

Again, as I said, someone intentionally trying to poison you.

And here's an actual study

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S240584402...

Both commercial and home-distilled alcohols exhibited methanol concentrations remarkably below the 0.35 % limit for brandy set by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

You're simply misinformed.