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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.

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

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Nothing about more methanol in the heads either.

Your claims stand as unsupported.

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 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.

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

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

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>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.

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.

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

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

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.

“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.

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

So don't buy bootleg spirits.

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.

"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.

First, if they are not using anything with pectin in it, there isn't a significant amount of methanol at all worth measuring.

Second, if they did use fruit skins in the fermentation stage, there still isn't enough methanol to compete with the ethanol, (which is the cure to methanol poisoning) with out intentionally poisoning the batch.

You shouldn't push such FUD.

From what I remember, the highest concentration of methanol is in the tails. That should tell you everything.

*EDIT* Found the paper

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

I can see you're lacking some knowledge on what makes up a still, as well as it's completely legal use for distillation of water.

A still is just a bucket with a heat source and some vapor collector and condenser. It's easy to build from a couple of pickle jars and hot glue if you're determined.