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I hope this has future applications in laser projectors


Laser projectors already include green lasers made by the same principle, but made from separate semiconductor lasers and non-linear crystals.

With this technology, which integrates the non-linear crystal with the semiconductor laser, it may become possible to make cheaper laser projectors, either by making an integrated green laser, or perhaps even an integrated triple laser, for all 3 primaries, but the difference in cost will not be great, because the green laser is a rather small fraction of the total cost (though it may be more expensive than the red and blue lasers together).


Thank you for a great explanation!


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 have no idea what you're talking about. Please Google it.


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.


Interestingly, after looking at this more closely, what I said is true of rakija, which is what I'm most familiar with (part of my family is Serbian), but appears to not be significantly true for grain distillates. Your sources mostly don't address these topics though; the latter one is mainly about copper and lead levels.


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


Stone fruits (plumbs, apricots, the two most common fruits in rakija) have higher methanol levels:

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/2e9c/544909602112c2816a956b...


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

Nothing about more methanol in the heads either.

Your claims stand as unsupported.


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.


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.


Yeah, totally valid for things like D&D - I split that out too, for the same reason.

Work and homelab overlap constantly for me though. I make heavy use of periodic notes, so even something like recipes would get linked in weekly logs for meal planning or tracking. The connections don't have to be deep to be useful - sometimes it might just be 'I made this thing on this day' and that's enough context to be worth having in one place.


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!


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


Suggest you read the link in my reply to pessimizer.


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.



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.


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?


Yes exactly.


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


Some does. You don't need perfection of distilation to make a difference.


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


In small batches. In very large batches there is enough to be a concern. Where the line is, is something I don't know but you better figure out if you are going to make concentrated alcohol.


Batch size has nothing to do with it.


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