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  • In comparison detoxing from heroin is not great for the user, but there’s no risk of death.

    That is not completely correct. While the abscence of opioids in an addicts system can not cause life threatening conditions, the withdrawal symptoms absolutely can.

    The most direct pathway to fatality during opioid withdrawal is through severe fluid and electrolyte imbalances. Persistent, forceful vomiting and diarrhea are hallmark symptoms of acute withdrawal. This loss of bodily fluids, compounded by excessive sweating, can quickly lead to severe dehydration.

    Dehydration can cause a dangerous concentration of electrolytes, particularly sodium, a condition known as hypernatremia. This electrolyte imbalance severely stresses the cardiovascular system. In extreme cases, hypernatremia can lead to seizures, brain damage, or cardiac arrhythmia and subsequent heart failure.

    Another potential risk is aspiration pneumonia, which occurs when a person inhales their own vomit into their lungs. This is a particular concern if the individual is weakened or unable to protect their airway. This serious complication requires immediate medical intervention to prevent lung infection and respiratory failure.

    Source: https://biologyinsights.com/can-you-die-from-opioid-withdrawal/







  • I was more looking at doing this with a tool like wget. I got the following command, that downloads the post and its assets, but for some reason it then does not actually work:

    wget --recursive --no-clobber --page-requisites --html-extension --convert-links --restrict-file-names=windows --domains "feddit.org" --no-parent  "feddit.org/post" "https://feddit.org/post/33942692
    

    The advantage of wget is, that it also accepts multiple links at once, so it is quite easy do download multiple posts at once (which is my goal)










  • You usually don’t take the time to learn vim or Emacs just to write some notes. The real value of such powerful and highly customisable text editors only shows itself when you are editing lots and lots of text on a regular basis (e.g. codimg, writing blogs or any other form of writing)

    The advantage vim and emacs have is, that they have keybindings for about everything you could ever want. This has the advantage, that once you know how to use them, your working speed massively increases, but it takes quite some time to learn the keybindings. Another advantage and disadvantage of (neo) vim and emacs is, that both are being modified by config files. This comes at the advantage of being able to modify about everything about your editor, but means that sometimes it can be quite hard to implement a specific behaviour. The next advantage is, that your configuration becomes easily portable and extensible. Implementing a specific behaviour often only requires copy pasting a 15 year old stackoverflow post and if you want to move to a new device, you just have to grab your config files and are good to go.

    Emacs also has orgmode directly integrated into it, which can be used to write text and format it (similar to Markdown, but much more powerful) and even export it to other formats like HTML or LaTeX. As you might expect, orgmode also has its own keybindings. This means, that you can write your documents inside emacs [orgmode], use all the powerful text formatting tools and keybindings and then share your work in a nicely formatted and portable way.