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CowperKettle

01:26

@snailboat Probably high..

I've woken up and feel extremely weak and my head is like a piece of iron. I mean heavy. But I know that when I go to the doc I'll get some bullshit.

Some vitamins prescribed

I don't know what could the reason be for elevated hematocrit. Maybe it's a chance finding after all, with no meaning.

> Newborns: 55% to 68%
One (1) week of age: 47% to 65%
One (1) month of age: 37% to 49%
Three (3) months of age: 30% to 36%
One (1) year of age: 29% to 41%
Ten (10) years of age: 36% to 40%
Adult males: 42% to 54%
Adult women: 38% to 46%

Okay, 42 to 54% is okay

medicinenet.com/hematocrit/…

Anonymous

@CowperKettle Eep! That 38% to 46% would put my hematocrit a bit below "slightly low". I was going by the 35% to 45% range my hospital uses.

Anonymous

@CowperKettle Did you have your blood pressure taken around the same time?

CowperKettle

@snailboat I had it taken in the morning, at about 8 am, both times. The first time it was on Apri 26, the second, on May 11

And both times hematocrit was above 49%.

It was about 50% first time and 50.8% second.

Could it be the outcome of jogging a lot? I had jogged a lot before April 20, when I first felt bad. Maybe it's overtraining.

Anonymous

I don't know. Were you well hydrated?

CowperKettle

01:43

Yes. I drink overmuch.. I force myself to drink less, but I drink maybe 4 liters a day

My relatives are chiding me for constantly drinking tea

Anonymous

02:17

I love tea.

skull

Have you seen this? @snailboat

in English Language and Usage, 3 hours ago, by Matt E. Эллен

CowperKettle

02:43

> Adulting is an informal term to describe behavior that is seen as responsible and grown-up.

Word of the day: adulting

dictionary.com/e/slang/adulting/?param=DcomSERP-RR4

Anonymous

03:43

@CowperKettle Now there's a WOTD I hear relatively often!

Anonymous

@skull I haven't! Thank you :-)

skull

np :-)

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CowperKettle

04:54

@snailboat Do you really hear this word? I never came across it before.

Anonymous

05:16

@CowperKettle Yep!

Anonymous

Now, when I say relatively, I do mean that. It's not a frequent word, but it's more frequent than a lot of our WOTDs. Even so, I've heard it quite a few times.

Anonymous

There's apparently even a Reddit forum called "adulting".

Anonymous

Anyway, it's pretty marginal as far as words go. I think it almost always appears in some variation on the phrase "adulting is hard" or "I'm not very good at adulting".

Anonymous

It's one of those things people write online and other people copy, but it's not a very well established word. People don't go around using adult as a verb very often in casual conversation. I mean, they certainly could, and probably someone has, but it's not really established in that usage.

Anonymous

A fun contrast between formal and informal in the same essay: psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/thinking-about-kids/201612/…

Captain Bohemian

05:38

I think adult can also mean the level of hardness of a subject. I have seen adult is used for this meaning in different ways in bookstore and Facebook.

Anonymous

05:53

@skull It looks like they'll be posting an explanation for what happened with chat: twitter.com/StackStatus/status/995538632130859009

Anonymous

It says "Post-mortem report in the works".

skull

Thanks for the update @snailboat

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CowperKettle

13:57

One day the novice said to the master "I have a solution to our allocation problem. We will give every allocation a reference count, and when it reaches zero, we can delete the object". The master replied "One day the novice said to the master "I have a solution... — Eric Lippert May 9 at 14:07

I don't understand this joke

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Anonymous

16:33

@CowperKettle The idea is that if nothing's using the object, it can be deleted (garbage collected). But the master points out circular references, which would keep naively reference counted objects around forever.

Anonymous

So GC tends to use mark-and-sweep instead of reference counting.

Anonymous

Or, y'know, a less naive algorithm along those lines.

CowperKettle

17:40

@snailboat Oh, cool, although still a bit above my head. (0:

Cool that you understand that. My programming knowledge is weaker.

I don't want to expand my knowledge right now, so let it remain a mystery to me.