How do you monitor ferritin levels ? Blood test ? I couldn't find any auto-test where I live
From blood tests, yes
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I've noticed the same. I'm a woman so bleed often, I'd feel the fatigue but my blood work didn't show anemia, so my primary care physician didn't feel the need to prescribe it yet. I decided to take supplements on my own and monitor the ferritin levels to make sure I don't over-do it.
Note, if you aren't bleeding regularly, it's very unlikely you need it, and iron might be harmful. Make sure to test your ferritin levels before and regularly as you do it.
rvp-x commented on Blood pressure e-tattoo promises continuous, mobile monitoring news.utexas.edu/2022/06/2... · Posted by u/Tomte
This sounds fantastic. The blood pressure cuffs are very bothersome for anyone needing to do a 24-hour analysis. My mom did one and it would take a measurement every hour during night time and it was very hard for her to sleep through it. It would be tight enough some times to burst capillaries. And once an hour is a really low resolution.
rvp-x commented on Fedora considers deprecating legacy BIOS lwn.net/SubscriberLink/89... · Posted by u/bitcharmer
Fedora didn't even support UEFI on their cloud images before Fedora 35, released 5 months ago.
rvp-x commented on One App – Two Worlds: This Is TikTok in Russia and Ukraine nrk.no/osloogviken/xl/tik... · Posted by u/mmgu
You can't see 80km from the ground, and it's on the other side of a closed international border and the war itself. Residents of Belgorod can have little to no idea what's happening in Kharkiv other than the news. Well, that and the gigantic explosion of the local oil depot.
Heck, in many places around the world people get most local news from social media apps.
I've heard explosions similarly far away (although it was at the coast and in an unusually quiet place). Explosions in the air travel really far. And every time I heard explosions so far I looked at the news/social media.
In one of these incidents the news article seemed like it might be a coverup to me so I looked up user forums in case someone leaked the real information.
rvp-x commented on Mourning loss as a remote team sofuckingagile.com/blog/m... · Posted by u/asyncscrum
Depends on the company. I know for a fact that if I died tomorrow, only two people would actually notice at all and neither of them are coworkers.
It doesn't seem particularly helpful to send out a notifications to people other then those that would be affected by having to take on my workload. And what good would come from them being told I was dead vs just left?
Not noticing doesn't mean the world doesn't care. There are a lot of reasons people vanish and it's harder to notice the absence of something than its existence, and people usually vanish for positive reasons, so I think nothing of it. I cried after discovering some people I hadn't known personally but were adjacent to me have died. I didn't notice their absence but I can empathize with the suffering they felt before their death, or the feelings of their family coming to grip with their absence.
While I have a strong emotional reaction to it, I don't think it's a bad thing, it is a part of life and a reminder for me to savor life.
rvp-x commented on Chrome users beware: Manifest v3 is deceitful and threatening eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12... · Posted by u/dredmorbius
Wait FF is copying this too?!?
Firefox will make it possible to upload manifest V3 extensions to their store (eventually). It's a good thing because it makes it easier to make an extension that works unmodified for both.
Chrome is additionally planning to remove support for manifest V2 as well, Firefox can't start to do this because they don't support V3 in their store yet.
rvp-x commented on On Pegasus – NSO, Israel, and the World lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n... · Posted by u/mitchbob
As someone who worked in Israel and is familiar with the tech scene there firsthand I can testify to the fact that the entire cybersecurity industry is intertwined with the IDF and the Israeli government to such a degree that any differentiation that could be made would be purely superficial.
The intelligence units of the IDF are petri dishes in which the talent that later creates the very cybersecurity firms whose products are sold under the direct supervision of the Israeli government is cultivated. There is an entire framework focused around funding and training these graduates of intelligence units to create commercial companies that are essentially subsidiaries of the IDF. And these companies don't discriminate when it comes to sales - clients include tyrants, criminal organizations and even Muslim states. Big corporations e.g. Microsoft are also involved, as they usually end up buying these infosec enterprises, essentially funding the Israeli government / military.
It's truly disturbing to see the opportunistic nature of all of this.
They're "funding the israeli government/military" as much as a purchase from a US firm funds the US military - they're legally required to pay a tax and some of that money goes into the military.
Once released from the military these people have no additional obligation to pay for the military more so than people in more tame business - in fact, they might be seen as owed something for serving in the military, rather than the other way around.
I'd like to think I've been getting better at it. I find that I'm more familiar with what successfully finishing a task "feels like".
- doing the less appealing subtasks you've been putting off. it's objectively more difficult towards the end if you work this way.
- not treating "it works" as a finish line, remembering there might be more steps like code review, writing tests, and so on.
- avoid self-punishing comments like "I wanted to finish this on Friday and it's not done yet".
this often combines with the previous point - "I felt the task is done when it worked, but now I have to do all the tedious things like tests and I already declared it to be done on Friday!"
> Covid's is about 2-3%.
0.7% in Israel. Much much less if you exclude terminal cancer, obesity and immunosuppressed transplant recipients.
Remember that a third of the US is considered obese[1] and 10.5% of the population is diabetic[2], another common risk factor for covid.
You probably know a lot of people are in those groups.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_obesity_r...
[2] https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/pdfs/data/statistics/national-d...