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@stats_feed As much as possible - No Sugar, No processed carbs, No booze. Lots of lean protein, lots of veggies and lots of exercise. Keep it simple. It will pay off. You can cheat a little in your 30's but not too much. I'm 62 and have to keep it tight.

@thesobergym @jasonwilliamsmd Yeah, 1% sounds small but it's NOT in that context.

@jasonwilliamsmd New diabetes after 50 with weight loss sounds minor, but that 1% cancer link is exactly why primary care needs to take it seriously. It’s a small signal that can save a life if acted on fast.

Stage I pancreatic cancer: 44% 5-year survival. Stage IV pancreatic cancer: 3%. By the time most patients reach me, they're already Stage IV. The gap is almost entirely detection. Three findings primary care should treat as pancreatic until imaging proves otherwise 👇

@sweatystartup "Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see". - Edgar Allan Poe (1845)

All the AI hype I’ve yet to see a single person actually show me how they are replacing employees with AI. Show me!!!!!!

@Demeter_Erinia I get up at 3am. I'm 63. I sleep about 6 hours. That's enough. There is so much to do. Get up!

Serious question. Why do people 50+ wake up like at 5 a.m.?

@signulll I'm not sure they see the long term money in developing for 'builders'. Anything we can build today, AI will be able to out do in the near term. The money is in the other 99% of people.

not a single person i have ever spoken to uses gemini for coding. this is still very very weird. why is gemini so bad at coding when google has scoured the web full of code for decades?

@dangreenheck Its coming but will take 10 years. Like everything else.

I've been using Claude Code exclusively for 6 months and I'm still not convinced on this whole AI thing. There are some *seriously* insidious problems that worry me, and I don't see them being fixed any time soon. Every release of a new model, I see hundreds of posts where people think because they one-shotted X or Y, software jobs are cooked (I've probably made one or two of these posts myself). But none of those examples are actually representative of real-world software. If I set it to work on an ambiguous or highly complex problem that has a lot of branching in the solution space, I've noticed the following: - It can often generate a working solution in one-shot, which gives me a false sense of confidence that the AI knows exactly what it's doing. - As I continue to work the problem, I've noticed the AI will start to narrow its focus more and more, not considering how a fix or solution plays into the big picture. - The quality of a solution depends on *how* I prompt it, which is really, really bad. Software engineering should be deterministic, not a dice roll. - It will often ignore instructions I have explicitly stated in the rules file, which removes any confidence I have in the code it generates. - It consistently overstates its confidence in a solution. I literally just got this response from Claude: "I overstated that. Honest answer: it depends on the scene and implementation; the 2–4× figure was too confident." If I had never pushed back, I would have been operating on incorrect information. - It is far too agreeable. If I'm not careful in my wording, the AI will blindly follow my instructions, even if they are suboptimal. I want a real coding partner that challenges my ideas, not an ass-kisser. Don't get me wrong—AI has helped me build some amazing things faster than I ever could without it. But the more I use it, the more I begin to question the direction things are headed. If the AI was more direct about what it (not) capable of, it'd be a lot easier to work with. But being gaslit every step of the way makes the process stressful as hell. Going back to manual coding isn't even an option since the value of having AI *potentially* generating the correct code in 1/10 or 1/100 of the time is literally too good to pass up on. Sorry for the rant, drank way too much cold brew this morning.

@SaraForTexLege I've switched to water. Also, no restaurants. The government is out of control and always will be.

I almost posted something identical yesterday. I went down the soda aisle and in that moment just decided I couldn’t afford Diet Coke anymore. And it’s not that I don’t have $9, but the cost vs value just doesn’t math anymore. Grocery prices are a full blown crisis at this point, and I’d really like to see some congressional action on price gouging. Because starving people living in the same country where grocery conglomerates are posting record profits is not a sustainable model. The greed has gone too far. Time to rein it in.

@CalltoActivism The mindset: There are some people with money, let's legally take it from them and use it to get people to vote for us.

🚨HUGE! In a stunning win for his tax the rich plan, Mayor Zohran Mamdani just reached a deal with Governor Kathy Hochul tax second homes valued over $5 million owned by out-of-state residents. The taxes will generate $500 million annually for the state. This is amazing.

@ThrillaRilla369 I stopped. Easy to make anything at home. Feel better too.

What happened to $5 footlongs? Why is my sandwich $15.89🥖

@emc2pi31484 @ThrillaRilla369 yep

@ThrillaRilla369 I quit eating out. There is nothing cheap anymore.

I use them all , grok is the worst at technical tasks. will answer a few of the questions down the path and then that is it. Grok was unable to reply. This request cannot be processed. Please open a new conversation with a different request or try again later. Every time I try. it works fine on other stuff , just not technical.

Try Grok

@Mercedes1dallas @traceyh415 WRONG

@traceyh415 Shingles is a form of the same virus as Chickenpox, if already exposed you don't need a dangerous vacx.

Anyone get the shingles vaccine? I keep putting it off but I feel like it is time.

@elonmusk sad.

As sure as night follows day, the Golden State will eat its Golden Geese until there are no more left. gg

@sandislonjsak “Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.” ~Edgar Allan Poe

@prashantsani @claudeai yeah, it's getting really bad. Time for handover docs for other AI. Can't really work like this.

Something's wrong with @claudeai Single prompt, used 100% of my current session usage. Single prompt. Anyone else facing this issue? #claude #claudeai

@hjluks yeah, it all(moslty) went away for me when I started lifting weights and switched to low impact cardio. I'd say 90ish% improvement. I'm 63 years old.

@drterrysimpson I know. It's all the docs fault that I didn't take care of myself. Not my fault. If I took responsibility that might make me an adult....noooo....

The idea that physicians “never told patients to curb sugar” is simply ahistorical. The American Diabetes Association has recommended limiting added sugars and refined carbohydrates for decades, along with weight loss, physical activity, and structured dietary patterns. Two of the most studied—Mediterranean-style diets and the DASH diet—have emphasized whole foods, reduced refined carbohydrates, and improved metabolic health for years. Low-carbohydrate diets are now one option in the ADA standards, but they are not the only evidence-based approach because multiple dietary patterns improve glycemic control and cardiovascular risk. And the fact that you didn’t read the literature does not mean it didn’t exist.

@williamwallace This just does not ring true with me personally. I sleep about 6 hours a night. I workout 90 minutes a day, 90%+ of my diet is low fat high protein, low sugar, carbs, veggies, fruit, etc. I feel great. I mediate everyday = and that is very refreshing. I'm 63 years old.

Controlled sleep restriction studies consistently show the same pattern: restrict healthy adults to 4-6 hours a night, and within a week, cortisol, glucose tolerance, insulin sensitivity, muscle protein synthesis, appetite hormones, and testosterone all move in the wrong direction. No single marker tells the story. The tax is cumulative. Leproult & Van Cauter, JAMA, 2011; Buxton et al., Diabetes, 2010; Spiegel et al., Lancet, 1999; Saner et al., J Physiol, 2020; Zuraikat et al., Diabetes Care, 2024

@mcuban It's bigger than that. There are more disabilities than sight impairment. I'm sick of seeing dancing robots. How about a robot (or AI) that actual helps the people that need it the most. Not just the tech bros.

I’ll ask this another way. When will AI, in any manner, be able to replace “seeing eye dogs” for the visually impaired ?

Thanks for posting. But so what? I go almost every day for 90 mins, various exercises and intensity. I never think about living longer because of it. It just feels good during and after and I feel good and energetic most of the time. I'm 63, been doing this (or similar) since age 14. I just don't understand the longevity mindset.

Small amounts of vigorous exercise provide the bulk of the benefits of all exercise. Exercise volume is really unimportant for fitness. This is true for cardio fitness, for mortality and longevity, and for strength. This particular paper shows that <10 minutes of vigorous exercise* per week (yellow) gets you more than half of all the longevity benefits of much longer periods. It's probably an even lower amount at higher intensity. * - Vigorous exercise here is defined as roughly 6 METs or above, which is jogging, moderate cycling, hiking, etc.. Sprinting is ~4x that intensity.

That's a great story, with a good ending. You posted something the other day about squats are not bad for your knees, NOT doing squats is bad for your knees. Also a good one. I work out almost everyday, some days hard. I'm 63, I hear from friends, "At your age you shouldn't..." I stop listening at that point.

The hardest conversation I have in my office isn't about surgery. It's about time. A 58-year-old sat across from me with knee pain. She’s otherwise healthy, but menopause has been rough on her. Her MRI shows some cartilage changes — age-appropriate, and a typical meniscus tear... basically, nothing that requires surgery. But she hasn't done any physical work in 15 years. She stopped playing tennis at 43. Stopped walking regularly at 50. Now the knee hurts when she climbs stairs. The knee isn't the problem. The knee is just the messenger. What has really happened is fifteen years of progressive capacity loss. Muscle mass has declined while tendon capacity has dropped. Her metabolic health shifted, and menopause has contributed to these changes. The knee was affected secondarily. The knee doesn't require my attention... that needs to be directed elsewhere. I can't give her those fifteen years back, but I can help her start from where she is. And starting from where she is still works. An 85-year-old can still synthesize new muscle protein after a single resistance-training session. The window of opportunity does narrow with age, but it never closes. Recovery takes longer. The risk of injury is likely higher. Progress is slower. But the biology of adaptation doesn't abandon you at 58, or 68, or 78. What changes is the cost of waiting. Every year of inactivity makes the starting point harder and the ceiling lower. The leverage you have at 40 is real and significant — and it's greater than the leverage you'll have at 60. That's not a reason for despair... It's a reason to start, wherever you find yourself now. 3 months later, after a solid strength/power program, she's walking daily with her weighted vest and is back on the tennis court.