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> am 73 years old and I’ve had a difficult life, but a long and good one. I just got back from visiting my grandmother who is a few weeks away from turning 10

> am 73 years old and I’ve had a difficult life, but a long and good one. I just got back from visiting my grandmother who is a few weeks away from turning 100. She still lives alone, cooks her own food, walks without assistance, has a tremendous memory and still has the mental acuity of any intelligent healthy young person. Her son, my father is 75 and is a physician and still works 60 hour weeks (which he considers to be retirement hours). I started laughing when I read the doctor considering 73 to be a long life. That age feels like barely out of middle age to me.

bagacrap 4y ago
Welp, my dad had an unexpected and fatal heart attack at 58. I would count myself lucky to live to 73.
- Mobil1 4y ago
  Mine died at 59 while working in a hospital pharmacy.
renewiltord 4y ago
Dude, we know. Everything has a long tail. If everyone in the tail for everything came and posted about stuff we'd be sitting here primarily reading comments that go: - $500k? I make $5 million and that doesn't even seem enough - 2 children? I have 5 children and that barely feels like a family - 3 vim plugins? I have 1E80 and even that is barely enough to write Hello World in Java
- baxtr 4y ago
  Long tail makes for good stories though.
- turtleyacht 4y ago
  Do you have more details on Java with vim? There's a person working on vi who has tracked three decades of patches from OpenBSD starting from Keith Bostic. There's someone working on an obscure roleplaying game that's pre-Diablo. There's the ones who sail on a boat and craft bespoke C-reations on their own virtual machine. The X11 maintainers, always and ever. So many more. And not for some reward at the end of a mortal journey, but in some sense for its own sake. Even with LLMs and the flex of planet-scale computation, in the midst of wild, speculative financial schemes, there is a comfort in a familiar domain, patches therein, and being a kind of owner of this, essentially intangible, work of code.

bagacrap 4y ago

Welp, my dad had an unexpected and fatal heart attack at 58. I would count myself lucky to live to 73.

Mobil1 4y ago
Mine died at 59 while working in a hospital pharmacy.

renewiltord 4y ago

Dude, we know. Everything has a long tail. If everyone in the tail for everything came and posted about stuff we'd be sitting here primarily reading comments that go: - $500k? I make $5 million and that doesn't even seem enough - 2 children? I have 5 children and that barely feels like a family - 3 vim plugins? I have 1E80 and even that is barely enough to write Hello World in Java

baxtr 4y ago
Long tail makes for good stories though.
turtleyacht 4y ago
Do you have more details on Java with vim? There's a person working on vi who has tracked three decades of patches from OpenBSD starting from Keith Bostic. There's someone working on an obscure roleplaying game that's pre-Diablo. There's the ones who sail on a boat and craft bespoke C-reations on their own virtual machine. The X11 maintainers, always and ever. So many more. And not for some reward at the end of a mortal journey, but in some sense for its own sake. Even with LLMs and the flex of planet-scale computation, in the midst of wild, speculative financial schemes, there is a comfort in a familiar domain, patches therein, and being a kind of owner of this, essentially intangible, work of code.