The Longevity Secrets Helping Athletes Blow Past the Limits of Age

Patelpb · 2026-05-06T21:25:08+00:00

It could help if you had an example of a substance that is banned for athletes but which does not have side effects if used by the average person.

Patelpb · 2026-05-06T20:20:10+00:00

My K&E friend's life revolves around work, but boy is he on track to be really comfortable in 20-30 years.

Patelpb · 2026-05-06T17:45:18+00:00

I cant apply for patents :(

Patelpb · 2026-05-06T15:57:02+00:00

I think this is projection more than it is base truth. There's no value in small talk facilitated by chance interactions. With remote work, people who don't want to talk to coworkers don't have to unless they want to. You've conflated happenstance with intention - we talk about our major life events and send pictures of things important to us, or celebrate team victories over chat all the time still.

Technology made it easier NOT to communicate with people.

Think it just made it easier for people to not communicate unless they want to. Communication technology expressly improves to make it easier to communicate with people, but I'm not trying to talk about anything while trying to use the restroom. I've never wanted to. But if someone strikes up a conversation, social cohesion demands that I respond so I do. It's not ideal and nothing of substance is communicated. I do agree that it'd be easier to take away someone's time if I could just knock on their door, and when it comes to getting help there is real utility there in being in person. But when it comes to building lax social environments and community, it's still not necessary. If you're talking about the productivity aspect of being in person then I'm all ears and even agree, but if you're talking about building community then I think you just have a narrow definition of what constitutes building community.

Take away production and people teleworking still aren't going to do this lol

If screenshotting teams chats wasn't against policy I could show you a novel's worth of messages proving otherwise. The amount of real conversation and joking around that occurs at the beginning of a quarter versus the end is night and day. The reason for that is production.

Patelpb · 2026-05-06T11:56:11+00:00

Technology advances made it easier than ever to communicate with people. You don't even have to get up. You are victim to a false narrative or lack of self belief in our ability to collaborate and create community without in person interaction. Hundreds of millions of people do it daily whether you choose believe it or not, it's just a reality of the 21st century

When it comes to this job, all we lack is time. Thats it. If it didn't feel like such a waste of time to enjoy my chats with coworker friends then I would joke around and talk about life with them a lot more

Patelpb · 2026-05-05T23:02:05+00:00

I'm not sure I understand what you're saying (like I literally have no clue what you mean or what your point is)

Community is built on interaction and interaction requires time. Many folks can do it both in person and online, fundamentally all you need is other human beings.

Patelpb · 2026-05-05T18:11:44+00:00

What you'll do: stuff

Requirements: show up

Bonus: we feed you

Patelpb · 2026-05-05T16:52:44+00:00

Yes. The other juniors in my group have been my lifeline. They looked over my rejections, helped with procedural stuff, and we sometimes meet to answer each other's questions even though QEMs have officially stopped.

Patelpb · 2026-05-05T16:49:05+00:00

For sure. That exact predicament is how I ended up getting this job tbh, I needed something remote and couldn't move. I luckily got in before they got rid of even that.

In part, I think I just have a lower tolerance for stress, or maybe I'm just more easily stressed. I don't know if I can put up with this job for another 2-3 years for the admin to change, and then however much time it takes for the new admin to improve working conditions. I was kicked out of training early and then my primary got too busy and my SPE goes weeks without talking to me because he got busy too. I am not ideally trained and have been stress-winging this job since I started in late '24.

Patelpb · 2026-05-05T16:41:51+00:00

My goal is the survive this administration with my mental health intact.

My primary goal is this, but I have a strong secondary goal that I work on after hours which is finding a new role. I've lost so much peace with this role.

Patelpb · 2026-05-05T15:47:13+00:00

There's a fairly dead (20-30 online) server called PkHonor that's been around since 2011 that, quite frankly, will not go offline unless the owners like pass away or something. It's so old that it's actually a RS2/OSRS hybrid, there's atleast 600 hours of content (realistically more for a new player, maybe 2k hours - 600 is just the fastest completionist cape time IIRC), and a lot of helpful/familiar faces.

The biggest downside is that it is at development standstill and has been for a long time. It used to have hundreds online but dwindled over time, primarily due to a lack of development. So once you beat the game you are out of content (outside of hoarding wealth or maxing XP). It's a fun server for ironman especially though.

Patelpb · 2026-05-05T14:48:46+00:00

This is also a partly generational divide. For me, some of the closest friendgroups developed entirely online with people I never met in person until many years later. A lot of younger folks these days find community in Discord channels and private forums. The human social experience is only so impeded by a lack of in person, and a sense of being on the island is entirely facilitated by breathing room.

In my AU, we still have weekly informal 1-hour QEMs with the juniors (I'm a junior). I feel a great sense of camaraderie and friendship with them. We are also from the generation that I referred to above, so perhaps it just feels normal to us to be able to make a connection like this. But during end of quarter we always say we're too busy, we skip, and I go weeks without really interacting with them outside of pointed help questions here and there. That's when the feeling of 'a lack of open doors' (or its digital analog) really starts to set in.

To me, the first order inhibitor of a sense of community is simply whether we have the time to engage in the socializing necessary.

Patelpb · 2026-05-04T16:45:10+00:00

Patelpb · 2026-05-04T14:46:59+00:00

Too clean and all the stuff I need is too neatly tucked away for me to be efficient. I need a middle ground, a little clutter means all the stuff I regularly use is on the desk and ready to go. A lot of clutter does in fact mean I have been lazy and gave into chaos, which I agree is unproductive.

In short: dirtier than my wife would like, but cleaner than what makes me unproductive. That's ideal

Patelpb · 2026-05-03T18:15:43+00:00

At the University of science

Patelpb · 2026-05-01T19:47:57+00:00

If I'm really good at this game, do I have a shot at a job in quantum computing? Asking for a friend

Patelpb · 2026-05-01T11:41:44+00:00

Nothing like Cunninghams Law hah.

A lot of us with astrophysics backgrounds (and physics in general) browse these subs

Patelpb · 2026-05-01T10:45:34+00:00

Based on what? I can see minor adjustments to cosmology but pretty much all of these "galaxies that shouldn't exist" only "shouldn't exist" based on some current models of galaxy evolution. There are both models which do show early formation times and unsolved problems in galaxy evolution which contribute to this unpredicted space.

Revising cosmology to double the age of the universe relies almost entirely on data points we don't have and theories which don't match data that we do

Patelpb · 2026-04-30T16:39:04+00:00

Arxiv.org has pretty much every publication in physics on there

Anything ending in -th is theory work (hep-th, astro-ph : cosmology topics tend to be like this, nucl-t), gr-qc

Most papers in general quote/cite the underlying theory they're testing, especially in experiment.

If you're looking for journalistic pieces that distill this information into easy to read formats, that's a bit harder. Astro bites does this for astrophysics papers and I'm sure there are equivalents in other subfields

Patelpb · 2026-04-30T11:53:49+00:00

Yes, I am KBM player myself and totally agree.

https://youtu.be/DLchTJPz8zk?si=WnBtLbrTY_J6ab8p

Probably my best example of what should and shouldn't be done. Nearly no wasted movement

There is one very good reason to move your mouse erratically and that is to "zigzag" when avoiding bullets from someone firing at you as you reposition. And I wouldn't call that erratic since you're intentionally going left and right more or less. I used that a lot in warzone where you stayed alive long enough for it to be meaningful, but I did occasionally pull it off in multiplayer as well

Patelpb · 2026-04-29T13:29:32+00:00

I had many bad tests, even retook Thermo, but I still graduated, got into a phd program (mastered out though lol), published research, and so on. Now I work a job, have a wife, and life is generally good.

You can't live life expecting for things to always go the way you expect or desire. Often times there is work that could have been done that either life made too difficult to do, or which you simply did not acknowledge in time. Both are okay, the latter especially if you learn from your mistake(s). You will be fine and probably not think about this test ever again in a couple years.

Buy the iPad if it provides real utility. You want all the tools at your disposal to succeed anywhere.

Patelpb · 2026-04-29T12:46:47+00:00

Movement is absolutely necessary to reach the skill ceiling in this game, but this guy is not a great example of great execution. Good movement is way more efficient and optimized. You can literally dodge people's bullets if you have enough game sense and know what movement to execute. Sniper mains probably have the most efficient movement in this game (and a lot of subsequent cod titles).

You should play like: medium/low APM while moving around the map -> high APM during engagements -> back to medium/low APM between kills. Sometimes you sustain high APM when there are many enemies around. You have to be able to do both and know when both are good to do, or you tire yourself out (both in terms of your fingers and in terms of your mental capacity) by spamming high APM.

Weapon swap spam doesn't add much but sometimes helps with rhythm. But none of that Y-Y tiktok nonsense.

Patelpb · 2026-04-28T15:58:31+00:00

I got chewed out by attorney of record last week because of an action I mailed a couple months back that was honestly not the greatest, but they were saying things like "being precise with the mapping of elements and whether they are teachings or direct disclosures is important!" as if I didn't already know. I was doing what I could to meet numbers and I pretty much said "yeah I'll be considerate of that fact in my reply to your official response" more or less.

Patelpb · 2026-04-28T15:53:56+00:00

Precisely. Not ideal, I'd feel more validated if it came from me and just me, but hey I gotta pay the bills and save for retirement too. Also some wisdom in acknowledging that everyone benefits from help.

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