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Comment Re:Wrong? No. (Score 1) 111

I can't get my heart rate over 60 in 30 seconds.

Wow, nice!

Hard to imagine that 30 seconds a day is remotely the same as my daily running,

There was a study years back that found ultramarathoners continue to find more health benefits the longer they run (all else being equal).

It's easy to think of a mechanism behind 1 minute of exercise improving health. For example, the lymphatic system needs daily muscle movement to circulate. Even a little movement will be enough to remove waste products. Furthermore the flow of the intercellular matrix requires muscle movement.

Comment Re:Claude Code is good (Score 1) 63

In the real world, you rarely need small little once-off programs.

The vast majority of all programming is small incremental refactors to an existing codebase. If you don't understand the codebase (or at least, be able to find and understand the relative parts), you can't modify it. That is what most programmers do most of the time.

Comment Re:Reverse causation? (Score 1) 111

Something else I'm confused by is that they're talking about sedentary people, yet their data is plotted out to 85 kj/kg/day. If I'm doing the math right, that's about how many calories someone weighing 180 pounds would burn by bicycling 240 miles every week, which is up in professional cyclist territory. How do they have numbers for sedentary people that are in that order of magnitude?

1 kj is .239 kcal. A 180 pound person weighs 81 kg. So that is 81 * .239 = 19 standard calories a day.

Comment Re:Wrong? No. (Score 1) 111

These days, it's hard to find a headline about science that doesn't read "Scientists got this point wrong for 40 years!"

Before that it was, "this will revolutionize X" and before that, everything had to have some practical effect. "The modern day importance of 13th century Italian smut literature." Things like that.

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