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I spent my entire childhood reading, my teen years hacking, and my adulthood as a software engineer and gamer. I've spent my life doing all the things mom warned you about. I'm in my 50s and still have 20/20 vision.


There are a number of 90 year old chain smokers without lung cancer too.


Funny you say that, as I just got back from an eye appointment and in my 50s also still have 20/20 vision (after more than 40 years of programming/staring at the screens).


Thats great. You might be one of the 9 coworkers in my org that do not wear glasses or contacts as far as I am aware in an org of 80 - 100.


Anecdotal evidence may be unreliable due to cherry-picked or otherwise non-representative samples of typical cases




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