Yogesh Dixit

I switched to our community gym during 2023 Though it has a very basic set-up it solves the purpose And since then I became a big fan of these Indian club bells (not usually available in most professional gyms IMHO) These are very basic and lighter but provide enough stimulus These exercises are great not just for strengthening shoulders & defining pecs & back muscles, but also super helpful in improving grip & increasing shoulder mobility A powerful workout to be had in our regimen !

Bro, don't encourage them. This was Sinhagad Road once upon a time (1991 as per @ameetgsingh and I starkly remember every trip to Sinhagad with lots of Banyan trees on the way as a child). You'll not find a single tree on the road now. All the banyan trees on this road are destroyed for flyovers and road expansion. They will do the same with Nashik if you allow it.

The story behind the rise of USB-A is wild. In 1990, an Intel engineer named Ajay Bhatt couldn't get his wife's printer to work for their daughter's school project. A printer. In his own house. He was a senior architect at the world's biggest chip company, and he couldn't make a printer talk to a PC without rebooting three times and opening the case. He pitched the idea of a universal connector to his managers. They didn't just pass. They told him nobody would want it. Bhatt switched teams, found a manager who said yes, and spent the next four years convincing Compaq, IBM, Microsoft, NEC, and Nortel to sit in the same room and agree on a single plug. Seven companies that competed on everything else agreed to share one connector. The USB 1.0 standard shipped in January 1996. Almost nobody used it. Windows 95 barely supported it. USB was basically dead on arrival. Then Steve Jobs did something nobody expected. He shipped the 1998 iMac as USB-only. No serial port, no parallel port, no floppy drive. Just USB. Apple, the company that fought standards harder than anyone, single-handedly forced an entire industry onto Bhatt's connector. Intel owned the patents. They made the entire thing royalty-free. Any manufacturer on earth could build a USB-A port for pennies. By 2009, 6 billion USB products were in the market, with 2 billion more shipping every year. Making the connector reversible would have doubled the cost, so Bhatt kept it one-sided to keep adoption cheap. "In hindsight, we blew it," he said years later. The most cursed design decision in consumer electronics, and it was a deliberate trade. USB-A killed serial ports, parallel ports, PS/2 connectors, game ports, and eventually the floppy disk. One rectangle replaced an entire generation of cables. The connector is 30 years old and as of 2024, Type-A still accounted for 46% of all USB device shipments. Billions of ports in airplane seatbacks, hotel nightstands, hospital beds, and office walls. The EU mandated USB-C on all new devices in December 2024. The installed base of USB-A will take 20 years to turn over. One guy's printer problem became the most successful connector standard in computing history. And now the rest of us carry a bag of dongles everywhere we go because of it.

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#रामराम 🙏 #Hanumanjayanti

This is me playing Pete Sampras. Center court. Queens Club. Before Wimbledon. Pete won 14 Grand Slams. I was ranked 117 in the world. This was my breakfast of champions: A bowl of cereal A glass of orange juice Whole wheat toast A banana I thought I was fueling greatness. I was fueling a heart attack. 🧵

Mumbai could have built a modern coastal commuter railway moving 10× more people, like the Rodalies de Catalunya I rode in Barcelona. Instead, it chose a massive bridge in the sea for cars, the least efficient and most polluting way to move a city. 🚇🌊

This Dutch insurance ad is wild

@serioustaurean Jai Mata Di 🙏

Started walking from Tarakote for Bhavan at 8.50 am. Reached Ma Vaishno sannidhi at 12.30pm ಶ್ರೀರಾಮ ನವಮಿಯ ಶುಭಾಶಯಗಳು Jai Mata Di 🙏🏽🙏🏽

शुभ राम नवमी। --------------------- राम, रामभद्र, या रामचन्द्र, ऐसा स्मरण करते हुए मनुष्य पाप में लिप्त नहीं होता है और समृद्धि तथा मुक्ति प्राप्त करता है। #sanskrit #ramnavami #lordram #culture #festival #inspiration #wisdom #ramayana #india #ramnavami2023

Iran is now releasing cartoons that Trump can understand. 😂🤣👇

How Iran managed to hit the U.S. F 35 but failed to destroy it.

I definitely believe the lipid-based view is overhyped. This study is telling (in females): pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33471027/. I've attached the main figure here. The evidence is surprising--both at how irrelevant the lipid markers appear to be and how strong the metabolic markers are. ApoB and other lipid markers may matter, but diabetes and metabolic status appears to matter much more. ApoB appeared to carry a two-fold risk, while diabetes carried a 10X risk.

Guys, relax, the only risk in transiting the Strait of Hormuz is that Iran will shoot a missile at your ship. Otherwise it's open for transit. An all-time quote from our Secretary of War.

🚨 Shame on Shubman Gill 🚨 Gill edited a photo he posted on Instagram and removed Sanju Samson from it. What is the point of erasing the Player of the Tournament from a picture? If India won the T20 WC, Sanju Samson played one of the biggest roles in that victory. It’s understandable that Samson replaced Gill in the team and that might have caused some frustration, but this kind of behavior looks very petty. Many people have already pointed this out in the comments on his post.

The goat in India. India has approximately 148 million goats. The largest goat population in the world. This is not coincidental. India has approximately 80% of its population that is Hindu, for whom the cow is sacred and beef is not eaten: religiously, culturally, practically not an option for most. India also has approximately 14% of its population that is Muslim, for whom pork is forbidden. The goat is the animal that fits both. The goat is halal. The goat is acceptable to Hindus. The goat produces milk, meat, fibre, and manure without violating any dietary code of any major Indian religious tradition. The goat is India's ruminant. It grazes the scrubland and semi-arid land that is not in crop production. It provides milk to rural households with no cattle access. It provides meat protein: complete, bioavailable, ancestral protein, to communities that cannot access the beef that would otherwise be the obvious choice. It is the smallholder's insurance policy and emergency fund. The goat is doing in India precisely what the goat has always done across human history: providing the nutrition that the restrictive system around it cannot otherwise supply. India has 148 million goats because India needs 148 million goats. The goat found its way in. The goat always finds its way in. Where the cow is forbidden, the goat arrives. The goat has always arrived.

"It's a little embarrassing that after forty-five years of research and study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to one another." —Aldous Huxley Yehan Wang art

Launching today - The Hunger Code - This is my first new book in 6 years and I'm super excited as I think it adds an important dimension to the discussion of weight loss. Check it out! doctorjasonfung.com

McDonald’s CEO Chris Kempczinski goes viral after seeming reluctant to eat his own burgers—he takes a tiny bite, looks uncomfortable, and calls the food ‘product.’ 👀 🍔 😳

Good news: Another study showing that fasting can help cancer patients. A 16 hour fast enhanced the cancer-killing activity of T cells and synergized with immunotherapy to reduce tumor size, ostensibly by causing cancer cells to release the amino isoleucine... 🧵