What will the world be like in 2000 years? Basically no change.
Man Plays Civilisation II For 10 Years, World Disintegrates into ‘Nightmare Of Suffering’ (PHOTOS)
What will the world be like in 2000 years?
According to one visionary using a computer simulation, the distant future will be a “hellish nightmare of suffering and devastation”, largely uninhabitable, flooded and beset by in-fighting, nuclear war and periodic annihilation.
I suspect a few people in my family will find this interesting.
Cyclists’ improvement of pedaling efficacy and performance after heavy strength training
The authors tested whether heavy strength training, including hip-flexion exercise, would reduce the extent of the phase in the crank revolution where negative or retarding crank torque occurs. Negative torque normally occurs in the upstroke phase when the leg is lifted by flexing the hip. Eighteen well-trained cyclists either performed 12 wk of heavy strength training in addition to their usual endurance training (E+S; n = 10) or merely continued their usual endurance training during the intervention period (E; n = 8). The strength training consisted of 4 lower body exercises (3 × 4-10 repetition maximum) performed twice a week. E+S enhanced cycling performance by 7%, which was more than in E (P = .02). Performance was determined as average power output in a 5-min all-out trial performed subsequent to 185 min of submaximal cycling. The performance enhancement, which has been reported previously, was here shown to be accompanied by improved pedaling efficacy during the all-out cycling. Thus, E+S shortened the phase where negative crank torque occurs by ~16°, corresponding to ~14%, which was more than in E (P = .002). In conclusion, adding heavy strength training to usual endurance training in well-trained cyclists improves pedaling efficacy during 5-min all-out cycling performed after 185 min of cycling.
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Bacon Jello
Bacon jello. Yes, it’s bacon-flavored jello that looks like you’re slicing into a nice, thick slab of home-cured bacon. Think of it less as dessert, and more as a surprisingly edible piece of concept art. This jello has a dairy base flavored with bacon (of course!), a mix of maple syrup and flamed and reduced Calvados, and applewood smoke.
I’m anxious to try this out.
Ember.js – About
Traditional web applications make the user download a new page every time they interact with the server. This means that every interaction is never faster than the latency between you and the user, and usually slower. Using AJAX to replace only parts of the page helps somewhat, but still requires a roundtrip to your server every time your UI needs to update. And if multiple parts of the page need to update all at once, most developers just resort to loading the page over again, since keeping everything in sync is tricky.
Ember.js, like some other modern JavaScript frameworks, works a little differently. Instead of the majority of your application’s logic living on the server, an Ember.js application downloads everything it needs to run in the initial page load. That means that while your user is using your app, she never has to load a new page and your UI responds quickly to their interaction.
One advantage of this architecture is that your web application uses the same REST API as your native apps or third-party clients. Back-end developers can focus on building a fast, reliable, and secure API server, and don’t have to be front-end experts, too.
Any book about Commodore is on my reading list. You can read it for free, or buy it from Amazon. I really liked Commodore: A Company on the Edge, which told the story of Commodore from the beginning to the sad end. Amiga Forever!
10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10
10 PRINT is a book about a one-line Commodore 64 BASIC program, published in November 2012. Book purchases support the nonprofit organizations PLAYPOWER (to which all royalties are being donated) and The MIT Press, the book’s publisher.
