Calmness protips wanted: I have a high stress job as a principal engineer. Lots of my work is effectively breaking the world when I find that previous assumptions won't scale, and then convincing a bunch of teams of this new reality. If I'm thinking about a problem my heart rate drops into the low 40s, but if I'm actively expending of social capital it's up in the 50s. I can track this stress. One thing I find calming is to blast music until I feel it in my bones, but sometimes I forget to do this.
Do any of you have a sort of calmness checklist or visual reminder to adopt certain practices every day?
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66 tagsA Boston Dynamics robot dog was used to infiltrate a home of a person who had guns and had barricaded himself. The robot was shot multiple times but credited with helping the prevent the shooter from hitting officers or other members of the public during subsequent apprehension.
First time that a BD robot has been shot at.
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56 tagshttps://interestingengineering.com/innovation/4-5-million-times-faster-internet-aston-university-makes-it-possible
In a new groundbreaking development, researchers at Aston University have achieved a internet’s data transmission speed that is a staggering 4.5 million times faster than the average home broadband. This unprecedented rate is the fastest ever recorded, achieved by utilizing specific new wavelength bands that have not been previously used in fiber optic systems.
As part of an international collaboration, the team transferred data at a rate of 301 terabits per second, or 301,000,000 megabits per second, using a single, standard optical fiber.
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45 tagsSorry to ruin your streaming ops, but no more using your dick as a green screen for streaming on Twitch
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39 tagsApparently bustin' makes you feel *reaaly* good...
https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/why-ghostbusters-ernie-hudson-still-works-constantly-after-60-years/ -
35 tagslol I just saw a cyber truck irl walking past a Tesla showroom. I went in to look at it in person and it’s just as dumb as you’d think it is
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32 tagsFourth Star Trek movie with Chris Pine still a go
https://variety.com/2024/film/news/star-trek-4-screenwriter-steve-yockey-1235953186/ -
31 tagsGet a free UHD digital copy of 2001: A Space Odyssey via Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/2001-Space-Odyssey-Douglas-Rain/dp/B000GOUXES