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What would you do with 52 hours a week of discretionary time?

What would you do with 52 hours a week of discretionary time? Make your time count. Published: 04 June 2023 Productivity Tim Urban has a good article describing how we have 100 10-minute "blocks" per day when we aren't sleeping. It's a great article, but I want to reframe it a little. I just filled out his graph for my weekdays: 8 hours doing school, 2 hours of eating, 50m each of commute & self-care. So after a typical weekday I only have 30 blocks = 300 minutes left of discretionary time

Setting serial baud rate on ESP-IDF does nothing

What are we talking about? This line of code that appears in pretty much every single Arduino sketch/project: Serial.begin(115200); This line of code is everywhere - a quick search on GitHub finds over 450,000 instances of it. GitHub Search I started to question this when I was testing out my new boards. I was streaming audio from the board and noticed that the rate I was receiving data at bore no relation to the baud rate I was setting. Audio testing If we look closely at the image, we ca

Non-Hormonal Male Birth Control Pill Passes Key Test

For many couples, the numerous options for birth control still come with plenty of hassles. But scientists are working on an alternative approach that might be more appealing for some: a non-hormonal male birth control pill with possibly very few side effects. The drug is codenamed YCT-529, and it’s being developed by the company YourChoice Therapeutics, in conjunction with researchers from the University of Minnesota and others. In early human trial results published this week, YCT-529 appeare

Leaked Pixel 10 specs hint this lineup will be a little heavier in your pocket

TL;DR The dimensions and weights for all four Google Pixel 10 models have been revealed in a new leak. Footprints are similar, but all models are heavier than their Pixel 9 counterparts. The devices are set to be unveiled on August 20. While the various and mostly muted colorways for the Pixel 10 series have already surfaced, we were still awaiting the dimensions of the upcoming Google devices. A new leak has now revealed the official measurements for all four models, and while they look simi

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Hiding messages in a deck playing cards

hiding messages in playing cards I was recently thinking about the huge number of ways you can shuffle a deck of 52 cards and wondered if it would be possible to store arbitrary data, which I explore in this blog post. This blog post will go into the detail of how I found a way to store text inside the order of a deck of cards. If you want to play around with the tool, go here. How many different ways can we shuffle a deck of 52 cards? We can think of it like picking one card from 52, then one

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Alienware's 27-inch 280Hz QD-OLED monitor is now available for $550

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . Alienware has just released a pair of gaming monitors that offer affordability with very few compromises while using Dell's new AW30 design language. Announced earlier this year, the key model is the 27-inch AW2725D 280Hz QD-OLED QHD (2,560 x 1,440) monitor with one of the lowest price

Review: BenQ GP520 unlocks Vision Pro movie night vibes for Apple TV 4K, gaming, more

I’ve tested a few BenQ products lately. My favorite has been their Mac monitor with Apple Studio Display specs and a more affordable price. The most fun? A new category for me: projectors. The GP520 4K HDR model BenQ loaned me to test alleviated my concerns about the practicality of a projector instead of a TV. Why this projector feels fun to use What’s so fun about a projector? Watching movies and TV shows with Apple Vision Pro is great. You can recreate the experience of watching video on a

Amazon Slashes $2,000 Dell Laptop by 73%, This 4.8-Star Computer Is Practically Free for Early Prime Day

The 4th of July and Prime Day are still a little bit down the road, but the biggest and best Amazon deal on a high-end laptop might have arrived a couple of weeks early. The Dell Vostro 3520, a $2,000 laptop packed with all the speed and power you’ll ever need, is just $549 during this limited-time deal. That’s a 73% discount that’s just come out of nowhere. The Vostro 3520 has a 15.6-inch FHD anti-glare screen, a blazing-fast Intel Core i3 processor, massive 1TB built-in hard drive, 32GB of RA

Ask HN: Is ageism in tech still a problem?

Well, it's been a while since I touched this theme. 6 years ago, I launched a job board trying to fight ageism in tech (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20252097) It did super well in terms of upvotes and comments but not $ speaking (made $0) This seems to be a current problem but what's the solution?