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Here are some hints -- and the answers -- for the Nov. 18 Strands puzzle, No. 260.

Article URL: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/authors/jm-coetzee-zbigniew-herbert-poetry-penguin-modern-classics/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42169594

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Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-powered-ammo-vending-machines-could-be-hacked-expert-us-2024-7

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42169581

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1) The best hygiene for beginning writers or intermediate writers is to write a hell of a lot of short stories. If you can write one short story a week—it doesn’t matter what the quality is to start, but at least you’re practicing, and at the end of the year you have 52 short stories, and I defy you to write 52 bad ones. Can’t be done. At the end of 30 weeks or 40 weeks or at the end of the year, all of a sudden a story will come that’s just wonderful.

2) What you’ve got to do from this night forward is stuff your head with more different things from various fields . . . I’ll give you a program to follow every night, very simple program. For the next thousand nights, before you go to bed every night, read one short story. That’ll take you ten minutes, 15 minutes. Okay, then read one poem a night from the vast history of poetry. Stay away from most modern poems. It’s crap. It’s not poetry! It’s not poetry. Now if you want to kid yourself and write lines that look like poems, go ahead and do it, but you’ll go nowhere. Read the great poets, go back and read Shakespeare, read Alexander Pope, read Robert Frost. But one poem a night, one short story a night, one essay a night, for the next 1,000 nights. From various fields: archaeology, zoology, biology, all the great philosophers of time, comparing them. Read the essays of Aldous Huxley, read Lauren Eisley, great anthropologist. . . I want you to read essays in every field. On politics, analyzing literature, pick your own. But that means that every night then, before you go to bed, you’re stuffing your head with one poem, one short story, one essay—at the end of a thousand nights, Jesus God, you’ll be full of stuff, won’t you?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42169533

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Article URL: https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/scrumlord_regime

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42169521

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Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/lina-khan-ftc-antitrust-khanservatives-a6852a8f

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42169519

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Article URL: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/11/linux-kernel-6-12-has-landed-and-its-a-big-one

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42169518

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Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/technology/fcc-nominee-brendan-carr-trump.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42169481

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Article URL: https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/MissingTextProgrammingEnvironment

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42169467

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Article URL: https://lookmovie2-official.lol/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42169437

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Article URL: http://paddy3118.blogspot.com/2024/05/recreating-cvm-algorithm-for-estimating.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42169425

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Article URL: https://lwn.net/Articles/997958/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42169418

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Article URL: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/Neil_Mcelroy%27s_1931_Brand_Man_Memo.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42169417

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Article URL: https://blog.arkency.com/the-difference-between-turbo-streams-and-turbo-frames/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42169390

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Article URL: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14068925/Apple-quietly-discontinuing-flagship-device-lackluster-sales.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42169389

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Article URL: https://fusionauth.io/blog/understanding-multifactor-authentication-mfa

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42169387

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Article URL: https://www.bostonmagazine.com/life-style/luxury-kids-parties/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42169386

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Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/realestate/plumbing-save-water-pipes.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42169383

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Article URL: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/longform/2024/11/17/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-new-delhi-roadside-barber

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42169381

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Asking for a friend who is interviewing right now: for life reasons he would really appreciate a fully remote job. Do you think prospective employers/hiring managers have fixed remote policies or is there flexibility if they're willing to give up some compensation? Is there an approach that is better than just asking directly?

Asking about a full range of companies, not just FAANG.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42169376

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