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agotterer
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About agotterer
Contact: agotterer [@] gmail [ my public key: https://keybase.io/a_g; my proof: https://keybase.io/a_g/sigs/UCc_1CBIFHgqvzaWsYzkLG-PTUc9GE8Oj2kmQyaZLi8 ]
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Comment #49097950
I’ve had a lot of success using the root Claude.md for a handful of high level application wide rules and directions (I keep it pretty small), module specific claude.md in subfolde…
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Comment #49086173
I didn't see it explicitly mentioned in the post, I wonder if they filtered exclusively for domains with mx records. Because I would assume that lots of domains just don't have ema…
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Comment #48266837
I subscribed to Kagi for a few months and really wanted to stick with it. For general web searches the results were exactly what I was looking for. It was the lack of local/locatio…
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Comment #48221512
I used Vivaldi for many years and was a huge advocate. The problem for me was the browser got too bloated and buggy. They kept adding functionality that for me wasn’t necessary. Fo…
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Comment #46727239
Zapier also has a free product which works well - https://zapier.com/zappy
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Comment #46325021
I’m a little behind on email, I’ll reply later today. I’ll answer some of the legal right now. First, we are at every event. Not sure how much it matters legally, but we are there …
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Comment #46320987
My partner and I divide and conquer. He focuses on front of house and I handle the backoffice. The process starts ~3 months before the event. We start by picking a theme or region.…
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Comment #46317099
Honestly, I can’t think of anything I would have done differently. Each stage of our growth came with some challenges and lessons. I think we did a pretty good job of internalizing…
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Comment #46314503
We’ve never paid for marketing or advertising. - We are lucky to have a passionate community who tell others about us. - Sometimes we do shared reels with the restaurant, which hel…
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Comment #46312386
We negotiate a per seat all in cost with the restaurant inclusive of food, one drink, tip, and tax. We sell the tickets directly to our members and add some margin on top. Average …
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Comment #46312330
We never intended to make money. The first dinner was with 13 of our friends. We just organized the location and menu. From there people started to tell their friends, who told oth…
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Comment #46312286
Most of it goes to paying for the meal. We make around a 20% margin. Our cost to operate the business is quite low, but we do invest a lot of our personal time into it. It’s a labo…
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Comment #46312208
I think there’s quite a few reasons people come. I’m just going to bullet some of them out in no particular order: - We do the work to find the restaurant and curate a menu, story,…
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Comment #46309364
A friend and I host a monthly dinner club for people interested in ethnic cuisine. We work with a single restaurant each month to create an 8-12 course all inclusive price fixe men…
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Comment #46204580
My interpretation was slightly different than yours. I read it as if they have no issue going to work and being paid to be a developer. However, they didn’t want to feel like they …
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Comment #45970884
Same here. I tried to build a super simple iOS App in antigravity and I was out of quota before it finished. The whole thing was a couple of files and a few hundred lines of code.
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Comment #45421258
In 2023 a friend and I started a monthly dinner club with the goal of eating around the world without getting on a plane. We gather once a month at a restaurant on Long Island for …
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Comment #44879454
I use the main Claude code thread (I don’t know what to call it) for planning and then explicitly tell Claude to delegate certain standalone tasks out to subagents. The subagents d…
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Comment #44705575
I replied to a similar discussion in April 2023 ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35567822#35568411 ) about a dinner club a friend and I host in our free time. We work with a …
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Comment #44383913
I thought I read that best practice was to start a new session every time you work on a new feature / task. That’s what I’ve been doing. I also often ask Claude to update my readme…
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Comment #44379685
I wonder how much of this had to do with the context window size? Gemini’s window is 5x larger than Cladue’s. I’ve been using Claude for a side project for the past few weeks and I…
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Comment #44372382
Microplastics was only one of my concerns. Their “why” page does a good job explaining the benefits. https://weddellwater.com/pages/why-duo
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Comment #44368704
Agreed, already on it! I put Wedell Water filters on all of our shower heads and we have a filtration system for our kitchen sink water. I’d love to get a whole home water filter a…
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Comment #44367859
Thanks, I hadn’t considered the plastic on the pepper grinder. Guess I’ll be looking for a new pepper grinder as I continue my pursuit of removing plastic and dangerous chemicals f…