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Optimizing my sleep around Claude usage limits

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Re: Optimizing my sleep around Claude usage limits

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Post by __MatrixMan__ »

hattmall wrote: post #29
__MatrixMan__ wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On the bright side, those others would have good reason not to give you reasons to deviate from the plan. It was usually social pressure that did me in. People want to meet for coffee or drinks or food at a time when it wasn't well aligned with my nap schedule, and I started making compromises... I suppose something that engages you for hours could appear unscheduled while sailing, but it seems like most sources of s…

>I suppose something that engages you for hours could appear unscheduled while sailing I would say, generally speaking, that comprises the bulk of the time. Most likely you will spend more time in unscheduled multi-hour long tasks than anything else over the course of an extended trip.

Well I guess that shows how much I know about sailing (I've done it once or twice, but never in a hurry or with a lot of distance between ports). Which of these cannot be delayed 45 minutes in order to accommodate a nap?

Re: Optimizing my sleep around Claude usage limits

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__MatrixMan__ wrote: post #61
hattmall wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>I suppose something that engages you for hours could appear unscheduled while sailing I would say, generally speaking, that comprises the bulk of the time. Most likely you will spend more time in unscheduled multi-hour long tasks than anything else over the course of an extended trip.

Well I guess that shows how much I know about sailing (I've done it once or twice, but never in a hurry or with a lot of distance between ports). Which of these cannot be delayed 45 minutes in order to accommodate a nap?

Wind shifts, something breaks, something blows overboard, random water where it shouldn't be. Something is making a funny noise. Some alert on the radio that you didnt catch all of it. Odd smell. People speaking excitedly in a foreign language about something. Something breaks again, hooked a fish, approaching vessel with no signal, coast guard inspection, unexpected military craft telling you to change course. Sure there is downtime, but it's lucky to have it remotely scheduled.

Re: Optimizing my sleep around Claude usage limits

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Post by nine_k »

mareko wrote: post #18

I'm impressed by your determination. A while back, I had a big paper deadline a week away and knew I didn’t have enough time to finish without sacrificing sleep. Rather than cutting my sleep short, I decided to stick with 7–8 hours of rest and instead lengthen my wake window. I worked out a schedule that gave me six nights of sleep across seven days. It meant waking up at stranger and stranger times as the week went…

Worked for me, too, in similar circumstances. 30-32 hours with 8-9 hours of sleep and 21-24 hours of activity is a somehow better sleep/activity ratio, closer to 1/4 than to 1/3. More important for me were longer stretches of uninterrupted concentration time. Likely it's not important in the vibe-coding case.

Re: Optimizing my sleep around Claude usage limits

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Post by bakugo »

sitkack wrote: post #42
BallsInIt wrote: post #34

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Flag them all and hope more do the same.

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Is it really censorship when 90% of AI related posts are just not-so-thinly-veiled advertisements with zero potential for meaningful discussion beyond "yes I agree fellow independent user, I also love Claude Code™ from Anthropic® and it has 1000x'd my productivity, their $5000/mo plan is a steal and everyone should buy it!"

Re: Optimizing my sleep around Claude usage limits

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Post by f137 »

rappatic wrote: post #2

If Claude usage limits are this important to your life, it seems a little smarter to just bite the Claude Max bullet. Isn't an ordinary sleep schedule easily worth $180/month difference?

How many people would click on a "Using multiply Claude accounts to get more code" post?
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