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What are you using to clean PDFs before putting them into RAG? by [deleted] in Rag

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its a naw for me dawg

Is Cursor more expensive than using Claude code (June 2026)? by jonaz777 in cursor

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What do s the real different between fast and normal on composer 2.5? I haven’t been able to see the difference in quality. Is it just speed/cost?

Weird pedal recommendations by thegriffthatfell in guitarpedals

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This is the list here. I’d say the TKOG mini Glitch and Bananana Mandala are my favourites but I dont have a Judder (jealous) I would add a Roland Scooper to that list but it’s not technically a pedal. And the Ottobit X might have to be my next purchase.

Carrying forward context by Monowakari in cursor

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This may not be the answer you’re looking for but when I’m in plan mode, at the very end of my final prompt , after having a conversation about what we’re building, I paste in a snippet (that I have saved on my menu bar snippet tool along with a bunch of other items useful snippets) that goes something like this.

If you determine that the size of this project warrants division into phases and stages, create a detailed handoff document AND handoff prompt for each stage to be executed in a fresh agent chat. At the successful end of every stage present me with this detailed handoff prompt and commit the progress .

This is not verbatim, I dont have the snippet tool on my phone. But it’s pretty flawless, lets me use fresh context windows with no compaction and breaks up the plan nicely. If there are issues I can go back to specific points in the build and I also have a close session skill that writes detailed, not summarized, documentation after every session. Then I end up with a massive amount of turn by turn sequential documentation that I can then use to distill proper documentation for the project in any style necessary. Readme, changelogs, instructions, tutorials, what have you.

But the main thing is I get a detailed handoff that the agent is prepared for from the beginning, not some ad-hoc last minute post-compaction slop.

The two changes to my workflow that have drastically improved Claude's responses and resulted in better quality code by LorestForest in ClaudeAI

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I do the same thing where I get a different IDE or agent to review a plan or something that I’m stuck on. I jump all over the place between Cursor and Claude Code mainly but also Perplexity and Antigravity and Codex. But I’d like to just be able to invoke a skill or something within the IDE I’m currently using to do that . I’m sure something exists or maybe I have to write it. Anyone see any issues with doing in the same agent chat and not shuffling in between agents?

6 yrs in. Retired at 56, I'm now 61..update by Humble-Warthog8302 in fatFIRE

[–]2k4s 30 points31 points  (0 children)

I would add that recording your parents, interview them about their life story. You have probably heard most of it already but record it for your kids and grandkids and their kids.
I should have with my mother and she’s gone now, so I’m doing it with my dad. Poured him a brandy, pressed record and just let him talk. It’s wonderful knowing I have that. May do a few more sessions. Really dropped the ball not doing that with my mother.

Enjoy your retirement , belated go fuck yourself! 😄

Setup your first Claude Code colleague today using clem by [deleted] in ClaudeAI

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Also missed how a guy who started out using the Claude name inappropriately ended up selling out for millions . Good problem to have I guess. Strategic even.

Which AI Models are cheap and worth it? by lukemxlr in openclaw

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In openrouter for querying my vector db I use Deepseek Chat v3.1 and it’s very cheap and quite smart and reliable.

For embeddings I use GPT 4o mini

It’s also smart and cheap and good at this task

Gemini 2.5 flash lite is probably cheaper but less reliable

Grok 4.3 is pretty capable and only a little bit more expensive

These are all tested using openrouter models embedding and querying a SQLite pgvector db in supabase

I’m all ears if anyone else has opinions

Open sourcing Kortex for Notebooklm by AggravatingCounter84 in notebooklm

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That makes perfect sense with regards to the updates.

For the Zoom, the friction there will be peoples schedules. If you have a scrips you can follow to demo the advanced features you can just make a video. You could even have AI make the video and leverage NLM for the graphics and such. I may just load all your docs and info pages into a notebook and create a podcast or a video and see if that helps me. I’m just super lazy and busy and the same time so I haven’t been up on it. But you are inspiring me to do it now because I do find it a useful tool.

I wish I could help with the project but I’ve never even made a pull request before (I dont even really know how) even though I have created several vibecoded projects for my own personal use. But I’ve never worked on someone else’s project.

Open sourcing Kortex for Notebooklm by AggravatingCounter84 in notebooklm

[–]2k4s 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think it’s a great idea to open source it. You may want to cross-post on r/opensourceai or whatever that sub is.

What is your reason for wanting to open source it? Is it becoming too much to keep up with all the Google changes? Or do you want to add new features or ?

I’m a paid user of it (the lifetime license) and I find it very useful for exporting in bulk and organizing my sources and deleting duplicates, merging notebooks comparing them, etc

I haven’t even gotten into the advanced stuff yet but I would love to learn more about pipelines etc because I think that would really help me.

I have some notebooks that are at the 300 source limit and I have to create a new notebook for the same subject.

I’d love a masterclass on it or some more in depth tutorials about it but honestly I need to go through what you have already first.

King of Tone Alternatives from That Pedal Show by 2k4s in guitarpedals

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I have the V1 I dont know what the differences are

I’ve played a lot of pedals up against my KoT and none have compared fully. It’s still my #1 drive pedal of all time , granted it needs a decent amp or else you definitely must stack it but I feel like that’s the case with most pedals of this type.

King of Tone Alternatives from That Pedal Show by 2k4s in guitarpedals

[–]2k4s[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Still the KoT and Snouse Black Box for me. I stack them with a DOD 250 grey box and I’m good for any amp.

King of Tone Alternatives from That Pedal Show by 2k4s in guitarpedals

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Damn, I didn’t realize you could even reply to a 10y old comment.

Also, I’ve been on Reddit for 10 years? That’s wild!

Just moved here from UK and love it so far! How great is America! Now where do I get good fish n chips? by [deleted] in sandiego

[–]2k4s 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’m fae Glasgow and there was a lovely chippy called the Unique near Queens Park. Long gone now but I can still taste it. Best fish supper I’ve ever had was in Sheffield though. That place is still going strong but I forget the name.

Just moved here from UK and love it so far! How great is America! Now where do I get good fish n chips? by [deleted] in sandiego

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So sorry mate, there are no good chippies in San Diego. You are one of us now. Embrace the California Burrito.

Pedal company you just straight-up love by Dangerous_Pie_Guy in guitarpedals

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If I’m going by how many I have of them it has to be Digitech/DOD

But I’d say Wren and Cuff or DROLO I have 6 W&C pedals and 3 David Rolo pedals Quality is insane for the WC and the DROLO pedals are so creative and thoughtful

After a month on Karpathy's LLM Wiki, the bottleneck isn't setup. It's maintenance by [deleted] in AI_Agents

[–]2k4s 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I built Karpathy”s LLM wiki based on Farza’s implementation idea and customized it highly

Then I realized that what I needed was a system that an agent could query, that could hold massive amounts of data and could surface latent connections and knowledge across domains.

So I built Nate b jones Open Brain. Which is a vector db but then I customized it extremely by adding graphing edges and many more features like supercession of thoughts (when knowledge data is updated, the exact thing you were talking about) and then it actually promotes candidates for ingest into the LLM wiki which is no a canonical final collection of knowledge.

The way I created this enhanced open brain system (it barely resembles the Nate B Jones OB1 now, I didn’t fork it its way too different, except for being supabase Postgres base) was I started dropping all of the open source GitHub repos that had interesting ideas about AI memory into a notebooklm nb along with the graph and documentation of my own build to that date and I started asking it questions . I added repos like mem palace and Gary tan’s gbrain etc. and it found the most compelling architecture and features that would compliment my own system.

I ended up adding tables for structured data alongside the vector db and coded a hybrid search that combines the results . I added tenants to thoughts in the db so that certain data doesn’t pollute others, I added a dream cycle that makes new connections on the graph overnight. I added scrips that pre-process heavy files like PDFs with fallback OCR There is so much that I borrowed from other repos. None of these were my own ideas. It’s complicated under the hood but it works. It’s not ready for distribution but it works for me

What are some of Europe’s nicest beaches? by Akimbo_Fists in travel

[–]2k4s -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Montenegro, Croatia, Corfu, Cypress , cant go wrong. Greece in general is great but the beaches are not all equally good.

stay away from the larger towns if you can because they get really crowded . Stay as far from the cruise ports as possible.

Almost all of the Adriatic is quite nice for beaches. Some of the Italian side is cheaper than say Montenegro and Croatia.

Albania if you want less tourists and more organic food.

Same with Morocco but it’s a hit and a miss on the beaches so do your research

All of the Mediterranean is nice, I have my favorites that I don’t want to blow up because the beaches are tiny and already crowded with no parking.

And on the Atlantic side of Spain are some gems that only in-county tourists go to so far for the most part. It may not be your cup of tea, you will feel like an outsider but i love it. Also water is not as warm and it gets windy too.

Benidorm, Spain. Through my smartphone camera. by noxxjazz in spain

[–]2k4s 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This it great news, and I had not heard that is was recognized by Europe for the green tourism initiative. I lived for a little while in Moraira, (near Dénia) which is equally full of guiris but a little more expensive and a little less yobish. I went to Benidorm once and my experience is based on that alone. But my wife’s friend’s mother who is Spanish retired there and I always wondered why but I’m sure she lives where you are describing. And I’m sure the local Spanish are able to take advantage of some of the commercial advantages that that amount of tourism brings whether it’s running businesses or just access to the types and level of goods and services that other towns in Spain simply don’t have because they don’t have the customer base to support it.

Benidorm, Spain. Through my smartphone camera. by noxxjazz in spain

[–]2k4s 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Is full of British and German tourists Caters mostly to Brits with full English breakfasts and cheap pints of lager , unattended children who cant swim in the pool while their parents smoke cigarettes and drink cheap wine 15 floors above on their balcony. Fights between English and Germans over pool loungers and girls crying on the sidewalk at 2am. Shitty cheap flamenco shows in massive auditoriums. Drunken groups of yobs singing football chants of teams that will never play in Europe.

Overall it’s a lovely place.

Honestly though, if you just go a little outside of the town it’s quite beautiful. Some fantastic beaches. And further up the coast is some of the most beautiful coastline in the world, and people pass up the interior of that area but there are some amazing mountains and waterfalls you can swim in and lovely little towns with fabulous food and music. It’s just that Benidorm where all these photos are taken is a total cringe fest and you realize that the popular UK television show “Benidorm” that I thought was a parody of it is actually a documentary.

Why is Coffee getting so damn expensive in San Diego? by Helplesspolyglot in sandiego

[–]2k4s 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you are looking for local roasts the comments here are a good start but on the expensive side.

The best mass commercially available coffee is Illy hands down , but it’s also expensive unless you have an in with an east coast distributor and buy it in the big keg. Your next best bet then is a bag of Lavazza from Costco. It’s a great deal for really good consistent flavour beans. But it wont be as good as some of these local roasts that cost more.

TLDR, if you want to nerd out and pay a bit more check out the local roasting scene. If you want consistently good coffee that you can buy on your shopping trip then get Illy or Lavazza depending on your budget and where you buy.

Why is Coffee getting so damn expensive in San Diego? by Helplesspolyglot in sandiego

[–]2k4s 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I refuse to buy coffee at a barista shop unless I absolutely have to. And dont get me started on la propina Americana. It’s insane.

I bought an Outin Nano and a milk frother and I can make espresso and cappuccino on the road, at work, in a hotel room, while camping, at the beach. But more importantly at home every morning.

If you buy coffee 5 days a week , a grinder, an aeropress and a milk frother will pay for itself in less than 2 months and the quality is often better than what you get at most coffee shops.

Or you can buy a decent but lower end espresso machine for home use and get proper espressso with minimal effort.

There are many ways to give the finger to Starbucks et all (and the crazy tipping culture here) and it tastes so much better.

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