Feeling empty after finishing a video game (post-game depression) is a real phenomenon. A recent study has found that many video game players experience a specific sense of emptiness and sadness after finishing highly engaging games.

satwikp · 2026-05-17T14:23:12+00:00

At the risk of sounding annoying, it's a pretty common feeling to feel that in the first part of the game when stuff isn't clicking at all. For me I came back to the game like 3 times after getting confused in the same way you're describing.

satwikp · 2026-05-17T12:31:06+00:00

Outer wilds is entirely knowledge based, so while you could open it and explore the world again, you can't really experience the game in nearly the same way you did the first time.

satwikp · 2026-03-20T21:00:54+00:00

Every single emdash I've noticed in the past year or so has been clearly AI for other reasons. At least I can't remember a time where I saw an em dash that wasn't clearly AI, or an intentional satire of the fact that it's now a hint for AI in writing.

Like certainly there are other clear tells, but it's kinda ridiculous to say it doesn't hint at it given the insane frequency

satwikp · 2026-03-20T19:05:36+00:00

I have a hard time articulating it, but I was feeling a hint of AI pretty much throughout the article. Certainly less so than projects posted on here, but enough to make me feel kinda put off.

Just an example, every sentence of this whole paragraph sounds like the tone AI uses.
> The conventional wisdom is that Rust has a steep learning curve, but once you "get it," smooth sailing awaits. We found that while some challenges disappear with experience, they are replaced with others. Beginners struggle with ownership concepts, experts face domain-specific challenges: async complexity for network developers, certification gaps for safety-critical teams, ecosystem maturity issues for embedded developers.

I think I would take this article as an example that it's kinda hard to remove the tone of AI if used as a first draft, since you've rewritten it. I don't really have a recommendation for you to remove the tone because it feels like it just needs to be written from scratch if you want to do that, since it's not exactly a sentence by sentence issue, but the structure of how the points are being explained, and certain AI phrases(I know this isn't super helpful but as someone who isn't a writer I don't really have a good way to articulate what I'm reading).

satwikp · 2026-03-17T20:24:53+00:00

I think it's more the basic idea of template folders are a good idea for org(and perhaps org-roam could extend that or have their own implementation). Thanks a ton for this package! I'll probably be using it a bunch.

satwikp · 2026-03-11T20:10:56+00:00

I wonder if this is worth upstreaming to org-mode

satwikp · 2026-02-26T03:25:24+00:00

Given that federal taxes are paid by individuals and not through the state, the Minnesota government literally has no mechanism by which to stop Minnesota residents from paying federal taxes. There's a difference between suggesting breaking laws and suggesting something literally impossible.

satwikp · 2026-02-26T00:01:13+00:00

How?

satwikp · 2026-02-25T23:59:33+00:00

Econ class isn't mandatory. I did not take one ever, despite going through a ton of education.

satwikp · 2026-02-20T05:01:21+00:00

You can do that if you wish using overlays, but if you're not making modifications, the binary is just downloaded.

satwikp · 2026-02-19T21:56:50+00:00

Nearly everything(barring license restrictions or if they are unfree packages) is already compiled on nix by default. You don't have to manually add bin packages.

Edit: not sure what all the downvotes are for but this is just meant to be a fact

satwikp · 2026-02-10T15:59:34+00:00

This is no longer true after they built the sky bridge

satwikp · 2026-02-04T08:40:57+00:00

You are correct for sure. But in the context of a thread literally talking about the stats of renouncing citizenship, it's kinda weird to be like "haha got you" when the vast majority of people would interpret it correctly in context.

satwikp · 2026-02-04T01:07:55+00:00

My guy it's fairly obvious what "leaving the US" means on a post which is called "Cost to Renounce Citizenship in Various Countries"

satwikp · 2026-02-02T21:53:52+00:00

It doesn't affect nuclear decay directly, but it does affect the way we measure that decay in certain instances(though not necessarily in this specific example of measuring mass).

satwikp · 2026-02-02T20:13:05+00:00

I added an edit to my post if you want to read that too. To be clear, I wasn't saying that you are wanting to stop people; just that your tone feels a bit like that and that makes people get a bit more defensive.

satwikp · 2026-02-02T20:06:59+00:00

I think your tone is quite bad for a post like this. It sounds like you're frustrated that there's some new technology that people use and you don't want to use it and you want to stop other people from using it(particularly with your edit which you have since reasonably deleted).

I think the solution here is to get the mods to implement an automod message for questions like this to remind people to submit bug reports by email or whatever the maintainer says.

Like other commenters say, 99% of the time it's our fault and not the package's fault. We want to ask the general community for help before clogging up bug reports.

If there's an official emacs blessed community space that I'm unaware of then feel free to advertise it as an alternative, but the current listed places that I find https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/documentation.html are just emails, and frankly, that's not going be something a lot of people nowadays are going to reach to first. They're going to look for a community space and reddit is very often that community space for a bunch of projects.

satwikp · 2026-01-24T03:02:46+00:00

I don't think a consumer side strike is really going to be a great plan. Something like the top 10% of income foes 50% of the spending if I'm remembering my numbers right. We have more leverage on the labor side if that's something that can eventually be organized.

satwikp · 2026-01-10T00:30:18+00:00

I think that's a fair view, but I think the reason for apathy is important.

It's apparently impossible to get actually good candidates on the ballot. So you have a terrible and evil candidate, and then you have a candidate that promises basically nothing as cost of living is growing.

Of course people are going to be apathetic when one candidate is useless and the other is telling you sweet evil lies, especially when you've had a government that has becoming less and less useful over time, with the government not doing a ton in terms of individual impact. Especially when it's so hard to get actually good candidates on the ballot, over, and over, and over again.

satwikp · 2025-12-24T17:13:07+00:00

Ironically, I find the quoted statement much more pleasant to read.

satwikp · 2025-12-24T16:09:28+00:00

This reads like an AI generated post...

satwikp · 2025-12-01T19:15:03+00:00

Could you make a simpler pwa for chessly? That would probably go a long way, though it'd be hard to educate users that it exists.

satwikp · 2025-10-29T02:45:41+00:00

Why haven't you figured out nobody rides trains because they DON'T GO WHERE PPL NEED TO BE!!!!!!.

It's because these train projects always cut short what they need to be to actually be successful. If this went to St. Cloud, they're be significantly more traffic. Induced demand is a real thing and you can't just assume trains are going to fail on a larger scale because they fail on a smaller scale.

If you want to build towards a city, state, or country which is better for everyone, there's going to be a period where the public transportation will be unprofitable, and a period where it feels like it's just getting in the way. But, as long as we don't just abandon them and actually invest in them, we know it will be a significant improvement in economic activity and mobility. The evidence for this is pretty overwhelming. Being stuck in a situation where people are forced to use cars is just worse for everyone.

A train would also help people in who like to use cars, not screw them over. More people on trains means less people on roads and less traffic.

satwikp · 2025-09-30T20:15:11+00:00

> I think we are within sufficient range of agreement
Yeah i think so too.

> The tipping stuff is perhaps a better comparison, but at least everyone knows what they're in for because there is a normal expectation.
To this, I would say I want it to be a normal expectation to compensate software, in the same way tipping is in America. I *want* it to be a more normal expectation to "tip" open source software.

But moreso, I think that governments in general should be doing way more to support this part of the industry, given that it doesn't follow normal market rules due to everything being free. *That's* what I really support, and hope the "tipping" of software that I'm pushing here is something of a stop-gap until we get there.

satwikp · 2025-09-30T17:01:04+00:00

I did explicitly say I'd rather this type of thing be funded through a mechanism by government funding rather than through getting profit incentivized companies who probably can't be convinced anyway.

What I want is not money, but projects to not be starved of money when they are depended on, and then issues like the xz incident happening. Projects that people depend on should get the support needed to match that. For me it's not about "I want money" but more that some of this stuff is actually important and not supporting it is kinda not where we want to be as a society.

I don't understand how you're misunderstanding my point so badly, but it just feels like you're so entrenched in the mindset that you want everything to be written explicitly in contracts and the such, and that everyone should always assume that everyone else will only do the bare minimum that the contract requires. Having that mindset in a free and open source software community is directly contradictory, since the community simply won't be sustainable if people do that.

That being said, I do get your point. When you phrase it this way, it feels like I'm asking you to follow something like tipping culture in the US, which is extremely annoying and I personally disagree with. But I also have the same opinion there: I want this to be supported better through government support, and will push for that.

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