This program was so good, I was most of the way through it before it managed to help me land a better job. But now I have no idea if I'll ever finish it because it's pretty time consuming

The best two classes are AOS and HPC imo. Very grateful to Profs Ramachandran and Vuduc

AOS (and its prerequisite) gives a really strong foundation for working on infrastructure.

HPC pushed me farther than any other class I've done, it's very unique, helped me land my current gig

> Seeing it as a book about psychology that revolves around theological themes, when it is a book about theology that revolves around psychological themes.

I don't think Dostoevsky's Christianity is genuine. It feels about as genuine as Hegel's Christianity. To both of them it's just a convenient prop where their actual ideas take center stage

Every nihilist main character that he writes follows this pattern where they do something really bad, then destroy themselves as some kind of act of penance. This is the only way that conversion happens in his books. But in this case, it's obviously just a way of processing guilt (and reenacting the author's trauma from near execution most likely)

Maybe I'm psychologizing religion too much, but I don't think religious belief is genuine if it's rooted in some kind of (obvious) psychological trauma

The one thing that stands out in Dostoevsky is the psychological depth of the characters, especially in Demons

That is very interesting to read as I view him as very genuinely Christian. I would not agree with your description of the nihlist characters. I see it that mostly the (self)destructive acts are earlier nihilist actions and only then after facing and having accepted the consequences, the repentance emerges like in Crime and Punishment. The ones that stay nihilistic and don’t repent at all still face destruction.

I tend to agree with bayareapsycho that Dostoyevsky doesn't feel genuinely christian. In his books God is derived out of ultimate necessity, it's the only sane way to survive. If you follow that line of thought you can come to a conclusion that if God didn't exist people would have to invent him. And if that's the case then maybe they DID invent him after all. It's just that it doesn't matter.

Dostoyevsky himself never goes that far in his books but I feel that the direction is set pretty clearly. It could be that I'm reading my thoughts into his works though.

So what counts as a genuine Christian in your view?

I can agree with that his books often suggest that God is the only sane way to survive, but I don‘t agree that this reduces him to only a useful necessity.

Ironically the conclusion you are making aligns very closely with what the Grand Inquisitor is preaching to Christ. And as the Grand Inquisitor is Ivan’s story, and not a plot in the book, I feel like Dostoyevsky is tackling that exact topic very prominently in the book on multiple levels. Especially through the response of the kiss.

> So what counts as a genuine Christian in your view?

I assumed that among other things it requires just accepting that God exists whether we need him or not. The practicality of having God around seems off to me, but in the end I'm not a genuine Christian myself so it's hard to judge.

The funniest thing about events like this is that they're targeted pretty much exclusively to men, but there are plenty of women who'd be more than happy to fish in a pod full of rich guys

So the poly chicks who are running this thing are really just gatekeeping a bunch of rich simps. The "serious" monogamous women have to be kept out or they'll lose their clientele pretty quick

I agree with the sentiment of this but I don't think the root issue is state involvement

The root issue is that the state is involved in the wrong way. It refuses to fund childcare, so marriage is economically incentivized.

But then it makes divorce super financially one-sided and easy to get, so now high earners will try to avoid marriage. But high earners are the ones who make marriage worthwhile, per the above point

Then it has LGBT acceptance in urban centers now, so there's an easy, convenient, and legally protected way for people to avoid the whole marriage pipeline

The only real fix we have for this is to just import more people, who knows whether that will pan out

In general though, I agree with the sentiment that for high earning men it's the shittiest deal imaginable and even the extreme option of dying alone is better

What's the source on this?

I know it's a thing in Canada, Australia, and Washington state (if you cohabitate for some number of years, they can claim that it's a "de-facto relationship" and get property division). Apparently the current UK government is trying to push it

I looked up for Germany and found nothing

i could have sworn that this would be the case in germany too. but it turns out that there are practically no rights or obligations on separation except child support. property division only happens if both partners made a significant contribution, eg to a house. so if you pay for half of the house you can assume shared ownership of that house, but you may have to fight for it in court. you have to pay child support because it is the right of the child, which exists regardless of the relationship of the parents. another exception is financial support from the government. for that the income of your unmarried partner will be considered if you live in the same household, but that is obviously not relevant on separation.

the keyword to look up is "Eheähnliche Gemeinschaft".

It used to be more spread out with a strong valley presence, but over the past couple years they've been force reloing people to Arkansas. It really started to ramp up at about the time I left

In my old org of 80ish, like half of them were from Telegana. All of management was from there. In total, at least 80% of the org was south asian. I guess it's just a coincidence ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. And I can promise you, at least half of them were completely useless. I mean, like so useless they couldn't even figure out how to use generics without 30 minutes of handholding

Also, WMT is not "in tech". Global tech is WITCH tier. The business side is run by the same type of MBA personality running Boeing

They're also forcing like half the company to move to Arkansas at the moment, so a bunch of people are trying to gtfo. I wouldn't advise anyone going there, startups are probably a better option

> and keeps doing crazy layoffs so they can buy more GPUs

They're doing layoffs and giving a wall street friendly reason for it

The media eats the shit up because it's run by a bunch of people who hate the tech industry

I guess it'll work until the market turns around and it forces them to shut up or bleed talent. Which could be around the corner since the R&D tax deduction is coming back, or if interest rates start dropping

My last company (F50, ass engineering culture, pretends to be a tech company) went and fired all of the juniors at a certain level because "AI"

The funny part is, most of those juniors were hired in 2022-2024, and they were better hires because of the harsher market. There were a bunch of "senior engineers" who were borderline useless and joined some time between 2018-2021

I just think it's kind of funny to fire the useful people and keep the more expensive ones around who try to do more "managerial" work and have more family obligations. Smart companies do the opposite

Their PE ratio is 256. What really matters is convincing wall street to keep funneling money into their company stock

So what he's doing makes a lot of sense. Have to keep the stock high and sell off before reality kicks in. All of this money floating around incentivizes this behavior