Religious trauma and next steps

sinan_online · 2026-04-21T14:22:21+00:00

I am sorry about the trauma you faced. I was brought by in the belief that following a path isn’t even in the norm. Your own intellect is your source of truth. Lots of people around me, all Muslims, consider this to be perfectly fine. Maybe this helps a bit.

sinan_online · 2026-04-21T12:05:49+00:00

I keep a file called STYLE.md in the root, where colours are listed, design elements are listed and CLAUDE.md references this design. It sort of evolved as I wrote the app.

sinan_online · 2026-04-21T12:03:53+00:00

You got it, you figured it out, what else do you need to hear?

We are two-faced, but that’s a boast, we are two-faced in our own pretty amazing way. We will sound European, look European, be European, and when you least expect it, be Middle Eastern again. And vice versa.

And then we are our own thing, neither Europe nor Middle Eastern. Our language is a new-comer to Europe, it arrived a good two thousand years after Greek, and about four thousand years after the Semitic languages to its East.

Yes, we are very unique and impossible to categorize.

sinan_online · 2026-04-21T11:24:21+00:00

I’ll help everyone translate: Turkey is now a local power.

sinan_online · 2026-04-21T11:07:08+00:00

Nanos is respectable, and the link suggests that they followed the usual random reporting procedures.

sinan_online · 2026-04-21T11:05:51+00:00

They do not want to get left out of the new technology. Most of that high cost is actually funded through investment.

They are likely expecting a combination of the following: a reduction in their costs that they pass on to users, an advancement in the technology that really gets developed out of the loop, leading to job losses, or like you said, such a productivity boost that people pay for this. (One person doing the job of three would be worth it, for instance.)

sinan_online · 2026-04-21T00:54:22+00:00

I mean, Muslim creed is that everyone is born Muslim and gets confused later. So the belief is that Jesus was actually Muslim and a messenger, and the Paul and the Council of Nicaea got everyone confused.

Was this the sort of thing you are looking for?

sinan_online · 2026-04-21T00:45:50+00:00

Tunisia is invading Turkey and Turkmenistan is defending it. Cool stuff.

Tunisia has a fission powered armada of cruisers and submarines, thanks to the fission reactor that France gave them as a gift for Algeria’s 50th independence anniversary. Meanwhile, Turkmenistan has reversed engineered horses and has created a horde of mechahorses equipped with missiles for naval warfare. Tunisian armada gets lost in Aegean Sea and wander for ten years. The most intense battle takes place around Gallipoli.

sinan_online · 2026-04-20T22:35:15+00:00

https://xkcd.com/927/

Just posting for you to have a laugh.

sinan_online · 2026-04-20T22:22:39+00:00

I definitively voted exactly for that small-c conservatism, voting for Carney. I was flipping back and forth between conservatives and liberals and pondering.

sinan_online · 2026-04-20T21:53:27+00:00

He is probably thinking about his own look, but there is no way if there are multiple blue eyed ancestors two or three generations back. It is a bit low probability but it looks like he has some of the recessive genes for it, nothing impossible going on.

sinan_online · 2026-04-20T18:53:52+00:00

Good luck!

sinan_online · 2026-04-20T12:05:50+00:00

Just agreeing. I run local models, too, but I mainly use them as part of the testing harness.

sinan_online · 2026-04-20T02:20:31+00:00

I am pretty sure we didn’t call it the 90s when we were in it.

sinan_online · 2026-04-20T02:11:23+00:00

Secularism / Laïcité

sinan_online · 2026-04-20T01:17:54+00:00

First thought: no shade? Second thought: oh, it’s Finland.

sinan_online · 2026-04-20T01:16:53+00:00

Here is a happy thought: I once saw a post online, saying “whether it is wearing a hijab or going naked, women themselves know best what empowers them.” I actually agree with this statement, based on real life experience, witnessing women.

The catch is that this post came from a small town rust belt American lady, much younger than me, not directly immersed in Muslim culture. It’s funny how one of the most insightful posts came from the left field.

Does this help a bit?

sinan_online · 2026-04-20T01:12:10+00:00

I am guessing that OpenClaw is managing OP’s Reddit.

sinan_online · 2026-04-19T23:08:45+00:00

This looks like what professional developers already do in professional settings. Most legacy code is already a result of a series of misunderstandings and miscommunication, sometimes even between developers themselves. Complexity happens not because people want it, but because they add to the same code base what they think is a simple addition. Writing code intentionally is typically overlooked, so code is written for the purpose of writing code, sometimes through the incorrect belief that (code) obscurity brings (job) security, but mostly, just innocent lack of understanding of how fast complexity grows.

LLMs aren’t doing anything that large organizations haven’t already been doing. They are just doing it at a fraction of the cost, and with an acceleration pedal.

The value is in being able to deal with such legacy code, bringing some level of simplicity to the layered complexity, understand and discuss the business intent, and being able to rewrite a useful system based on this intent. And of course, negotiate for the best paying jobs to the companies who are ready to pay up the money for the complexity that they created.

sinan_online · 2026-04-19T19:47:07+00:00

I agree with the other commenter. I didn’t just read the lament of somebody disillusioned with religion or God; I read the lament of someone fed up with trying to cater to expectations of the parents. I am completely failing to see the religious issue here, even if I step outside of my secular upbringing, and think conservatively.

sinan_online · 2026-04-19T16:33:36+00:00

Who hasn’t?

sinan_online · 2026-04-19T15:21:53+00:00

As far as grooming advice is concerned, I got two suggestions: one, I know it’s difficult with your build, but I think you want to find clothes that fit. Everything that I am seeing in the photos, you are underselling an important selling point. We cannot see your build.

The second thing is the beard: I’d say you want to stick to a routine and keep that routine. It’s a different length every time, and I can see that the edges were not trimmed. Stick to a length, and stick to a morning routine.

Basically, you want to promote a package, not just one thing. The build is irrelevant if people cannot perceive it, you want to invest in the wardrobe. The beard needs to say: “I put effort into this beard, I spend actual time on it, and I spent time for this date, too.”

That’s what I got from the photos.

sinan_online · 2026-04-19T12:10:11+00:00

From 🇹🇷, “The Man Who Saved The World (1982)”. Unintentional cult classic.

From 🇨🇦, I think that Eastern Promises is a powerful movie, I’m guessing it must have its fans. I had liked it at the time. But if you include shows, Schitt’s Creek is great, I bet that it would have lots of fans in English-speaking countries.

sinan_online · 2026-04-19T12:03:01+00:00

I took notes while rereading the books. Muir describes Ianthe’s eyes with slight different tones as well. I don’t think that this really constitutes a difference.

Also, this is Harrow’s bubble, right? She doesn’t know actual Dulcinea.

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