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Here is the newspaper announcement of Noah passing: https://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/family-notices/death-notices/gibbs-h0011871-v1/

The livestream of the funeral, which will happen at 3pm London time on 14th January, is at: www.williamtfraserandson.co.uk/live-stream

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Here is the newspaper announcement of Noah passing: https://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/family-notices/death-notices/gibbs-h0011871-v1/

The livestream of the funeral, which will happen at 3pm London time on 14th January, is at: www.williamtfraserandson.co.uk/live-stream

(This is Krissy) People keep asking me what they can do to support me in Noah's memory.

I am hunkering down in my town with my new and old friends. I am going to be ok; it'll hurt.

What you can do for Noah is to dig deep into where you live. Meet more people. Say hello when it is hard. Take risks on people. Help every chance you get. Never forget his example. There is always more you have to give, and learn and do.

Never stop growing.

That's how you can honor Noah. It's all he wants for you

Truly heartbroken by the untimely passing of Noah Gibbs (@codefolio).

If you knew Noah, please take a moment to share your memories of him via this Google Form shared by Nate Berkopec: https://forms.gle/zxzsXkSdun1ahSqE6

#rubyfriends

@andycroll That is really beautiful Andy, thank you so much. He would be honored.

-Krissy

As his wife I think the thing that would thrill him the most is if there could be a scholarship in his name at Ruby conferences. All the full price people can kick in an extra $10 each and then some people who otherwise wouldn't be able to go can come and learn.

His life's mission was to help people access information and learning.

@drakenblackknight @futurebird @nikink @bri_seven

But what if -- hear me out here -- a shadowy set of corporations could bid on where to take you *instead* of point B, or for an additional variable fee you could attempt to outbid them?

Congratulations on reaching level 10 of the INFOSEC GUY class. Please pick your specialization:

- Guy who's a little too into cryptography
- Guy who's a little too into cryptocurrency
- Guy who's a little too into guns
- Guy who hangs out on a discord full of trans women (with or without Rust)

Congratulations on reaching level 10 of the INFOSEC LADY class. Please pick your specialization:

- Lady who knows a little too much about threat models
- Lady who knows a little too much about drugs
- Lady who knows a little too much about sewing, knitting, soldering and 3D printing guns
- Lady who runs a discord full of trans women (with or without Rust)

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So if anyone knows of a tool, preferably macos or linux, that will let me mass delete every photo in Google Photos in a specified date range, please _please_ let me know.

#google_apps #google_photos

@da_667 This is Microsoft we're talking about. XBox spent *how* many billions as a loss leader over *how* many years? They're perfectly prepared to do this as a long-haul project that may or may not ever work.

@nasser Yeah. It used to be a sensible question for a very specific subset of programmers, once upon a time.

@th @whitequark Yeah. It's fun for all sorts of wacky reasons. The 1-bit dithering is a cute trick, but I like the insurance adjuster angle better. The same designer also built the game Papers, Please.

(The 1-bit dithering *is* neat. But it's sometimes quite hard to see what's going on. It's good that it's a slow-paced patient game.)

@whitequark It's weird how much I enjoy "Return of the Obra Dinn". You are basically an insurance adjuster working for the East India Company. So you're kind of investigating the ship's doom, but mostly to assign blame, figure back pay, look for individual liability, etc.

The point of A Christmas Carol isn't the salvation of Scrooge's soul. That's secondary. Frankly, we don't know what happens to Scrooge's soul. It might be that the chains you forge in life remain with you always.

The point is that Tiny Tim doesn't die.

That, in microcosm, is the difference between the religion practiced by many people and truly living a good life. You'll notice that Dickens doesn't send Jesus to Scrooge to tell him he's being a bad man. There's not much about Christianity in A Christmas Carol, really. The Spirits aren't angels. And they don't show Scrooge that his place should be giving his money to the church and praying for salvation.

A Christmas Carol is a worldly tale of what might happen to Scrooge in this life, not the next. His salvation, if it can be called that, is found not in faith but in action. We're never treated to a homily on the true meaning of Christmas being a baby in a manger. We see Christmases Past, Present, and Future as people observe them. The future for Scrooge may be bleak, but it is still Christmas. In fact, one could make the point that only by showing Scrooge the real-world consequences of his actions can his actions be changed. If he needed to hear about the Hell that awaits the rich man, Marley told him that at the outset.

But why save Scrooge? A wretched old miser if ever there was one. Sure, the story is directed at people who are in similar need of salvation, but the end of the story doesn't make it clear that Scrooge achieves salvation. He just doesn't die hated and alone.

No, the Spirits change Scrooge not for himself but to save Tiny Tim, and by extension the Cratchits as a family. And then, by further extension, all the other poor people who will be saved by Scrooge's change of heart. But Tiny Tim is the start. To save even one life is blessed.

So when people ask why the Spirits put so much effort into changing Scrooge, who doesn't deserve it, remember how the story ends. Tiny Tim doesn't die. Dickens wants you to know that in no uncertain terms. He stresses it. Tiny Tim, who did NOT die.

The lesson you should take from A Christmas Carol is to keep your Tiny Tim alive however possible and worry about theology later.

We have two openings for interns in my group at Pixar, RenderMan, for June to August, 2025. Deadline to apply is February 3.

Prior interns include folks who now have full time careers with Pixar, Walt Disney, Intel, NVIDIA, Sony, Chaos Czech, and Meta; as well as others who are now professors at Stanford, Clemson, and Utah. The experience is invaluable and the work on a feature film renderer is always interesting!

For more information:
https://pixar.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Pixar_External_Internships/details/Software-Engineering-Intern--RenderMan---Summer-2025_R-03848

Happy to answer questions here.

As the IT person for my mother I feel this (I made her change over to Firefox with adblocks, she would have never done it herself)

NHS England have launched a survey for adults who are using an NHS England gender clinic or have in the past 5 years. Given recent experiences with consultations, it could be tempting not to engage. But we do we encourage trans adults in England to take part (reasons in the thread below).

You'll find the survey https://nhs.welcomesyourfeedback.net/s/93arah

#Trans #Transgender #Nonbinary #TransHealth #TransRights

@evan @futurebird @DoubleArobase

I was going to say, until 30 they each had two prime factors.

@solnic Congratulations. I understand about needing more time to be a partner and father. It's a lot 🙂

@mds2 No clue. I didn't use shaders when I was messing with it.