@theganfam @wirelyss If anything, spam increased soon after third-party clients were killed
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https://t.co/UQk7WEe3k3 Python/C++/Java
San Jose Katılım Mayıs 2014
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The best thing x could do rn is allow third party clients again.
It allows other intelligent cracked teams to make the X experience better and more curated, then x can learn from it and make the base app better over time (or acquire the best one lol)
Elon Musk@elonmusk
@diana_dukic What needs to be better?
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no one wants to hear this, but the best way to address the dual problems of high ticket prices and overcrowding at ski resorts would just be to make it easier to open up new ski resorts across America
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@DrEricDing @SA_Gunnison This is the exact reason we should be pushing fusion far harder than currently we need it in a few years not decades; solve the helium shortage and generate clean energy.
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FUN FACT—helium cools the superconducting magnets in more than 14,000 MRI machines used in hospitals worldwide. We lost the largest helium extraction plant in the world in Qatar. US reserves running low. Helium cannot be produced de novo. Any helium escape is permanent.
Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡@shanaka86
Helium is the only element that escapes Earth’s atmosphere permanently. Once released, it rises through the troposphere, passes the stratosphere, and leaves the planet. It cannot be manufactured. It cannot be synthesised at industrial scale. It accumulates over billions of years in the same geological reservoirs as natural gas. And one third of the world’s supply just went offline because Iran hit the facility that extracts it. Qatar produced roughly 63 million cubic metres of helium in 2025, accounting for 30 to 36 percent of global supply from a total of approximately 190 million cubic metres. QatarEnergy’s three large helium purification plants at Ras Laffan form the world’s biggest helium production base. When LNG production stopped after Iranian drone strikes on March 2 and the subsequent missile damage on March 19, helium extraction stopped automatically because helium is recovered during natural gas liquefaction. You cannot produce helium without producing LNG. The byproduct dies with the primary product. Spot helium prices have roughly doubled since the crisis began. Industry consultants warn that prolonged disruption could push contract prices toward $2,000 per thousand cubic feet. A major industrial gas supplier has already begun assessing customers a helium surcharge. Phil Kornbluth, the most cited helium market consultant, stated the assessment directly: the world cannot compensate for the loss of a third of its helium supply. South Korea imports 64.7 percent of its helium from Qatar. SK Hynix and Samsung operate high-volume fabs producing the DRAM and high-bandwidth memory that power every AI accelerator, every data centre GPU, and every cloud computing cluster on Earth. Helium cools silicon wafers during fabrication. It serves as a carrier gas in deposition and etching tools. It enables leak detection in vacuum systems. Modern extreme ultraviolet lithography requires helium-cooled environments for precise temperature control. Without helium, the fabrication process degrades or stops. SK Hynix and Samsung hold two to three months of helium inventory. Two to three months is not a buffer. It is a countdown. If Ras Laffan remains offline beyond that window, South Korean memory production faces rationing. TSMC in Taiwan is somewhat more diversified but still uses Qatar-linked supply chains. The entire AI hardware supply chain, from HBM3E memory stacks to advanced logic chips, sits inside helium-dependent ecosystems. Beyond semiconductors, helium cools the superconducting magnets in more than 14,000 MRI machines operating worldwide. It pressurises rocket fuel tanks and purges propulsion systems in aerospace. CERN’s Large Hadron Collider depends on helium cryogenic systems. There is no substitute for helium in any of these applications at industrial scale. The United States and Qatar together account for more than 70 percent of global production. The US federal helium reserve and private suppliers offer partial relief, but global prices and spot availability are still governed by Qatar’s market share. Japan’s Iwatani has drawn on US reserves. Canada and the Rockies are seeing renewed investor interest. None of this replaces 63 million cubic metres in weeks. The war hit uranium first. Then oil. Then nitrogen. Then water. Then plastic. Then medicine. Then sulfur. Now helium. Eight layers. Each one deeper. Each one closer to the infrastructure that sustains modern civilisation. The chip that processes your data, the magnet that scans your body, and the rocket that launches your satellite all depend on an atom that leaves the planet when you lose it. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…
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@DrEricDing Helium-free MRI machines already exist. These machines have a small market share because helium is a dirt cheap waste product of the US oil and gas industry
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Fun Fact: The US produces almost half of the global helium. The Qatar thing is a big problem, but pretty much the only country that isn't affected by it is the United States. Also: we can make helium. It's produced by radioactive decay & is concentrated in natural gas reservoirs
Eric Feigl-Ding@DrEricDing
FUN FACT—helium cools the superconducting magnets in more than 14,000 MRI machines used in hospitals worldwide. We lost the largest helium extraction plant in the world in Qatar. US reserves running low. Helium cannot be produced de novo. Any helium escape is permanent.
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The best run part of the San Francisco bureaucracy is the one run by a for-profit private company.
Henri Pierre-Jacques@hpierrejacques
Wow found out today that SFO has its own private security after one of my founders in SF said "What security issues? It took me 20 minutes today." SF is truly different lol
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@amolitor99 @shlevy Samples are taken at an instant in time, not at the middle/end of an interval. If other studies did it differently, they did it wrong
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In 1994 a nutrition researcher discovered the essential ingredients of integral calculus. By the available info this was independent of Newton etc.
This routinely gets mocked and held up as an example of mathematical incompetence in the life sciences!
care.diabetesjournals.org/content/17/2/1…
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People get so mad when you try and explain to them that plastic pollution isn't a real problem in America.
Robert Anderson@ProfRobAnderson
Any news article about pollution from plastic bags or other plastic products that does not point out that the US produces essentially zero per capita plastic pollution is ridiculously misleading. You can't even see the US here because it's basically on the x-axis. In a lot of countries, people literally just throw all their trash in the river. That's the plastic problem.
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I am skeptical that "happiness" stats mean anything, it feels like Scandinavian countries always top these ranking because there's a strong cultural taboo against whining there.
As anglosphere culture becomes less Anglo-Saxon, public whining is increasingly more normalized.
Stefan Schubert@StefanFSchubert
The English-speaking world is falling in rankings of life satisfaction (The Economist)
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@amolitor99 @shlevy LMAO python/scikit didn't invent the trapezoidal rule. The function has a lineage. cumulative_trapezoid() -> cumtrapz() -> trapz() (definite integral) -> MATLAB trapz(). This predates her 1994 paper and if she works with data she would know MATLAB in the 90s. It's also just math
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@Corey_Yanofsky @oxcrowx This only reveals that her colleagues were as clueless as her.
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Once a doctor re-invented integration by trapezoidal rule because she did not learn it in school.
She received 75 citations for her novel work.
She even named it after herself. lol.
Valentin Ignatev@valigo
I desperately need to learn more math. Recently I invented "lerp" from first principles. Would have saved some time if I knew its industry-standard name :/
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@MostlyMonkey @KlnRkj There are also a ton of civilians living in cities 1 mile from the coast. So far I've seen no progress on that front.
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Why is the us navy responsible for taking care of thousands of foreign flagged vessels in an area we have no ports in?
Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping) 🚢⚓🐪🚒🏴☠️@mercoglianos
🚨Crews at risk in the Gulf🚨 Just heard from a crewmember on one of the 3,200 ships stuck in the Persian Gulf. A ship called the local port authority requested permission to dock as they had run out of water. They were denied permission! Multiple ships are in the same condition, with stores, food and fuel running low. Ports are overwhelmed and security is such that they are refusing permission for ships to dock. Crews cannot get off and reliefs cannot fly in. What is being done to address this matter @POTUS @SecWar @SecDuffy @DOTMARAD @IMOSecGen @IMOHQ.
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@amolitor99 @shlevy guy who's as clueless as the woman who thought she invented the trapezoidal rule
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@MostlyMonkey @KlnRkj People on twitter will really be like "you believe in freedom of navigation? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, castrating the iranians" and then not castrate the iranians
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@KlnRkj 1) gas is up like 60 cents a gallon
2) the best thing we can do for the price of gas is to castrate the iranians. The saudis can nursemaid the ships in the gulf
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@amolitor99 @shlevy Dude this function is literally the trapezoidal rule and so is her formula. They get identical results. There's nothing special about unevenly spaced values, it works just fine.
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@liz_love_lace You can't assume that every technology other than batteries will be stagnant. If AI companies succeed in getting past idiocy like ALARA, nuclear will also become cheaper over time.
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@NavinFS in the 10-15 years it takes you to build a nuclear power plant, batteries will become cheaper
(sorry for the graph, i would prefer one with better units)
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now that we have a realistic way to get unlimited cheap ultra-clean energy, it does seem a bit silly to build nuclear reactors
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