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No user record in our sample, but timelined has activity below (stories or comments). Likely we have partial data — the full bulk-load will fill profiles in.
No user record in our sample, but timelined has activity below (stories or comments). Likely we have partial data — the full bulk-load will fill profiles in.
Yep, this is the "easy" way to chloride silver wires in the lab. I've chlorided silver wires by immersing part of the wire in bleach (regular household Clorox) and taping it in place so it sits for ~10-20 minutes.…
This is a pretty good introduction. I highly recommend Feynman's book "QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter" as an excellent in-depth work that does not sacrifice accuracy for the sake of making difficult ideas…
Computers were at the core of Jurassic Park. Remember, the novel was published in 1990. Among other important uses: * the widespread use of computers for nearly complete automation of the park--maintaining feeds (to a…
Between Alamaden (San Jose) and Yorktown Heights (NY) in the US, IBM is one of the last few industrial basic sciences/engineering labs in the US, resembling Bell Labs and Xerox PARC from a few decades ago.
IBM/Intel/Samsung buy tools from various companies. By "tools", I really mean huge pieces of instrumentation that cost many (tens to hundreds) millions of dollars from other companies that are used for the various…
IBM was one of the first big companies to develop/commercialize SOI technologies.
Certain parts of the cleanroom will look yellow--these are the spaces where they do lithography with resists that are openly accessible to the air. UV-sensitive resists will chemically crosslink in UV light, so they put…
Yes, I was referring to Microsoft Office in the comment. I've used LibreOffice for years while running Linux before. I noticed perfomance issues compared to Microsoft Office on Windows that were especially bad for…
This is one step closer towards an effective full Office Suite on Linux, which I would be very happy about.
It is increasingly common for large labs in the life sciences (25+ members) to hire multiple support staff (with PhDs) to help offset this load. This is in addition to positions like Senior Research Scientists (senior…