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by timelined 11y ago
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. Silver wire
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by timelined 11y ago
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 underst
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by timelined 11y ago
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 certain extent), autom
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by timelined 11y ago
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.
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by timelined 11y 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 proce
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by timelined 11y ago
IBM was one of the first big companies to develop/commercialize SOI technologies.
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by timelined 11y ago
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 on filters on the fl
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by timelined 11y ago
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 spreadsheets. I consi
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by timelined 11y ago
This is one step closer towards an effective full Office Suite on Linux, which I would be very happy about.
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by timelined 11y ago
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 postdocs) who often se