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What about a hybrid approach, as I think folks do right now more or less -- draw it out by eye, and then validate the design with simulation-software (e.g. https://www.comsol.com/microfluidics-module ) and iterate as needed
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Neat. I see a lot of threaded components, is the expectation that at contact point we should have a threaded opening? How the heck does someone manage to do that at these micro-scales? Also, wowza, it pains me to see non-metric units used t
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I wish the paper included more details on what sort of connectors they use to connect the tubes carrying fluids to the microfluidics chips. Fig.6A shows 9 abstract-looking cylinders, but it's not really clear what's going on there
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I'm surprised that he chose to continue using your car then, because I would have thought being found out once would permanently turn him off and have him find another place. I guess you might have communicated to him that it was okay
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5y ago
I visited SanFran a couple of years ago, and this reminded me of a homeless guy, in his late 60s I imagine, that I saw at a fast food chain. So I was I think at in-and-out, and a homeless guy was going through the garbage bin to find food.
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Something grotesque was put forth by a technology made by an entity that is comically monied. A mistake was similarly made by another monied entity only months ago, so it should have dedicated considerable effort to prevent such things. Thi
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We begin to see why you are #1 in the leaderboard; you have help. But concerning controversy surrounding ivermectin I found this interesting text: An important controversial point to consider in any rationale is the 5 µM required concentrat
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5y ago
Your link appears to not work, but for others' convenience I think this is what you meant to link: https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD... Separately, I'm having trouble pars
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5y ago
So it is... the picture "frame", it's pure CSS styling instead of some shopped image right? Well then credit to where it's deserved... bravo to that blackhat for at least having some tasteful sense of aesthetic and compo
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5y ago
Wait what, Deepfake is better? To me, not at all, deepfake seems blurry. It looks like, well, a deepfake, there is something distinct about deepfakes which just stands out, I think it's the soft blur around individual parts. It's
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DoD says DJI products pose “potential threats”
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> You’ll notice in the app that you can specify how many notifications you get per day, further suggesting that it’s not tied to stress indicators in vital signs. You make a very compelling point that an option of choosing how many times
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5y ago
*s/caught/catch/; s/remarkably/remarkable/; Child post posed question about what measurement is being used to decide whether or not to give breathe notification, I googled around and saw that it's not docu
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If anyone here has an Apple watch, they likely experienced the "intrusiveness" of the breathing app. At first, it did indeed caught me off guard... why was Apple, a company whose products I equate to be the pinnacle of principled
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In the same way a lot of products have become cheaper because of some process optimization (packaged more compactly to reduce transportation costs), I'm excited to see modular homes/home 3d-printing etc. play out and become cheape
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You’re luckier than me, I get headaches from natural light. If I’m outside on a sunny day without sunglasses I am pretty much done for the day. I have no clue why I am this way or if this is a common issue for folks out there. I should look
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> I'm exposed to the risk that buddies of the WU employees will rob my house later In comparison to getting your wallet compromised by viruses searching for it (and they will probably become more aggressive and adept as BTC usage in
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You give convincing arguments in favor of BTC for folks living abroad in less-than-stable states. But these very arguments for which it is acclaimed have clear flip-sides that should be worrisome for those very same folks you claim it'
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I use uBlock Origin and have an iphone. Unfortunately getting an adblocker is not as trivial, so inertia took over and I see ads on youtube app and I see ads when generally browsing the web on the iphone. I notice that over the course of th
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I use a wooden chair much like this one: https://i.imgur.com/2LZ2d3M.png What I came to realize after a while of thinking about this is that this is all bikeshedding (at least, it was for my situation). If you have issues o
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I think tptacek's / geofft's point is that using Tulsi as a representation of the far-left is a questionable choice. And I think I agree with him: While the points you raise about NRA ratings are true, the perception on the g
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> Why does this matter? It seems to be obvious to Lee why this is problematic, but it's not at all obvious to me. There's "freenode" -- the network, the volunteers, and there's 'Freenode Limited' the co
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I've heard this before, but I've gotta add: about a decade ago, when I was a newbie in the FOSS world, I remember a pm interaction with lilo. He was kind, unassuming, and helped me with some basic nickserv commands. I only came to
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I think as we come to cross a certain threshold of how widespread these autonomous vehicles are it just makes sense to shape infrastructure around the technology. For starters make it code for construction sites to place beacons that relay
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It wasn't really my take or opinion, I rather recalled it being cited as the reason by Foxconn itself in multiple instances. Also, I'm from Wisconsin, and an old EECS professor explained this to be the reason from his first-hand k
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In a nutshell, it mistook the nature of labor folks are used to here and its costs. Indeed wildly different from China and elsewhere.
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Formlabs printers can do a lot of this stuff but at a fraction of the cost (base model costs around 2k, also has an expansive list of materials with interesting properties: https://formlabs.com/material-selector/ ). Al
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Tangentially related, for the first time ever I saw Gmail losing its anti-spam game. We were doing some home-modeling and we went to Home Depot sometime early this month. And... some entity somehow discovered this. And then all of a sudden
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Digital colorisation versus actual color photos from between 1909 and 1915
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That's interesting, because I recall a hoard of articles at that time reporting that the Israeli-based Cellebrite was the one to unlock San Bernadino shooter's iPhone for the FBI: https://www.reuters.com/article&#x
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