where the magic happens owo

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• helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  But do you have magic box where the beige happens?

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  • Chefdano3@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s at home Depot.

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• superkret@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You’ll need a PhD to be allowed to push the “on” button though.
  And then go back to the office to write grant applications for a month.
  To buy the next beige box.

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• moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Image

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• interrobang@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I fix software on these things! No one ever quite gets what I do for work, it’s nice to run across in the wild.

  I feel seen lol

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  • clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What do they do?

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    • phdepressed@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Top left is a thermal cycler. Basically it heats and cools samples at a given rate. This is primarily used for generic PCR, and certain enzymatic reactions. Top right is the fancier version of this, it is for qPCR, so it can do the heating and cooling and has a laser/detector for the dye or probe that reacts to generating more dna with each PCR cycle so you can quantify approximately how much of the target DNA you had.

      Bottom right is a luminex. This uses detection of fluorophore signals to measure multiple analyates, usually different proteins.

      Idk what bottom left is.

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    • interrobang@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Some kinda lab work, maybe blood chem or urinalysis. I should clarify that since I’m a software person I don’t even know what they do, really, I just fix it when they stop transmitting lab test results to the database.

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• ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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• allywilson@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This used to be IT in the early 2000s

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  Beige as far as the eye could see (in a data centre)

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  • jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Were we still using 3.5” floppies in the early 2000s?

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  • neidu3@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, I came here to air my hypothesis that lab hardware trends lag behind consumer computers by about 25-30 years.

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    • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Are you saying there used to be woodgrain lab hardware?

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  • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Honestly, I think it was so ugly it was beautiful.

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  • mayo_cider@hexbear.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Nowadays it’s a lot more of dark mode, which is a shame (especially since our software still doesn’t have it)

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• henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Most of ours used to be white!

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