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The other day I was out with my flatmate and we started talking with a guy. Stayed together all night long. He offered to keep in contact through Instagram, I don't have it so I asked his phone number but he refused, anyways my flatmate has it so it worked out.
Now I wanted to talk with him regarding certain things we discussed, so I asked my flatmate to ask him the phone number so that I could do that.

The guy replied that he's sorry and means nothing bad, but he doesn't like sharing personal information with strangers.

Now, what I don't understand is why is it alright to share Instagram, where you have pictures of you and not your phone number?

#Instagram #Phone #Privacy

Ho appena visto una esposizione di alcuni lavori di Carlo Zuliana. Molto interessante, un bellissimo scorcio sulla vita comune delle persone; molto concentrato sui normali, i reietti e gli inesistenti.
Bellissime alcune scene di equilibrismo in una fabbrica.

Qualcuno ha una pentola per cottura lenta?
Come vi trovate, pensate sia effettivamente una cosa utile?
Ne ho vista una in un negozio dell'usato a 17€ e mi sta venendo voglia di comprarla.

#cucina

Today, a wonderful mutation methodology was presented to me in a conference, this was used to generate new proteins to act as enzymes for specific reactions.
They used microfluidics, which already by itself places them in the cool category.
Basically they made up this system in which they have bacterias producing an enzyme, through microfluidics they push a single cell inside a bubble with the reaction substrate and some lysing agent.
The enzyme comes out and the reaction proceeds producing a fluorescent compound, the fluorescence is measured to assess the catalytic performance and based on that, droplets are separated thanks to microfluidics magic.
The good ones go through another stage in which the dna is sequenced to determine what the protein is and random mutations are induced and inserted in other bacterias that are then sent a the beginning of the process.

The whole thing is automatic and they process 1000 proteins per second.
That's crazy, sounded like magic to me.
Cool stuff, I have to insert some microfluidics somewhere in my projects. Microfluidics is better than AI. I have to learn microfluidics now.

#protein #microfluidics

Every once in a while I get into conversations here on Mastodon that don't end up well.
I try to improve myself, could you please take a look at this one and tell me where I've been so rude and aggressive and how I could have handled it better? I realise my final answer could be interpreted aggressive, but I do not see the problem in everything else I have written.
I went through it a few times and if anything it appears to me that he was a bit quick to conclude and disrespectful, but just to a very small extent which does not cause problems and which is to be expected when you start talking with someone you don't know.

Please, refrain from interacting with the guy unless you knew him before: he blocked me and directing people towards talking to him would be a bad practice, I just want some insight on my behaviour.

https://mastodon.cloud/@KristianHarstad/109808330630592428