bananasbandanas's comments

On: Oru Kayak’s reckless and irresponsible advertising

[bananasbandanas]

While it's shoddy statistics, at least in this case the implied effect seems to be real. According to these two sources [1][2] that just came up when I searched for this, prevalence of wearing life-jackets among kayakers appears to be ~78%.

[1] https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/4/3/203 [2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5931488/

[robryk → bananasbandanas]

I have very little doubt the effect's real.

Note though that getting base rates from one place and getting rates of accidents from another is usually a bad idea: they will have various ways of measuring the rates, so will have different biases (based on location, time-of-day, time-of-year, ... where the measurement happens).

On: Study Shows Anti-Piracy Ads Often Made People Pira...

[bananasbandanas]

Maybe they list them to get Google hits when people search for them?

On: 43 km line of sight with USB WiFi stick (2005)

[bananasbandanas]

Given a good control link such as ExpressLRS [0], people can also fly quadcopters 10+ kilometers on as little as 10 mW. See for example the range competition at [1].

Of course, the VTX is usually a different matter..

[0]https://www.expresslrs.org [1]https://www.expresslrs.org/2.0/info/long-range/

On: NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Andr...

[bananasbandanas]

For the Sponsorblock browser addons you can configure them to only show you a button to skip the segments if you like. I'm not sure if that option is available in Vanced or the NewPipe Sponsorblock fork.

On: Thank You, Valve

[bananasbandanas]

According to that post, 0.75% (3/400).

On: Display-switch: Turn a $30 USB switch into a full-...

[bananasbandanas]

Couldn't display-switch send a keypress (something that doesn't do much otherwise, like F15) automatically?

You could probably get that result at the moment using the external command feature and something like xdotool (on Linux)

[pm215 → bananasbandanas]

Yes, or send a fake mouse move. It does this already when running on Windows or OSX; there's an open issue for adding the Linux host support: https://github.com/haimgel/display-switch/issues/27

I reckon it's probably 25 or 30 lines or Rust if you make it use the uinput crate to create a fake input device and send a mouse-move event that way.

On: Free SVG images and icons, released under Creative...

[bananasbandanas]

I can also recommend https://game-icons.net. As the name suggests, it mostly focuses on icons for games, but I find a lot of them are also usefull for other purposes. Most importantly they have a consistent style, so your stuff looks less like you've thrown-together art from 19 different sources.

On: I hate password rules

[bananasbandanas]

More likely they just updated the password during a successful login.

On: The latest campus cancellation is different

[bananasbandanas]

I think you are conflating popularity of an argument with popularity as part of an argument. For the former, it's easy to agree that it does not affect the correctness of the argument. But in the articles case, popularity is part of the argument: That it is especially worrying the speaker is uninvited for an opinion which is held by a majority of people, i.e is popular.

Another example of this would be if we were having an argument about what music to play at some event we are hosting. I might well use the popularity of some songs as an argument.

On: DIY RGB Icosahedron

[bananasbandanas]

> I attempted to assemble a board bey placing LEDs at 90 degrees, but ultimately this was a failure, the pads look reasonably symmetrical, but they’re not exactly.