Bug-a-Salt (2013) • Hacker News Board

Re: Bug-a-Salt (2013)

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Post by nwallin » Wed, Mar 04, 2020, 10:21 PM UTC

et2o wrote: post #7

What’s the volume of salt? Not sure if I’d rather have a fly buzzing around or salt all over my house

It's tiny. I have a Roomba and never notice any salt in its bin.

Re: Bug-a-Salt (2013)

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Post by iak8god » Wed, Mar 04, 2020, 11:43 PM UTC

phalangion wrote: post #29

draw_down wrote: post #14

Would be interesting to try with diatomaceous earth.

Seems to me that DE is probably too powdery for this.

Also dangerous to inhale, so maybe not the best idea to be launching it into the air in one's living space.

Re: Bug-a-Salt (2013)

#83

Post by iak8god » Wed, Mar 04, 2020, 11:46 PM UTC

FroshKiller wrote: post #22

dusted wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does it really kill them though? I'm a fan of my electric swatter (because I can catch them in-flight with it) but I have to keep it buzzing for a bit to make sure they're really dead, and then it smells slightly burnt.

It kills. Roaches might take two or three shots depending on their size and your aim, but it kills.

Amazon reviewers claim the 'Bug-A-Salt 2.0 Lawn & Garden Model' works well on palmetto bugs, which I think it just what they call giant roaches in Florida?

Re: Bug-a-Salt (2013)

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Post by toxican » Thu, Mar 05, 2020, 2:24 AM UTC

Phrenzy wrote: post #73

cortesoft wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does it leave a bunch of salt on your floor? Stuff like grainy sand on my hardwood floors is one of my pet peeves... does this not create that feeling?

I prefer to use the idea that I am seasoning my home.

Also it's good luck to throw a pinch of salt over your shoulder, so any backwards shots you take is +3 to luck

Re: Bug-a-Salt (2013)

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Mar 05, 2020, 2:34 AM UTC

iak8god wrote: post #83

FroshKiller wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It kills. Roaches might take two or three shots depending on their size and your aim, but it kills.

Amazon reviewers claim the 'Bug-A-Salt 2.0 Lawn & Garden Model' works well on palmetto bugs, which I think it just what they call giant roaches in Florida?

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Re: Bug-a-Salt (2013)

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Post by yellowapple » Thu, Mar 05, 2020, 3:50 AM UTC

foreigner wrote: post #10

Hate to be a spoilsport but I wonder what their safety record is like. The shots where the camera was pointed up the barrel made me cringe. "Treat like a loaded weapon at all times" indeed! Of all things to get in your eye high-velocity salt seems like it would be pretty bad.

What's wrong with pointing a camera up the barrel? As long as nobody's behind it, the worst case scenario is you break your camera (and given the video quality, I'd say that'd be a good motivator to upgrade, haha).

Re: Bug-a-Salt (2013)

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Post by yellowapple » Thu, Mar 05, 2020, 3:57 AM UTC

Cerium wrote: post #46

zarmin wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

`brew upgrade morality`

When I was your age, we had to compile morality ourselves.

Back in my day we bought our morality in books that we'd have to hand-transcribe into our moral compasses. One typo, and whoops, now you're a sociopath.

Re: Bug-a-Salt (2013)

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Post by yellowapple » Thu, Mar 05, 2020, 4:01 AM UTC

I have two of these in my closet, still in the box (meant to keep one and give the other to my Dad for a Christmas gag gift, but got him something else instead). I live in a desert and haven't needed to open one, though it's dawning on me now that we get scorpions here...

Re: Bug-a-Salt (2013)

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Post by masonic » Thu, Mar 05, 2020, 9:20 AM UTC

foreigner wrote: post #10

Hate to be a spoilsport but I wonder what their safety record is like. The shots where the camera was pointed up the barrel made me cringe. "Treat like a loaded weapon at all times" indeed! Of all things to get in your eye high-velocity salt seems like it would be pretty bad.

"Yer gonna put somebody's composite eyes out with that!"

Re: Bug-a-Salt (2013)

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Post by ZoomZoomZoom » Thu, Mar 05, 2020, 11:03 AM UTC

TruthSHIFT wrote: post #58

ZoomZoomZoom wrote: post #30

With age I came to conclusion that anything making killing of any kind even remotely fun is utterly wrong. It might be necessary with dangerous insects, but it should not be fun or recreational.

Unlike a vast majority of other animals, studies seem to indicate that insects are not capable of feeling pain and suffering. Killing insects is effectively just killing robots.

Do you think that augmenting human brain to not feel pain would permit killing?