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Re: How many flies are in my apartment?

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Post by AlgorithmicTime »

fmax30 wrote: post #8
codetrotter wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Open windows for air, but have a finely masked net covering the opening so insects don’t get in.

This is the norm in the south asian country I come from. But ever since I moved to the EU, there have been no nets, then again there are noticeably fewer flies here too.

Also the norm in the US. All my windows have screens built in.

Re: How many flies are in my apartment?

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Post by masklinn »

fmax30 wrote: post #8
codetrotter wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Open windows for air, but have a finely masked net covering the opening so insects don’t get in.

This is the norm in the south asian country I come from. But ever since I moved to the EU, there have been no nets, then again there are noticeably fewer flies here too.

Also less mosquitoes, and the drier air makes airflow somewhat less of a living requirement: iirc screen doors are also ubiquitous in the (humid and hot) US south, much less so in the north.

window and door screens do absolutely exist in europe, but they’re definitely uncommon.

Re: How many flies are in my apartment?

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Post by kzrdude »

I tried showing the flies using matplotlib.animation.FuncAnimation in a notebook, animating even 1000 frames is slow and it warns the animation becomes too large. Maybe there's a better way to do it? Preferably in a notebook interface.

Re: How many flies are in my apartment?

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Post by TeMPOraL »

fmax30 wrote: post #8
codetrotter wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Open windows for air, but have a finely masked net covering the opening so insects don’t get in.

This is the norm in the south asian country I come from. But ever since I moved to the EU, there have been no nets, then again there are noticeably fewer flies here too.

It's becoming increasingly common where I live (Poland). We've installed nets in our last apartment, and the current one came with them already in place.

There may not be that many flies in the EU as there are in South Asia, but there's enough of them to be annoying. Then there are mosquitoes, moths, wasps, bees - and the very bugs I've been installing these nets against - hornets. Before the net, we'd get 3-5 hornet visits per season. Running around the house late at night with an improvised flamethrower got tiring very quickly.

Re: How many flies are in my apartment?

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Post by nly »

mschuster91 wrote: post #10
aetherspawn wrote: post #2

This would be an interesting thing to prove with OpenCV

Flies are small... you'd need a lot of light, multiple angles and good cameras/lenses to decently illuminate the flies, which has the problem that all the light will only attract more flies.

Is this really true? I mean we've had tech like Hawk-Eye[0] for a couple of decades now.

Surely we cameras good enough for fly tracking technology in 2021?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawk-Eye

Re: How many flies are in my apartment?

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Post by Nux »

fmax30 wrote: post #8
codetrotter wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Open windows for air, but have a finely masked net covering the opening so insects don’t get in.

This is the norm in the south asian country I come from. But ever since I moved to the EU, there have been no nets, then again there are noticeably fewer flies here too.

Grew up near a forested area by the Danube river.. everyone and their dog had nets on their windows else the mosquitoes would turn your life into a nightmare.

Re: How many flies are in my apartment?

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Post by only_as_i_fall »

fmax30 wrote: post #8
codetrotter wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Open windows for air, but have a finely masked net covering the opening so insects don’t get in.

This is the norm in the south asian country I come from. But ever since I moved to the EU, there have been no nets, then again there are noticeably fewer flies here too.

Dont the windows have screens? In the US pretty much every window has a permanent screen outside the panel for this purpose...just assumed it was the same in europe

Re: How many flies are in my apartment?

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Post by nicoburns »

only_as_i_fall wrote: post #19
fmax30 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is the norm in the south asian country I come from. But ever since I moved to the EU, there have been no nets, then again there are noticeably fewer flies here too.

Dont the windows have screens? In the US pretty much every window has a permanent screen outside the panel for this purpose...just assumed it was the same in europe

I've pretty much never seen a screen in the UK. I think they might be more common in hotter countries further south.
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