Comments by "Jason Dashney" (@jasondashney) on "Technology Connections" channel.

  1. Amen. And sorry the commenters here turned this into a left vs right thing, as if this doesn't occur under both sides. It's people like them who argue instead of solving problems.
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  2.  @michealpersicko9531  SLR's are indeed analog only, by definition. That's because the D in DSLR stands for digital. Digital Single Lens Reflex. Also, both terms refer to the mirror mechanism itself. As khairul pointed out, when they got rid of the pentaprism/mirror assembly, they called it "mirrorless" or MILC (Mirrorless Interchangeable Lens Camera).
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  3. Everybody's favourite music time period just happens to be the one during their formative years. Today's rap sucks. Today's rock sucks. Today's.....
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  4. Are we witnessing a slow dissent into madness? “He’s losing his mind. And I am reaping all the benefits”
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  5. Amen from Canada. 20c is "room temp". 24 is quite toasty, especially if you live somewhere humid.
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  6. You already have multiple big tech companies know where you are at all times, your political leanings, your approx income level, your approx medical condition, your sleep patters, your romantic partners, who you communicate with and what you are interested in. Is letting them control your thermostat really a big stretch? We are well past slippery slope time, haha. That ship has sailed.
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  7.  @bluwasabi7635  I agree with you agreeing with me.
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  8.  @BitSmythe This is the internet. You must be new. EVERY subject, if the thread is long enough, becomes politics and name calling.
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  9. He should've introduced a tiny "glitch" in post to drive the doubters to go down a rabbit hole of troll.
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  10. 5:50. Power tools are moving away from brushes. Thankfully. And the power to get it going makes a lot of sense. I've had multiple fans that seem to stop working, but then just spinning the fan manually just a little bit is often enough to get it going and then it'll stay on just fine indefinitely after that.
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  11. 7:20. Calling out the CBC. That gets a pavlovian upvote from me, good sir. (Jk, the upvote was for recognizing that people are stupid). Your complete disappointment in mankind in this video is comforting. The first comment on that CBC article: This problem has been solved - a patent was registered for a lens with a de icing system a number of years ago (US7211771), also a University of Michigan team came up with some solutions in 2011. I imagine that many others have worked on this also. The statement by the Windsor authorities that there are no viable solutions only means that they haven't seriously looked for one. This is a solvable engineering and design problem. I live in the Canadian prairies. Not saying it doesn't happen, but I can't recall ever seeing a fully blinded light, and we get the real-deal winters here. It's not that big of a problem.
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  12. N-H-T-S-A to nit-sa bothers you? Reducing 5 syllables to 2 is more efficient! *cries in German *
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  13. $508 for a whole year's worth of hot water is "yikes"? If you had no hot water and someone said "I'll give you hot water for $1.50 a day you couldn't pull your wallet out fast enough. That's incredible value.
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  14. "Chief" is still fine to say. The Chief Steward's office on the local ferry said so
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  15. Vinegar. Just get a gallon of vinegar for $1.75 at a dollar store and soak your wick in it at a 70/30 vinegar to water ratio. I live in Regina (Deadpool’s birthplace) and our water is BRUTAL for minerals. Mine get deposits constantly. I use vinegar to clean it every week or two and the wicks last 10-20x longer.
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  16. A comfortable 24c? That's interesting because 24c is bananas where I live. In Canada, 20c (68f) is "room temperature" and 24 is considered ridiculously warm. I forced myself to get used to 22-25c because I used to need it crazy cold at night (17c or colder) and that made it a pain if I stayed somewhere without an AC. That said, what you say at 18:55 is pretty lame. Just because a "few degrees" is no big deal to you, that doesn't at all mean it's the same for anyone else. To state that you couldn't be friends with someone because they are sensitive to temperature is super douchey. I have a very high pain threshold so that's exactly like me saying "Don't be a pussy" if you sprain your ankle and refuse to walk on it. You have one of my favourite channels and normally I love all of your content, but that line was condescendingly smug and I hope you wouldn't actually behave like that in practice.
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  17.  @Owen_loves_Butters  2° from 20° is 10%. That's pretty substantial. All of us are around people that always think of room is too cold or too hot when the variances within a couple degrees. And when you say 2° up or down that's actually 4° in total and that's a really big swing.
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  18.  @Owen_loves_Butters  % changes are meaningless depending on the unit? Celcius is linear so I don't understand. Why is it meaningless?
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  19.  @Owen_loves_Butters  I'll meet you in the middle. You are correct that celsius isn't 1:1 with kinetic energy, but % comparisons in Celsius are definitely not meaningless. If I told you that it was 20°C and the temperature dropped by 50%, you would have a good rough estimate of how warm it would feel outside. You could definitely make assumptions about what you would have to wear to go out for the day if you were told percentage differences in the temperature.
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  20. But more importantly, where did you get that tshirt? I'd like to buy the magic of two of them.
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  21. It's interesting that you talk about how wonderfully tolerant negatives are for exposure latitude, considering today's DSLR's are pretty much ISO invariant on the shadow side. You can shoot 4 stops underexposed and it doesn't matter. You can get No Effort November all kinds. Just keep it at ISO 100 and fix it in post if you want. You'd have to be extremely far off to not be ablet to do this.
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  22. I don't think you get what the "soap opera effect is". It's not "just too darm smooth and fluid". The human eye doesn't see in 60hz. We see in blur, so when you film at a shutter speed high enough that you see a series of pretty crisp images that you combine to make motion, it looks "off" because it IS. It's not how the human eye works. 24fps is way, way closer to the human eye and therefore is more "smooth", "fluid", whatever you want to call it. Slowly wave your hand in front of your face while keeping your eyes still. You still have blur. It's not "buttery smooth". It's fucking gross and I don't think I've ever heard anybody else claim it was smoother. You completely ignored shutter angle, which ENTIRELY accounts for any film lack of "smoothness". When shot properly, film will always look smoother because it much more closely resembles how human eyes work. Jesus, now you are wrong about conversion IQ as well. A Full HD frame is TWO megapixels. There are zero film stocks that didn't have 2 MP resolution. A 4k frame is still only an 8MP still image, so it's still not yet at the capability of 35mm film.
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  23. They are properly called f-stops. Stops is just shorthand.
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  24. I hope I'm gonna be wrong but I'm only three minutes in and I've already noticed a few things that have made me raise my eyebrow. You said that people are lucky to have electric stoves versus gas. I'm waiting for the punchline. Also, on my base model terrible old school ghetto electric stove, it boils my cup of tea water in exactly the same amount of time as my Walmart electric kettle. I mean exactly. Also, electric burners, just like with gas stoves, almost always have at least one burner with way less power. Every stove seems to have that one burner meant for simmering and it takes almost forever to boil on that so I highly doubt that the wattage would be the same for all the burners.
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