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I wonder if killing their dumber commanders might inadvertently be helping them…
what a strange argument to make
Arguments based on natural selection are sometimes unintuitive!
DJI Mini 4 Pro
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#392Earlier quoted context omitted.
No because DJI, XPENG, BYD, and a ton of other Chinese companies have this 'move fast and break things' mentality X100 that most American firms don't have. They ran circles around GoPro and their attempts. Closest analog is Tesla/SpaceX but who knows if even those guys last long term when the guy running it is so easily distracted by nonsense (eg. Buying Twitter, starting yet another company, playing hours of Polytop…
> No because DJI, XPENG, BYD, and a ton of other Chinese companies have this 'move fast and break things' mentality X100 that most American firms don't have. Respectfully, that's ridiculous. The Silicon Valley has a long tradition of "move fast and break things". No no no, this time, it's just that the Chinese companies are simply a lot better than the Western drone companies. Yes, there are many excuses to make ("it…
I'm not going to argue against the fact that the Chinese firms can't and don't do better than American firms (because they can and do do better in many cases), except that it's impossible to know how much or to what extent Chinese firms have financial (or other) backing from the government there. It's an open secret that many "strategic" industries get varying levels of support, often under the table.
BUT: However they got there, DJI is so far ahead on the consumer/commercial side I can't in good faith recommend any alternatives unless you're doing work for the federal and some sensitive state-level government entities.
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I've been annoyed by drones lots of times and never talked to the operators. It's not because I didn't notice.
Perhaps but I fly my Mini 2 regularly, and people have a hard time finding it in the sky even when I point it out to them at 100ft. At 200ft it might as well not exist. They are so small and light, they just don't put out the dBs like bigger drones.
So what you’re saying is we just need a way to make the takeoff and landing quiet. Slingshot…?
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It's fair, but they've been working on improving the quality of their officers since 1904.
Don't know if you were attempting to make a joke, but Stalin purged the army of older, most qualified officers in the late 1930s, because they came from the pre-revolution times and were viewed as a loyalty risk. One of his biggest blunders that severely disadvantaged the country when the WW2 started.
The short version: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yzGqp3R4Mx4
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#395Slightly off topic but it's wild how their online store is almost a direct rip-off of Apple's store. Has this been discussed before?
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#396Light drones are great, but how far away are we from quiet consumer drones? I'd love to not have every hike ruined by some wannabe videographer.
I'd love to have my photoshoot not ruined by some wannabe hiker. it plays both ways
If you’re looking for somewhere outdoors without people may I suggest you not choose a hiking trail…
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#397Slightly off topic but it's wild how their online store is almost a direct rip-off of Apple's store. Has this been discussed before?
LOTS of webstores look just like that.
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#398I always look at these and think I want one but also can't think of what i'd actually use it for. I just picture it sitting in a closet next to my GoPro and Oculus after about 3 days of messing around. Anyone own one? What do you use it for?
The trick is you have to find a way to take it places that satisfy: - It's OK to fly there and you're not going to annoy anyone - You can get some interesting photos. Having previously flow R/C airplanes and aircraft drones like DJI makes are not actually that entertaining to fly, they are too easy and not that engaging. So it's all about the photos. You'll see new people flying at a park or something, but after a wh…
> Having previously flow R/C airplanes and aircraft drones like DJI makes are not actually that entertaining to fly, they are too easy and not that engaging.
This is very much an opinion. I have way more fun with my Air 2 than with any RC plane I've had.
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I wonder if killing their dumber commanders might inadvertently be helping them…
what a strange argument to make
Yeah, I'm serious, I'm not making a 'if you kill your enemies they win' argument but part of learning by doing is having the people who make poor decisions suffer the consequence of those decisions so that there are fewer people around making poor decisions. Especially in the military where you're spending other peoples money and other people suffer the consequences of your misadventures. Of course there is quite a lot of randomness in outcomes, but a blunder of this magnitude is inexcusable considering their line of work. Because of the corruption in the Russian army I would assume there is only a weak link between competence and rank and having an actual enemy around to punish mistakes would be helpful in winnowing out the morons. I'm pretty sure Russia knows they're corrupt and have deliberately adopted a learn by doing strategy to improve their warfighting capability for this very reason.
A big part of the process in undermining an opposition is promoting the worst aspects in them. Instead of killing off a moron, perhaps secretly encourage them to run for office and donate to their political campaigns, secretly buy media coverage for them, etc.
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I did. Thanks!
I don't know how DJI works, but presumably it ships the video out to a service that you then log in to to view? If so, it's on their servers and there's no "networking" you can do to know whether they forwarded it on from there.
"I don't know" - so why leave a comment?
Because you can doesn't mean you have to, especially when you don't actually have any knowledge on the topic at hand. (And, as people have pointed out, this is both a weird and incorrect assumption, adding nothing to the discussion other than confusion.)