Unfortunately in this case meets requirements just means it ticks a box. The meme is talking about people thinking military grade is top of the line. Like how the cheapest tire you can buy is legal and meets regulations, but it doesn’t mean it’s good.
The same way building contractors advertise their work with “everything built to code”. Yeah, building code is the bare minimum requirement for something to be legally put on the market. Building to code isn’t a brag. It’s saying “we do everything as cheaply as possible. If we cut any more corners, the house would literally be illegal to sell.”
The cheapest possible product that meets the requirements.
This describes most of the Internet. Which, naturally, was a orginally a (D)ARPA project.
that…sounds good?
Unfortunately in this case meets requirements just means it ticks a box. The meme is talking about people thinking military grade is top of the line. Like how the cheapest tire you can buy is legal and meets regulations, but it doesn’t mean it’s good.
The same way building contractors advertise their work with “everything built to code”. Yeah, building code is the bare minimum requirement for something to be legally put on the market. Building to code isn’t a brag. It’s saying “we do everything as cheaply as possible. If we cut any more corners, the house would literally be illegal to sell.”
And even then entirely too many new home builders here in the US cut corners and try to wiggle out of code requirements.
It’s more like “meets” requirements
And usually it’s specifically functional requirements. Unless it was spelled out, it was considered and or was designed out / shitty to save cash
I guess cheapest to manufacture, but not necessatily cheapest to buy