One notable exception: temperature ranges for electronics. The electronics may be shit, but they will still work when the soldier is an ice popsicle or a roasted piece of meat.
They just made the winning bid
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Treczoks@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
CucumberFetish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour ago
Military or automotive grade electronics go hard
ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
Little1Lost@gehirneimer.de 12 hours ago
Affirmative!
this_1_is_mine@lemmy.ml 10 hours ago
or attempts at water proofing… I didn’t say it worked I said attempts were attempted.
iocase@lemmy.zip 10 hours ago
“lowest bidder and manufactured as shittily as possible without violating the contract” doesn’t roll of the tongue quite the same.
pelya@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Green paint will be extra $2000.
Alatain@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I worked on a green missile system. This is very accurate
TheMuffinMan@piefed.world 22 hours ago
As someone who works in defence & surveillance as a systems engineer (so by every measure a civilian), I’m still the one on the right… military grade hardware is a fucking nightmare to integrate into larger systems.
affenlehrer@feddit.org 20 hours ago
I believe you but can you explain why?
MeatPilot@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
Are we getting a schematic of proprietary technology on Lemmy? Let me get my notebook.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I’m guessing poor documentation exacerbated by security clearance checks.
jlow@slrpnk.net 13 hours ago
I saw “military grade” phone screen protectors at the charity shop today (made me lol), so this is quite timely!
Johnmannesca@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Well ATAK is a thing, so it better have a mighty hinge or else it’s not fit for combat
hansolo@lemmy.today 11 hours ago
How the bots aggregate upvotes that are likely veterans.
Lemmy is public, y’all. Be careful.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
What perceived risk are you trying to imply?
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Really depends on what you want and expect. “Military Grade” or real military surplus? I’ve been happy with my diesel generator and the jerry cans are definitely better then civilian stuff. I managed to get a military surplus 6.2L diesel engine for a engine swap, which has a few advantages over the civilian version. Water proof, steel ammo cans are definitely plastic shoe boxes from walmart.
Paddzr@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Not sure about US but UK Surplus clothing is the best. I have tropic trousers and they’re not only super comfortable, they’re the most practical with insane amount of pockets and will survive whatever i do in them… and they cost 1/4 of a store brand jeans.
Tops are also super cheap but you can get away with camo pants, camo long sleeves makes you stand out. But the bug repellant treated tops are awesome in the summer.
Napster153@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Man I want to get military surplus too just to date curiosity but I am afraid of getting yeeted into the Larpers’ group.
darthsundhaft@piefed.social 21 hours ago
Why are they making a 3rd movie? Pixar needs to stop.
cobysev@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
It’s not Pixar, it’s Disney.
Pixar got its animation start when John Lasseter got fired from Disney for promoting CG animation over the traditional hand-drawn animation. He moved over to the Lucasfilm CG studio, which was later renamed “Pixar.”
Through Pixar (after Steve Jobs bought it from George Lucas), Lasseter and his team proceeded to not only revolutionize CG animation, but to create incredible unique stories with it. They were seen as a real competitor to Disney for a while. They only started making sequels when they started collaborating with Disney.
Eventually, Disney realized the money to be made from CG animation, so they bought out Pixar. Now it’s a Disney product and their ideas are bankrupt once again. We don’t get original stories anymore, just a bunch of unnecessary sequels and garbage films that were probably written by AI.
shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works 22 hours ago
The cheapest possible product that meets the requirements.
TomMasz@piefed.social 19 hours ago
This describes most of the Internet. Which, naturally, was a orginally a (D)ARPA project.
Delphia@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
As opposed to the vast majority of consumer products?
Winter_Oven@piefed.social 21 hours ago
that…sounds good?
thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
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
scytale@piefed.zip 19 hours ago
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.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
It depends on how well you specified the requirements. Like not leaving out things you might consider obvious. Eg if you’re specifying a sight that includes a range scale, make sure you include that the ranges should be calibrated such that calibrating it at one range will make it accurate at the others instead of just adding random lines and numbers that look like it shows correct range dropoff, and that the ranges correspond to the ammunition that will be fired instead of just copy/pasting from a .22 range sight.
Think of it like making a wish from a genie (folklore genie, not disney).
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I review bids for government frequently. The requirement is to accept the lowest bid that meets all the requirements. The thing is, if the requirements aren’t written well, it can be a very, very bad deal.
For instance we bid out for a janitorial contract where the bid did not include refilling cleaner bottles from the dispenser in the janitorial closet, so we had to accept a bid where that wasn’t included, and they charged us $60 every time they topped off the bottles.
xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
I guess cheapest to manufacture, but not necessatily cheapest to buy