Comment on xkcd #3151: Window Screen
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Screened in my brother’s porch a few years ago. Had to basically make 5 of these. In theory, they were all gonna be squares. One giant one that’s like 12x7 feet, a smaller one that’s 12x4, a tall one 2x7, et cetera. Not a single one was actually square. It took us days.
I fully support this addition to the novel prize categories
Tja@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
That’s… that’s not what a square is…
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Square in carpentry is used a little differently. It includes rectangles, and is more about the corners being 90 degree right angles. In fact, a carpenters square is a tool that is triangle shaped!
balsoft@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
I’m not a carpenter and not a native speaker, but I would’ve thought that meaning only applied to the adjective (this window is square) and not the noun (that windows is a square).
TunaLobster@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I love using a speed square! Such a great tool!
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
I love woodworking, and many years ago when I first trying to get some tools together, with very, very little money to my name, a friend of a friend gifted me a bunch of stuff, but it was all metric. My speed square was the only non metric tool I had (I’m in the States). Took me forever to find a metric speed square I could afford. Lol. It suuuuuucked doing the conversion for everything. Lol
Tja@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Huh, TIL.
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Yeah, it’s always weird when a particular hobby or industry uses a common term in an unique or uncommon way.
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Every square is a rectangle but the other way around.