I love using a speed square! Such a great tool!
Comment on xkcd #3151: Window Screen
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 3 weeks agoSquare 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!
TunaLobster@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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.
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
To be fair, i don’t think it’s super standard to say “they were all gonna be squares” plural like that. It would be more correct to use it singularly there I think.
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
That’s fair. Lol.
balsoft@lemmy.ml 2 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).