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 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That's... that's not what a square is...

[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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!

[–] Tja@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Huh, TIL.

[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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 2 points 1 week ago

That's fair. Lol.

[–] TunaLobster@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I love using a speed square! Such a great tool!

[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week 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

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Every square is a rectangle but the other way around.