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!

[–] TunaLobster@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 days 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 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Huh, TIL.

[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 7 points 6 days 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 6 days 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 6 days ago

That's fair. Lol.