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I dont know why they have to lie about it. At $5/8ft board you'd think I paid for the full 1.5. Edit: I mixed up nominal with actual.

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[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 169 points 6 months ago

Shouldn't the normal size be 2? Given, well, the name?

[-] InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works 172 points 6 months ago

You'd think so, but no.
Short story is the 'nominal' size is the size before going into a planer to smooth the faces.
Yes, it makes little sense, like many things related to construction stuff.

[-] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 111 points 6 months ago

Yeah sorry. The tree was originally 50ft tall so we call the pieces that. But you only get 3ft

Is like buying 1200lbs steaks because that's what the cow weighs before it gets parted

[-] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 78 points 6 months ago

Better example would be raw vs cooked weight of a 1/4lb paddy.

[-] AmidFuror@fedia.io 28 points 6 months ago

Exactly. Because it is easier to weigh the correct amount before cooking than find out you were wrong after.

But you should probably be feeding Patrick more.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 28 points 6 months ago

That's a very small area to grow rice in.

[-] EinfachUnersetzlich@lemm.ee 17 points 6 months ago

Or a very offended Irish person.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago
[-] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 months ago

They prefer vertically challenged....don't be insensitive

[-] abbadon420@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago

A full bag of crisps, but a third is just air

[-] maniacal_gaff@lemmy.world 24 points 6 months ago
[-] bhmnscmm@lemmy.world 33 points 6 months ago

And if you're a fan of quotation marks you could call it a "2"x4"."

[-] FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works 13 points 6 months ago

You have to escape the quotes....

"2\"x4\"" or use differing quotes '2"x4"'

[-] mortimerkahn@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago

I think this is an excellent time to point out that curl quotes (“ ”) are what are typographically used for quotations and apostrophes and hash marks (" ') are what are used for feet and inches. So it would look something like:

“ 2"× 4' ”

(Spacing is still a bit ugly, I’d kern me some quote marks)

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

In CSV, you escape a double quote with a double quote.

[-] aulin@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Or use tsv or xsv and never quote a field again.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Sometimes we don’t get to pick what libraries and data formats we work with.

Especially with legacy systems and customer requirements.

[-] aulin@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

I know. I have nothing against the format in general, as it's plain text and will always be readable. I actually prefer it to Excel sheets, although a proper database is the nicest. It's just annoying that someone chose comma, a super commonly used punctuation mark, as default field separator for csv.

[-] KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago

In CSV you do whatever the fuck you want, and afterwards you delete the file cause CSV is trash and no one should use it.

You did that on purpose, you misanthrope.

[-] lurch@sh.itjust.works 11 points 6 months ago

ah the infamous NaN lumber 🤣

[-] InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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