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.

    • mortimerkahn@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      8 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.worldEnglish
          2·
          8 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.worldEnglish
            1·
            8 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.