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.

  • @bhmnscmm
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    3310 months ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      1310 months ago

      You have to escape the quotes…

      “2\“x4\”” or use differing quotes ‘2"x4"’

      • @[email protected]
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        410 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
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        110 months ago

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

        • @aulin
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          110 months ago

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

          • @jaybone
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            210 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
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              110 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
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          010 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.