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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    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.

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      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

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          You have to escape the quotes…

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

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            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)

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

                Especially with legacy systems and customer requirements.

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                  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.

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              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.

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        This one of those things that sounds correct, but isn’t even remotely true. Like not at all, not even based on anything even.

        Wall finishes varies in thickness wildly, and the milled wood also varies in final dimensions depending on moisture content.

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          Their comment made me almost consider posting an emoji on Lemmy.

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          Wall finished vary in thickness wildly

          When I was designing kitchens, I and literally everyone in the construction industry around me all assumed that drywall was 1/2”

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            Fire rated partition wall? 2 layers of 5/8 each side for a total thickness of 6”

            Not to mention the other side already needs a finish making it 4-1/2 already if they are both 1/2 claddings.

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              Come to think of it I think we were modeling it as 3/4 on each side, because I seem to remember the 3.5” 2x4 stud becoming a full integer thickness with drywall on both sides

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        Factually incorrect; the board is 2 inches by 4 inches (or whatever the marked dimension is) when rough sawn. After kiln drying and milling, it will be 1.5" thick and 3.5" wide. It still took 2 by 4 inches of the tree to make so that’s what you pay for.