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Only 5.3% of US welders are women. After years as a professor, I became one

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254 points Michelangelo11 | 1 comments | 06 Nov 24 00:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source
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martin293 ◴[06 Nov 24 15:28 UTC] No.42063782[source]▶
> One man, watching me while I cut 8-foot lengths of tubing for him, told me that I could simply hook my tape measure over the saw blade and subtract ⅛-inch to find the correct length. Piqued after I explained why his method wouldn’t work for a precise measurement, he responded by quizzing me on something I wasn’t likely to know: the purpose of the black diamonds on my tape measure.

Perhaps I'm picturing the situation wrong, but why wouldn't it work on the precision levels of a tape measure?

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1. Cerium ◴[06 Nov 24 17:26 UTC] No.42065763[source]▶
The request may have been to take a 24 foot segment and cut it into equal nearly 8 foot segments. Measuring all at once lets you avoid the last piece being notably shorter.