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hgomersall
on May 22, 2025
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The scientific “unit” we call the decibel
No, it always means a power ratio. That sometimes can imply something else, but that's on you to work that out.
lxgr
on May 22, 2025
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Yes, but that, i.e. putting the burden of disambiguating some meaning from context on the receiver instead of the sender, is just bad communication.
hgomersall
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What? Blaming a bad communicator for bad communication is fine. Blaming their words because they used them badly is not.
lxgr
on May 22, 2025
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What about blaming a common but confusing usage of some words pervasive in some fields?
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