| ▲ | weinzierl 2 days ago |
| I understand that and it just reinforces my point. What 1 dB essentially means is highly dependent on a most of the time silent context. |
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| ▲ | hgomersall 2 days ago | parent [-] |
| No, it always means a power ratio. That sometimes can imply something else, but that's on you to work that out. |
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| ▲ | lxgr 2 days ago | parent [-] | | 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 2 days ago | parent [-] | | What? Blaming a bad communicator for bad communication is fine. Blaming their words because they used them badly is not. | | |
| ▲ | lxgr 2 days ago | parent [-] | | What about blaming a common but confusing usage of some words pervasive in some fields? |
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