If you keep calling it DB9 everybody knows what you're talking about. They don't think you're weird and they also don't waste time talking about terminology.

▲ OhMeadhbh 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

Words mean things. Especially in engineering disciplines.

It's perfectly fine for a product manager to say "DB9", but the guy who has to order the part from a supplier will probably want to use the correct terminology. If there's a mistake, it's the supplier's fault.

	▲	orphea 5 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		`> Words mean things.` I struggle with someone I work with because of this :( They might as well call a DB9/DE9 a USB connector and expect everyone to understand them. They're both connectors after all, right?
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▲ 9rx 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> If you keep calling it DB9 everybody knows what you're talking about.

But might question what your wiring has to do with a 2000s-era Aston Martin.

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andix 5 days ago | parent [-]

AI image generation can finally express what I picture when hearing Aston Martin DB9: https://chatgpt.com/s/m_6883b37e1fc881919e3af8f862aa7900

	▲	yonatan8070 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		"DE10 isn't real, it can't hurt you"

▲ raggles 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

And this reminds me of the time that my colleague put DB15 on a whole bunch of drawings, and we ended up with DA15 connectors instead of DE15. If I see DB9 on any drawing that comes across my desk, it will be corrected.