Decibels are ridiculous
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2025-05-25 00:06
What’s a decibel? Well, the most common answer is “uhh”. The second most common answer is that it’s “a way to measure loudness”. But it isn’t! A decibel is not a unit in any conventional sense: it’s more akin to a prefix such as mega- in megabyte. It describes a change in magnitude.