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   iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jan-2024 23:30:02 JST iced depresso
   even though i can do some audio i still don't really know what a decibel is other than a thing you always have too much or too little of :blobcatmelt:
   
   something to do with a ratio of power fields
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     paul (paul@post.lurk.org)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jan-2024 23:36:55 JST paul

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     @icedquinn I'm reminded of a joke my professor once told me: "The decibel, like incest, is relative."

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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jan-2024 23:37:31 JST iced depresso

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     • paul
     @paul i looked in to it recently because it came up in an EE book. though they were using nepers instead.
     
     apparently neps and bels are the same shit but one uses base 10 and the other uses natural logs
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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jan-2024 23:40:51 JST iced depresso

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     • paul
     @paul https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neper
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     paul (paul@post.lurk.org)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jan-2024 23:40:52 JST paul

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     @icedquinn never heard of a nep before. what year was the book published.

     I think the Bel was a unit invented by Bell Labs to measure degradation of a signal over copper wire. Wonder where the Nep origin came from.