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Comment by imglorp

2 months ago

Sometimes English is not swell as a specification format.

> ff trim video.mp4 from 0:30 to 1:00

Does this mean I keep the indicated section or does it mean I throw it away?

And many other examples of English sucking at ambiguity when precision matters. Maybe this is a corollary of " naming things is hard ".

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