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is there some metaphor i’m missing or is it just funny?

• CraigJPerry 2y ago
  tuna fish Tune-a-fish EDIT: looks like there’s a bit more to it https://unixhistory.livejournal.com/1808.html https://unixhistory.livejournal.com/1808.html
• deleted 2y ago
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• kps 2y ago
  The phrase originates with the ‘BUGS’ section of the 4.2BSD man page for the `tunefs(8)` command, for the Berkeley Fast File System that is the topic of the OP article.
  • gjvc 2y ago
    This, but in true to form HN style, if you don't recognise the reference, it's psychologically safer to down vote what you don't know.
    • macintux 2y ago
      Even if you do recognize it, this isn’t Reddit.
      • gjvc 2y ago
        /r/confidentlyincorrect
    • luqtas 2y ago
      karma worth a little on the influencer age
• jhbadger 2y ago
  It's a reference to a joke by the comedian Groucho Marx (1890-1977) "You can tune a piano but you can't tuna fish" (also a title of a 1978 REO Speedwagon album paying homage to Marx who had recently died). It's a pun on "tune a" and "tuna".