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amszmidt 18 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?

You need to go back a few more hundreds of years, hunk is an old term that just means "small piece of something larger".

It has been in common usage in computing since long before 1985 .. for a really interesting and obscure way hunk has been used:

https://www.maclisp.info/pitmanual/hunks.html

Gracana 17 days ago [–]

That’s a good one. And yes, of course I mean its history of usage in computing, not in general.

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