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I’m not convinced Snarf is still a good name for any function in any piece of software these days. Or ever was, to be honest.

It got that name from Acme. I don't think it's any worse than "yank", which most of us continue to put up with.

I know it has. That's why I said "still". To be honest, yank is also not great. Both terms were invented back in the day the industry hasn't settled yet on copy and paste. For new software, choosing such names is counter-productive.

One (kill) ring to find them...

Snarf always remembers me of the Thundercats pet.

Such a great theme tune. That scream from mumm-ra is the icing on the cake.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooVDv8kuzXY

Wow, something I didn't know was in my brain, and you found it. Snarf!

Yeah definitely should be something modern and respectable like Hugging Face

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