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Comment by tigerBL00D | Hacker News Reader

"But isn’t that too long and painful (sorry for the pun) to type?" - where's the pun?

The command prior to that text is:

  dig redis +short

So... "long" is the opposite of "short"?

Maybe because it's the opposite of "quick and painless"?

Maybe it's a reference to https://xkcd.com/559/?