The systems programmer has read the kernel source, to better understand the deep ways of the universe, and the systems programmer has seen the comment in the scheduler that says “DOES THIS WORK LOL,” and the systems programmer has wept instead of LOLed, and the systems programmer has submitted a kernel patch to restore balance to The Force and fix the priority inversion that was causing MySQL to hang. A systems programmer will know what to do when society breaks down, because the systems programmer already lives in a world without law.
See also: James Mickens, The Night Watch.
Thank you for introducing me to my new second favorite piece of literature titled “Night Watch”!
Sam Vimes would be a conflicted member for a post-end-times forecast-says-blood kind of gang.