Five hours later, you're seven tabs deep in a LWN.net discussion about kernel scheduler anomalies. You've read the original git blame for a line changed in 2005 by a maintainer who now runs a goat farm in Vermont. You understand, for a brief, terrible moment, why the C standard library does what it does with memcpy on non-overlapping blocks.
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The geek doesn't break reality. The geek understands it—and fixes it with a pull request at 11:47 PM on a Sunday. Five hours later, you're seven tabs deep in a LWN
It sounds like you're channeling a very specific vibe: Five hours later