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1 .SH usenix
2 A Guide to Hell by J. Mickens
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4 .QP
5 As a highly trained academic researcher, I spend a lot of time trying
6 to advance the frontiers of human knowledge. However, as someone
7 who was born in the South, I secretly believe that true progress is
8 a fantasy, and that I need to prepare for the end times, and for the chickens
9 coming home to roost, and fast zombies, and slow zombies, and the polite
10 zombies who say "sir" and "ma'am" but then try to eat your brain to acquire
11 your skills. When the revolution comes, I need to be prepared; thus, in the
12 quiet moments, when I'm not producing incredible scientific breakthroughs,
13 I think about what I'll do when the weather forecast inevitably becomes
14 RIVERS OF BLOOD ALL DAY EVERY DAY. [...]
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16 .PP
17 If James Mickens looks like he is a highly trained soldier killing
18 zombies in the doomed lands of System Programming,
19 that is because James Mickens is a highly trained soldier killing
20 zombies in the doomed lands of System Programming.
21 .
22 .DS
23 https://usenix.org/system/files/1311_05-08_mickens.pdf
24 .DE