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But gas pipelines and defense agreements and department stores guarantee only so much attention in the Gulf. “We’re not the only ones with a lot of money. We’re not the only ones who are doing these arms deals. . . . So what do you do?” Khalid, the businessman, said. “You buy influence by getting into sports, because that’s where people talk about you.”
At Qatar’s World Cup, Where Politics and Pleasure Collide | The New Yorker
Sam Knight
Bimyou has roots in the Buddhist concept mimyo, referring to something of an indescribable wonder. Its widely used meaning is “subtle,” which has a pleasant literary quality. By 2000, it had morphed into something more colloquially, dismissively bland and was the most widely recognized piece of slang in a 2015 survey by the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs.
The Good, the Bad, and the Bimyou
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The solution here is to have a dynamic tick so that when the CPU is idle, the timer interrupt is either deactivated or reprogrammed to happen at a point where the kernel knows there will be work to do (for example, a process might have a timer expiring in 5 seconds, so we must not sleep past that). This is also called tickless mode.
What Does an Idle CPU Do?
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