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If you use platforms that encourage the use of emoji, your documents will visually blend in with everything written on that platform. The more people use emoji, the less original it is.
In the early 19th century, the OED says, English speakers began using “man” as a colloquial interjection “to express surprise, delight, disbelief, amazement, etc. (freq. in oh man!), or to give force to the statement which it introduces. man alive!”
The Grammarphobia Blog: What’s Up, Man?
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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?
manybutfinite.com
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