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Even now, 91% of U.K. adults see or hear something on the BBC every week. And contrary to what many believe, 80% of people under 35 young people still consume BBC content. Globally, the BBC attracts 468 million people per week and is the most trusted provider of news by some distance.
The BBC at 100: A Century of Informing, Educating, Entertaining — And Trying to Keep Politicians Honest
niemanlab.org
In Mandarin, ma means horse and hu means tiger; the idiom mamahuhu literally translates, then, as “horse horse tiger tiger.” In one of the fables that explains its origins, a slapdash artist paints a tiger’s head but changes his mind midway and completes the creature with a horse’s body. (Etymologically, it most likely began as a colloquialism borrowed from Manchu culture during the Qing dynasty.)
Forget About Perfection. Embrace ‘Mamahuhu.’
Vanessa Hua
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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