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  2. Sleep (system call) - Wikipedia

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    The sleep library function, on the other hand, is implemented via the alarm syscall on many older systems, thus it only works by delivering a signal. The Windows Sleep function is non-interruptible due to absence of signals (other than the thread or its process being terminated), although the related SleepEx function can be used to put the ...

  3. Busy waiting - Wikipedia

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    Busy-waiting itself can be made much less wasteful by using a delay function (e.g., sleep()) found in most operating systems. This puts a thread to sleep for a specified time, during which the thread will waste no CPU time. If the loop is checking something simple then it will spend most of its time asleep and will waste very little CPU time.

  4. DevSlp - Wikipedia

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    DevSlp or DevSleep (sometimes referred to as device sleep or SATA DEVSLP) is a feature in some SATA devices which allows them to go into a low power "device sleep" mode when sent the appropriate signal, which uses one or two orders of magnitude less power than a traditional idle (about 5 mW, [1] but some drives can get as low as 2.5 mW [2]).

  5. 'Landman' Star Billy Bob Thornton Makes Rare Appearance With ...

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    “I went to the [1883] premiere in Las Vegas, and after that we had a dinner and Taylor sat next to me and he said, ‘Listen, I’ve got a thing I’m going to write around you.

  6. After Pornhub left Florida, VPN demand surged by more ... - AOL

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    Pornhub exited Florida at the start of the year because of a new age-verification law. The HB3 law requires users to provide ID to access adult sites.

  7. The NBA has a 'missing stars' problem with injuries piling up ...

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    As players suffer, so does the product. The injury problem looms large in the audience data. According to Sports Media Watch tracking, ESPN games in the opening weeks of the season have seen a 34% ...

  8. Fix problems signing into your AOL account - AOL Help

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    If you're caught in a loop where the sign-in screen keeps reappearing after you click "Sign in," you'll need to reset the "sign-in" cookie. After entering your username on the sign-in page, click Not you? Enter your username and password. Click Sign in. If that doesn't fix the problem, try these steps and attempt to sign in after each one:

  9. Spurious wakeup - Wikipedia

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    The system treats every signal( ) to wake one thread as a broadcast( ) to wake all of them, thus breaking any possibly expected 1:1 relationship between signals and wakeup. [1] If ten threads are waiting, only one will win and the other nine will experience spurious wakeup.