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  2. Sleep (system call) - Wikipedia

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    The sleep() function call can be repeatedly called for short periods of time to slow the execution of a running program or code. Throttling code in this manner provides a coarse mechanism for mitigating the effects of overheating hardware [7] or easing timing issues for legacy programs. The downside to cycling sleep and running states rather ...

  3. Spinlock - Wikipedia

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    A few multi-core processors have a "power-conscious spin-lock" instruction that puts a processor to sleep, then wakes it up on the next cycle after the lock is freed. A spin-lock using such instructions is more efficient and uses less energy than spin locks with or without a back-off loop.

  4. 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.

  5. Troubleshooting AOL Desktop Gold

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    1. Click the Edit menu at the top | Select Footprints to Clear. 2. Check the box next to Browser Cache. This option will clear the temporary browser files which can cause crashes. To revert this option, click the Edit menu at the top | Select Footprints to Clear and then uncheck the Browser cache box.

  6. sleep (command) - Wikipedia

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    [7] A sleep command is also part of ASCII's MSX-DOS2 Tools for MSX-DOS version 2. [8] In PowerShell, sleep is a predefined command alias for the Start-Sleep cmdlet which serves the same purpose. [9] Microsoft also provides a sleep resource kit tool for Windows which can be used in batch files or the command prompt to pause the execution and ...

  7. Fix problems sending AOL Mail - AOL Help

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    If you have any combination of "AOL" in your display name, the message won't go through. It is especially important to check your Mail settings for this if your account has been recently compromised, as hackers will often change your name to make it harder for you to use your account normally even after it's secured. Clear your browser's cache

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  9. Merch glorifying UnitedHealthcare CEO killer floods online stores

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    On e-commerce platforms like Etsy, TikTok Shop, eBay and Redbubble, sellers are hawking merchandise featuring designs inspired by the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.