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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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You waste a little bit of silicon, but silicon’s pretty cheap. For example, he noted, “the standard way of building oscillators is to build one and then multiplex it until you have as many as you need. We were using people who were there anyway,” said Ziembicki. It’s only sand.” We did it in a very modular fashion,” said Yannes.

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Devil In The Details: Is Copenhagens 2 ºC Guardrail Obsolete?

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Neil Adger and Jon Barnett lay out four “reasons for concern about adaptation” to climate change, to counter “what we perceive to be a widespread belief that adaptation will be smooth, cheap, and easy to implement.”. C, is warranted.”. Required rates of decarbonization with the potential to.