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A Cheapskate in Monterey

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Among several modestly priced hotels there, I booked the Hotel Abrego , where my $130-a-night room included a Keurig coffee machine and spacious glassed-in shower. Nearby, my favorite cheap find, El Charrito Express , served substantial barbacoa wraps stuffed with marinated beef, beans and rice for $6.99.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

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Brooks, who is now working on his third robotics startup, Robust.AI , has written hundreds of articles and half a dozen books and was featured in the motion picture Fast, Cheap & Out of Control. He’s also turned it into a book. And it’s really cheap. It doesn’t have any connection to the world. I’ve read it.

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When They Electrified Christmas

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Whether for religious or secular celebrations, the variety and functionality of lights have exploded in recent years, abetted by cheap and colorful LEDs and compact electronics. advertised "Winking Fairy Lights for Christmas Trees" in Hardware Dealers' Magazine. In much of the world, December is a month of twinkling lights. of Chicago.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

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Such an architecture stores data as it is received, stacking it like a pile of books. Cheap pays off Although the Adobe group made some key technical breakthroughs, three other components were necessary to make PostScript a runaway success not just in low-volume professional publishing but in the high-volume office environment.

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Chrysler's first electric car to be two-seat sports car - Apr. 15, 2009

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More Miami on the cheap House prices in Miami soared, then crashed. Photos First drive: Chevy Volt test A few laps behind the wheel of an early version of GMs electric car shows the strengths - and possible weaknesses - of the technology. Answer a few questions and get graded on your money skills.

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?How a Design Battle Between Chip Engineers Led to Polaroid’s Revolutionary SX-70 Camera

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Still, though the parts were not cheap, costing Fairchild approximately $20 or $30 each, they were manufacturable. At the highest level of TI, however, the book was not being closed. The chips would be surface mounted to the board in a miniDIP package, a method of volume assembly then new and risky but cheap. (It

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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. Jack [Tramiel] made the bet that by the time we were ready to produce a product, 64K Rams would be cheap enough for us to use,” Charpentier said. Computer bookstores carry a wide selection of books on the C-64. It’s only sand.” Among those recommended are.

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