The leftmost icon on my browser toolbar is the "kill sticky" bookmarklet (https://github.com/t-mart/kill-sticky). I grew tired of sites hiding the dismiss buttons or omitting them entirely, so anytime something pops up on the page, I instinctively click that. Works on the vast majority of sites.
I also own a W212 E-Class, which I purchased used a few years ago specifically because it's the ideal balance of features I care about (e.g., heated seats and the ability to play MP3 files) without most of the ones I hate (touchscreens and subscription services).
Despite being nearly a decade old at the time of purchase, it was in nearly perfect condition, well-maintained, had low mileage, and had already faced most of the depreciation it ever would.
Dunno what it's like in Cali but in the UK nearly all tickets are generated by automatic cameras and arrive in the post to the registered keeper of the vehicle.
Back in January, I was debating whether to buy an M3 Ultra Mac Studio or waiting for the M5 version, which many believed would be announced two months later.
The 192GB M3 Ultra was on sale at the local Microcenter for $200 below what Apple's own site advertised. Since I knew the RAM shortage would significantly increase the price of the M5 Studio when (or if) it finally did come out, I decided to buy the M3. Time has shown that was the right decision.
Temporal employee here. I'm very surprised by your comment.
It's true that we recently had a Series D and that VC firms recognize the value of what we do. The Temporal Server software is 100% open source (MIT license: https://github.com/temporalio/temporal/blob/main/LICENSE). It's totally free and you don't even need to fill out a registration form, just download precompiled binaries from GitHub or clone the repo and build it yourself. You can self-host it anywhere you like, no restrictions on scale or commercial usage. We offer SaaS (Temporal Cloud), which customers can choose as an alternative self-hosting, based on their needs. The migration path is bi-directional, so not a trap by any definition.
Regarding AI, Temporal is widely used in that space, but that does not negate the thousands of other companies that use Temporal for other things (e.g., order management systems, customer onboarding, loan origination, money movement, cloud infrastructure management, and so on). In fact, our growth in the AI market came about because companies who were already using Temporal for other use cases realized that it also solved the problems they encountered in their AI projects.
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