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mgkimsal

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About mgkimsal

Available for php / laravel / vue / js work. michael@kimsal.com https://kimsal.com dQ1AM9QUQN

meet.hn/city/35.9803138,-78.5103731/Wake-Forest

Interests: Entrepreneurship, Music, Web Development

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Recent public activity

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    global tariffs via ieepa or similar legislation - base flat tariffs against all imports from all countries - I think those will go. Biden kept some targeted tariffs, but didn't mas…

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    Comment #49210847

    > thus paying more in taxes If the taxes were being spent to help those who were not working (unable to or for whatever reason) maybe that would be fine. We might take in more taxe…

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    Comment #48837891

    I must be at least the 5th 13mini user.

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    Comment #48708330

    would be nice to be able to link to an individual menu. cool collection, just harder to share some specific ones with friends.

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    Comment #48703743

    go further and let me have the same persona in townsquares across various sites. or have you already described why you wouldn't want to do that?

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    Comment #48681638

    I've never been to a place where you order by QR code where somehow the bill is joined together in one order for the table. Everything I order on the phone I pay for before they br…

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    Comment #48117144

    In the senior realm here - would love to chat with folks over lunch, brainstorm, assist, mentor, guide, etc. Can't do that AND be expected to deliver code at a 'full time' expected…

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    Comment #47984443

    This is under-recognized by many folks. That full impact of the that aspect of the 2017 TCJA was hard to predict when it was so far in the future, and when it hit, we were dealing …

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    Comment #47832773

    I think the more useful part is the parts that checks a ticket, fixes a bug, then opens the PR automatically. Whether you get an email or a phone text or call from a voice agent is…

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    Comment #47609332

    Tangential rant about WP. Having got back in to some WP in the last year, the big thing that struck me compared to other framework/environments is... no... build step, or even plug…

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    Comment #47569613

    > unless it impacts them directly they won't believe it. They may end up believing they are being impacted, but many will still deny or argue the root cause.

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    Comment #47263986

    Unsure where you got that from? If a company that has had to lay off staff and reduce hours because of increase in expenses because of tariffs, then they get a chunk of money back,…

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    Comment #47262566

    One thing I don't see mentioned enough with the whole "the consumers paid these tariffs! we should get refunds!"... We "paid" not just in higher prices, but in many layoffs, reduct…

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    Comment #47247389

    "...typescript to javascript" Country AND Western!

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    Comment #46926009

    I read that as combined, up to this point in time. You have 20 engineers? If you haven't spent at least $20k up to this point, you've not explored or experienced enough of the ins …

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    Comment #46879071

    Thanks... 2 years felt a bit too recent. I think I was trialing copilot in late 2022, and then got turned on to ... codeium/windsurf in late 2023. The years are merging together no…

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    Comment #46857241

    > No, there is Github Copilot, the AI agent tool that also has autocomplete, and a chat UI. When it came out, Github Copilot was an autocomplete tool. That's it. That may be what t…

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    Comment #46491125

    The 'comment becomes a lie' is because you've got magic number there in the comment. If the comment was // We match them by looking for equal-opposite amounts within an X-day windo…

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    Comment #46361541

    I doubt it was even under version control...

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    Comment #46236026

    Can't edit but... an adult who grew up in the US their entire life who can't read out "acetaminophen" or "yosemite" is certainly under-literate.

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    Comment #46233548

    Make Arial Great Again

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    Comment #46232657

    Petty as in 'small and does not really matter' or petty as in 'vindictive'. All administrations do many small things that may not ultimately have much impact, but often those may b…

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    Comment #46232602

    > if a person is visually impaired, why wouldn't they have tools at their disposal to make things readable? If it's on a screen in a browser, probably. If it's printed, or on a dis…

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    Comment #46232536

    But it's not a joke. We've had a decade of reports with insiders indicating he doesn't read daily briefings. https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-looks-at-charts-in-int... Can he …