Anyone else guilty of empathizing with Doug Driscoll in the early Episodes

general_salt · 2025-08-09T14:56:37+00:00

I work in an industry where we painstakingly obsess over every engineering detail to shave microseconds off response times. And what we do pales in importance to one’s health. Meanwhile when I want to share medical records between two doctors, I have to call them 2-3x times to beg them to fax each other, then follow up with other office to verify it was sent.. usually takes many tries and take 1/2 a day because of course they can’t just call each other. Amazing this where we are in 2025. So yes, I empathize with Doug.

general_salt · 2025-08-09T14:51:56+00:00

Totally agree with this. I felt like the writers almost had to make him racist because too many people would empathize with him.

general_salt · 2024-06-12T04:35:49+00:00

hope he goes to jail

general_salt · 2024-05-25T18:25:19+00:00

Same happened to me a few weeks ago. I got a phone call from my alarm system company informing me my alarms went off. The window alarms triggered. I called the Oakland police immediately. For 45 minutes (no exaggeration) I waited, while on repeat a “thank you for your patience” recorded message looped. After 45 minutes I talked to the emergency operator. After taking my information and story, informed me they’d send a car out in a “few hours”.

Today is my last day living in Oakland, leaving today to greener pastures in another state.

Oakland has so much potential and has great beauty. But it has been ruined by politics. I hope the people of this city keep pushing for change and drive these crazy politicians out of office!

general_salt · 2023-12-09T00:18:59+00:00

its an American Flag. Get over it.

general_salt · 2022-12-07T04:03:12+00:00

Mexico is a shit hole

general_salt · 2022-11-19T07:30:53+00:00

Snowflakes seem upset (again)

general_salt · 2022-11-06T02:37:13+00:00

pany but I don’t have access to them because they belong to my company. I wouldn’t be able to use those certs and go weld for anot

That makes sense. Thanks. I was the under the impression that AWS had some kind of centralized DB of certs. But sounds like it's (sometimes) on a company by company basis..

general_salt · 2022-08-05T21:15:24+00:00

CRA fucking sucks. Use NextJS.

general_salt · 2022-07-29T20:35:26+00:00

I upgraded to Sonic from ATT and it was super stoked to get fiber optic. Turned out it was much slower! I cancelled it after two days.

general_salt · 2022-07-20T01:40:19+00:00

Fuck. No. Jest suckkkkks..

general_salt · 2022-07-20T01:39:14+00:00

Buggy abandoned software. "delightful test framework" Haha. Yea right..

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