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Cake day: July 15th, 2023

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  • On the one hand, it sucks that sometimes really bad people who’ve done really bad things go free because of a seemingly minor technicality.

    On the other, there’s a set process to help keep the law fair. Miranda rights and the need to voice them to suspects when they’re arrested exist because police will totally take advantage of arrestees, and because police have acted unethically towards ignorant people who don’t know what rights they retain when arrested.

    I’m confident Luigi didn’t need a reminder of his rights when arrested, but if the cops really thought they were arresting the killer of that United Health CEO, then there’s no excuse for them not bringing their A-game with how high profile it was all bound to be. It’d be really embarrassing for them if they missed that tiny detail.

    Edit: spelling/grammar








  • Yeah, it (in my case, ChatGPT) has been great for helping me along with functions I’m only passingly familiar with / trying to use in new ways.

    One that I was really surprised with was that it gave me a surprisingly robust, sensible, and (seemingly) well tuned-to-my-case check list of things to inspect for a used car I intend to buy. I’m already mostly familiar with what I’m doing there, but it pointed to some things I might’ve overlooked / didn’t know were points of concern for the specific vehicle I’m looking at.







  • Probably an unpopular opinion, but I’d love to take that as a project vehicle.

    Batteries for home setup (on TOU plan, so it’d be nice to charge when rates are low and discharge when high).
    Then slap an combustion engine in there that just acts as a power plant for the electric motors. It’d probably be biting off more than I can chew, but it sounds like a hell of a learning opportunity and tickles my engineering/tinker brain’s fancy.

    Of course, after blowing something up, I’d probably focus on dissecting the drive train and using them motors for something else. I’m suddenly curious what the suspension set up is like. If they’ve got some crazy high tech mag-ride system, I’ll bet that could be repurposed for another vehicle (pending Tesla proprietary protocols for connecting to ECU).

    But now I’m rambling. The thoughts of what I could do with those parts though.

    Ninjaedit: just took a look as some of the pondering above. I forgot how silly the interiors look, so def wouldn’t bother with attempting it as a project car.