Althouse: Morning fog.

April 15, 2026

Morning fog.

Video by Meade.

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56 comments:

Howard said...: Misty morning fog reminds me of Van Morrison's Brown Eyed Girl; 4/15/26, 10:36 AM
DINKY DAU 45 said...: Renegade, Commandment and Further Ado (Loved last race) are the ones seriously looking at for first Saturday in May race. I 'll continue to go back and watch the last races of all contenders make a morning line odds of my own and getting ready to send it in.Paladin out (Vegas favorite)Renegade ONLY CONTENDER coming last 1/8 in under 12 (11.84) strong finisher,but Loved FURTHER ADO by 11 lengths in 149.58 at 1/8 closing like a freight train and then in hand to wire. Sired by CLASSIC EMPIRE out of a STAY THIRSTY mare bred for stamina and distance of the 1/1/4 event. Impressive but not that hot on competition in that race? Top jocks shifting around and most honoring their normal calls for trainers.; 4/15/26, 10:41 AM
Peachy said...: OT:
Check out the manic loser known at Tucker Carlson.
Yikes. the manic is escalating.; 4/15/26, 10:50 AM
Achilles said...: Even cloudy days with no leaves can be nice.

But I am glad we have leaves now. Spring is so much better.; 4/15/26, 11:21 AM
Kevin said...: Is that "fog in the morning" or "good morning, fog"?; 4/15/26, 11:40 AM
FullMoon said...: "Kevin said...
Is that "fog in the morning" or "good morning, fog"?:

Or, Good! Morning fog!; 4/15/26, 11:52 AM
Iman said...: Boil it down!

https://x.com/Adi13/status/2044119050322600346?s=20; 4/15/26, 12:04 PM
Achilles said...: Watching men in flip flops in a shithole dirt parking lot fix giant million dollar pieces of equipment with rolling welding kits and sledge hammers.

People that work for OSHA need to be required to work for a year in these places.; 4/15/26, 12:26 PM
Howard said...: You boil down for syrup and you distill it for spirits. Get your metaphors straight; 4/15/26, 12:27 PM
Iman said...: GRANDPA’s FREE ADVICE
@GOP_is_Gutless
🚨 BIG WIN: Supreme Court 7-2 ruling delivers a massive blow to mail-in ballot loopholes!

The “shadow” election games just got harder. Candidates can now challenge shady rules — no more counting ballots days or weeks after Election Day in key states.

Rule of law restored. 2028 just got a lot fairer.

Democrats in full panic mode. 🇺🇸

https://x.com/GOP_is_Gutless/status/2044387055581401371?s=20; 4/15/26, 12:29 PM
Howard said...: I prefer the term safety sandals to flip-flops. I'll split wood and sandals but I draw the line at working the forge.; 4/15/26, 12:29 PM
Iman said...: You boil it down so the meat falls off the bone, Howee.

You people never learn.; 4/15/26, 12:31 PM
Achilles said...: At 18:00 in that video they start putting some of the gear boxes back together.

In flip flops in a dirt parking lot.

So unreal. 2 completely different worlds colliding but also demonstrating what we are really capable of.; 4/15/26, 12:39 PM
Achilles said...: I mistyped, actually starts at 17 minutes.

the complexity of the process is the interesting part.

the question becomes if you can fix it can you also design it?

How many super small things make up the larger whole.

Did someone have to build a smaller tractor before someone built this current monstrosity that these men in a dirt parking lot are rebuilding.

AGI is forcing me to think about how we think.

what is a context window? nobody can remember all of the parts to build that tractor, but they can learn about it as they take it apart and put it back together.

How does that connect to a different tractor? the parts are different but they do the same thing?

so you use abstraction to increase your context window.

How much can we expand our capability by transferring memory work to a computer screen or a book full of pictures and diagrams; 4/15/26, 12:53 PM
john mosby said...: Achilles, on the other hand, BBC News last night had an investigative piece about a children’s clinic in Pakistan that was breaking all the rules about reusing needles and other protective measures. So maybe some regulation is a good thing. Or maybe it’s just North European culture, which would operate about the same with or without government rules. CC, JSM; 4/15/26, 12:57 PM
Aggie said...: Howard, OSHA can be a real PITA for heavy operations, but I think you need a little perspective. Maybe consider living in the 3rd world for a year, where you can see the legacy of repairs like this, as well as all of the other niceties.

Sure, they're showing some talent and grit, but they're doing it because they have no alternative, except to be without the equipment. There's probably no repair shop for 100 miles, and it probably isn't certified. Some of our regulatory and certification stuff serves a certain baseline purpose.

I was moving a rig once in central Tunisia and saw one of the trucks coming around the corner with a skid-mounted, 1500 hp mud pump. Weighs around 7 - 9 tons, altogether. But no problem, the driver had secured the load onto his bed using a length of 1/2" polypropylene rope that probably had a good bit of life left in it, well parts of it, anyway.

When you see these gentlemen doing amazing repair work on YouTube, you're not seeing how long it holds together, or how actually functional the result is, compared to a shop repair. Big difference. Voice of experience here - I've sometimes had to do things the hard way, in the field. There's a saying: 'If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it again?' Substitute the word 'resources' for 'time', and that is a reality that one sometimes comes up against. That's why I used to spend most of my time, planning - easily 3x as much as the actual execution.; 4/15/26, 1:31 PM
john mosby said...: I think Lisa Kudrow just stood up for Trump a little bit.

So I am watching the Claudia Winkleman Show on Peacock. Claudia may be known to Anglophile Yanks as the host of The Traitors, and as a longtime BBC fixture. She graduated from an elite girls' day school and Cambridge and is rather hot in a sort of debauched aristocratic way, although she dresses to hide her figure. Anyway, her new show is kind of like Graham Norton, but on a smaller darker set so it seems like her actual living room, or the VIP section at a posh club. But the same formula, with four guests on a couch. No musical acts, though. I do recommend it.

So Lisa Kudrow was one of the guests, and another one was Jimmy Carr, fey Britcomedian and perennial talk show guest. Carr, in the middle of a riff about other stuff, said "do you remember that reality show The Apprentice? Well the host of that show has a new one called The News. It's really terrifying."

Kudrow said "I liked The Apprentice. So I'll try the new show."

Not sure if she was actually sticking up for Trump or what. The audience, Winkleman, and the other guests didn't react either way. Pretty cool. CC, JSM; 4/15/26, 1:37 PM
Achilles said...: john mosby said...

Achilles, on the other hand, BBC News last night had an investigative piece about a children’s clinic in Pakistan that was breaking all the rules about reusing needles and other protective measures. So maybe some regulation is a good thing. Or maybe it’s just North European culture, which would operate about the same with or without government rules. CC, JSM

Agree.

But the people who regulate the industry should invariably be forced to have actual experience in the industry and the regulatory bodies need to be transparent and responsive.

This of course invites regulatory and capture corruption.

The key to solving that is executing corrupt people.; 4/15/26, 1:41 PM
Achilles said...: what is memory? do humans hallucinate?

One thing people will need to get used to is their sense of time. A week is more like several hours. I think they are measuring it in engineer FTEs.

what does agi hallucination look like:

State: stabilized, HYD-2 running

What just happened

1. Corruption diagnosed: SQLite DB had B-tree damage (4 multi-referenced pages, rowids out of order,
17 orphan pages). Root cause was RAM unbounded growth — 2125 rows of agent state/progress with no TTL
or retire-cleanup.
2. Recovery executed:
- Backed up corrupt DB (eli-kernel.db.corrupt-2026-04-15-1847, 131 MB)
- Row-by-row recovery with per-row error skip: 1,232,751 rows copied, 8 skipped (7 ram + 1
tool_calls)
- projects table blew up entirely — salvaged via per-column rowid reads. Lost ELI's
completion_chain audit field (set to NULL); ELI1's chain preserved
- RAM evicted: 2125 → 255 (deleted 1870 entries older than 24h)
- VACUUM'd
- Integrity check: ok
3. Kernel restarted with recovered DB:
CoreCache boot hydration complete
firmware=10 ikb=472 ram=255 cards=11 projects=2
3. First successful hydration in weeks. MCP cache reads now return real data (get_active_cards
returns all 10, not empty list).
4. HYD-2 spawned: agent 889, sonnet, on item 1005.; 4/15/26, 2:04 PM
Achilles said...: At 51 minutes you are watching men in flip flops use large rocks and front loaders to move an axel under the broken front loader.

The giant rock and the wires hooked to a bucket to lift the axel when all you need are a couple of hydraulic jacks on a cement slab just makes the whole event simultaneously impressive and laughable.; 4/15/26, 3:02 PM
Howard said...: I'm with you 100%. Aggie. While US health and safety is due partly to OSHA, a big part of it is just the common sense of the American Blue collar worker coupled with wealth and infrastructure of our country.; 4/15/26, 3:10 PM
Howard said...: Achilles just reminded me of my trip to Kailua Kona, Hawaii. After I graduated from high school. Summer of '78. My brother's roommate was clearing a field for property development and his janky bulldozer threw a track. He was able to to pick it up off the ground a bit when the front end loader while I rolled giant lava rocks underneath it. Then he had me crawl under the try and help lever the track back on. Never did get it fixed and my brother told me to stop working for that guy because he's afraid he'd get me killed and then my mom would never forgive him. Good times!; 4/15/26, 3:14 PM
Howard said...: The cool thing about human memory is that they are apparently all tied to the maps we have of the world and are linked to when the memory got laid down to the location we were in. Apparently these maps are so detailed that a lot of times as we're driving around in our cars, we're not actually seeing what's going on in the moment. We are seeing a combination of what is out there and what is inside. Our head has memory.

This is why I think we need to start training AI on sensory information rather than just language.; 4/15/26, 3:17 PM
imTay said...: It seems the Saudis can no longer afford to support LIV Golf for some reason. I missed some of those great players, looks like they might be coming home.; 4/15/26, 4:14 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: Well lookee here. The Republican house just passed Temporary Protected Status for Haiti for three more years.
And who's leading the pack? Why Globalist/Zionist
Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE). And Mr. Amnesty himself Mike Lawler (R-NY).

I think Bacon tweeted out that "Christ was King" was "antisemitic". Probably because after he retires he'll have a lucrative lobbying job with AIPAC.; 4/15/26, 4:20 PM
Hey Skipper said...: RCO: Well lookee here. The Republican house just passed Temporary Protected Status for Haiti for three more years.

Didn't happen. Get your facts straight. For once.; 4/15/26, 4:32 PM
Jay Vogt said...: I just got back from bicycling over to the post office to mail off my checks (it's a tradition of mine), and this was the first time in a long time there was any kind of a line to get those envelopes post-marked today. Ya never can tell?

On the weather front, after a winter of no-snow in the Idaho rockies and the related early closing off all ski areas, we're finally getting a couple of blizzards. Ya never can tell?; 4/15/26, 4:42 PM
Achilles said...: So an "agent" is actually just a wrapper for a set of tool calls.

When a prompt from a human goes to the LLM endpoint the LLM determines an "End State" and the it sends back a response to your driver with the next tool call.

In this case I am updating the edges on my memory tree nodes with an updated interface. related, build-before, precedes etc. there are 8 links and 4 reverse links. The previous set of 9 tree node edges was insufficient. There were about 150 tool calls across 3 "agents." One particular set(I took out the live paths on my computer the regex looks cool but...):

Read
/home,,,.md
Bash
{"command":"grep -n \"^\\- \\[\" /home/,,,/MINI-RAT-1-V4C-CVM-OBSERVATORY.md"}
Edit
/home,,,.md
Read
/home/....md
Edit
',,,'
Bash
{"command":",,,"}

The first Edit failed because the LLM forgot the driver didn't have the file opened and saved. This is a common pattern and I am writing a new set of Read, Grep, Edit tools to avoid this.

Where it is interesting for discussion here.

You click refresh on this discussion: Open:

You scroll down the comments: Grep

You read some filter others: Read

You click on that little box at the bottom: Edit/Write

Click PUBLISH: Bash

How are you different from AGI?; 4/15/26, 4:59 PM
john mosby said...: Howard, ref memory and location - I run to the gym while listening to podcasts etc. With urban terrain blocking the signal and the delay to get on the gym WiFi, I wind up having to rewind, and of course go past stuff I already heard once. When I hear that part of the podcast or song again, I automatically visualize the place I was when I heard it the first time. Don’t know what that means, but it’s interesting. CC, JSM; 4/15/26, 5:15 PM
Hassayamper said...: I consider the skillful, facile use of grep/regex to be one of the main markers for someone with real computer skills that go well beyond making a pivot-table Excel spreadsheet.

Serious scripting of bash or one of the other *nix shells is another. I never really mastered that.

Third would be programming in plain old C at a level somewhat less than a true guru, but high enough that pointers, casts, structures/unions, preprocessor commands, standard libraries, robust dynamic memory management, and cleanly handled recursion are not intimidating.

I'm a long, long way from recalling that stuff, but having started with batched FORTRAN jobs on paper punch cards, I know expertise when I see it.; 4/15/26, 5:33 PM
Hassayamper said...: Jimmy Carr is growing on me. For all his potty-mouthed vulgarity and the usual British disdain for Trump, he is a man with a surprisingly conservative and sensible world view. It slips out in his show when he drops the act and gets serious every now and then. The 3-piece suit is not just a costume for him. I think he'd wear it if he were in another line of work altogether. And he can be hilariously funny, just a master at working the crowd and improvising. I intend to see him next time he's on tour near me.; 4/15/26, 5:39 PM
Peachy said...: This is for Inga; 4/15/26, 5:50 PM
rehajm said...: Carr is good on the cats countdown show. He talked too much on Rogan and let spill he sees ‘climate change’ as man’s biggest threat and had insults for anyone who didn’t. Must be an Oxford man…; 4/15/26, 5:51 PM
Achilles said...: Hassayamper said...

I consider the skillful, facile use of grep/regex to be one of the main markers for someone with real computer skills that go well beyond making a pivot-table Excel spreadsheet.

I use grep ps bash etc but I have to look them up usually when I do. It isn't muscle memory. I remember the git commands and don't really need to look them up. I write some python scripts. At least I used to. So I understand the language and can follow along.

But it is like listening to people speaking spanish after taking 2 years of high school spanish class. You catch the words and you know where the conversation is going. You think everyone is talking really fast but they really aren't.; 4/15/26, 6:21 PM
TickTock1948 said...: Also started with "FORTRAN jobs on paper punch cards". Went into law rather than software, but part of me is always drawn to software engineering. Which is why i am currently running claude code pissed that it has was throttled in March, and trying to come up to speed - with help - with an environment that is unrecognizable from when the legal software company I founded shipped .exe files. But mostly having fun, as is every SWE engineer I know. Heard more than once the phrase I haven't had this much fun programming since I was in college.; 4/15/26, 6:24 PM
Saint Croix said...: Supreme Court 7-2 ruling delivers a massive blow to mail-in ballot loopholes!

I'll bet I know who the two are.

Some people do not have a jurisprudence!; 4/15/26, 7:01 PM
Iman said...: Got a rocket in my pocket
Finger in the socket

https://youtu.be/IUY_9_zP64w; 4/15/26, 7:02 PM
Howard said...: John: my daughter got me this book several Christmas' ago. It's The general science behind the concept of the mind Palace.
Brainscapes: The Warped, Wondrous Maps Written in Your Brain—and How They Guide You by Rebecca Schwarzlose is the primary book detailing how the brain constructs spatial, sensory, and functional maps to store memories and perceive the world. It explains that these maps are not rigid, but shifting, allowing the brain to organize experiences and memories based on spatial relationships and bodily perspective.
Amazon.com
Amazon.com
+1; 4/15/26, 7:12 PM
Jamie said...: The cool thing about human memory is that they are apparently all tied to the maps we have of the world and are linked to when the memory got laid down to the location we were in.

I was an Air Force brat, moving every 2-3 years in my childhood and youth. I never understood how other people remembered things about their lives, because all my memories were tied to where we lived when events happened. If you lived in the same house all those years, like my husband, how would you remember, for instance, how old you were when something happened?; 4/15/26, 7:16 PM
Original Mike said...: "Supreme Court 7-2 ruling delivers a massive blow to mail-in ballot loopholes!"

What are you talking about?; 4/15/26, 7:35 PM
narciso said...: Supreme Court Prepares to Change Mail-In Voting Rules - Irish Rover https://share.google/KMQ4ZT302dizKZWLa; 4/15/26, 8:05 PM
Original Mike said...: "The Office of the Director of National Intelligence sent criminal referrals to the Justice Department for the whistleblower whose complaint helped trigger President Donald Trump’s 2019 impeachment and for the former intelligence community inspector general who notified Congress of the allegations, Fox News Digital has learned."

Good. I only wish this had a chance of amounting to something.; 4/15/26, 8:09 PM
Original Mike said...: Thanks, narciso.
Not exactly a decision. More like someone's wishful thinking.; 4/15/26, 8:11 PM
narciso said...: The fainting couches suggest yes; 4/15/26, 8:16 PM
Mason G said...: "Supreme Court Prepares to Change Mail-In Voting Rules - Irish Rover"

From the link:

Junior J.C. Cruz opposed attempts to abrogate mail-in voting, stating, “A large portion of the voter base is young, college voters. The past campaigns of Biden and Harris were mainly composed of young, college-educated people. If you reduce the ability of college students to participate in an election, it could sway the voting outcomes in elections.”

College-educated people are unable to understand that mailing things is not an instantaneous process and dropping a ballot in a mailbox doesn't immediately beam it up to the mothership for counting?

Well, I suppose I can see the problem for studies majors...; 4/15/26, 8:23 PM
Mason G said...: "If you reduce the ability of college students to participate in an election, it could sway the voting outcomes in elections.”

On the other hand, if you increase the ability of political parties to cheat in an election, it could also sway the voting outcomes in elections.; 4/15/26, 8:25 PM
Hey Skipper said...: Jamie: I was an Air Force brat, moving every 2-3 years in my childhood and youth. I never understood how other people remembered things about their lives, because all my memories were tied to where we lived when events happened. If you lived in the same house all those years, like my husband, how would you remember, for instance, how old you were when something happened?

My best friend ever since high school — we are now in our 70's — has lived entirely in South Bay LA. I'm not a military brat, but I did do 20 years in the AF, then another 20 as an airline pilot.

Consequently, I have lived in many places, each of them being a life-chapter.

No way of knowing, of course, but those chapters likely put a lot of memory distance between back then and now, compared to someone with nothing in particular to separate the two.; 4/15/26, 9:09 PM
DINKY DAU 45 said...: While your cleaning up, couple ore to go...Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, Cory mills, the insane perp... keep moving lease//; 4/15/26, 9:25 PM
DINKY DAU 45 said...: The Trump administration is set to begin accepting claims for tariff refunds starting April 20, returning billions of dollars collected under levies later ruled unlawful by the U.S. Supreme Court. I am checking to see if we are also getting the promised $2000. DOGE rebate,our $2,000. tariff rebate and the GREAT HEALTHCARE $2000. rebate. Nobody answers the phone when we call? Maybe in another "two weeks"?; 4/15/26, 9:33 PM
James K said...: "Supreme Court 7-2 ruling delivers a massive blow to mail-in ballot loopholes!"

Hardly massive. It only would prevent counting the late ballots. It does nothing about mail-in voting itself. The cheaters will just have to get all the fake votes in by the deadline.; 4/16/26, 7:32 AM
Leland said...: I only wish this had a chance of amounting to something.

Me Too.; 4/16/26, 7:44 AM
Saint Croix said...: The case is Watson v. Republican National Committee

They've already had the oral argument. My assumption was that somebody has leaked the vote results.; 4/16/26, 8:25 AM
Rustygrommet said...: Achilles @ 12:53
You're reading way too much into it. If somebody built it somebody else can fix it. Just keep track of the order that you took it apart.
What's the most difficult thing you ever fixed?; 4/16/26, 8:59 AM
Hassayamper said...: Hardly massive. It only would prevent counting the late ballots. It does nothing about mail-in voting itself. The cheaters will just have to get all the fake votes in by the deadline.

Don't be so dismissive. That is in fact a qualitative rather than quantitative difference when it comes to preventing ballot-stuffing after the polls have closed. You can inject a lot more Chinese-printed forged ballots in 7 days than you can in 7 hours.

There are of course a number of other ways to commit vote fraud upstream of the ballot box, but this is a big one that the Democrat enemy criminal scum have been taking maximal advantage of.; 4/16/26, 1:02 PM
Bruce Hayden said...: "Supreme Court 7-2 ruling delivers a massive blow to mail-in ballot loopholes!"

“Hardly massive. It only would prevent counting the late ballots. It does nothing about mail-in voting itself. The cheaters will just have to get all the fake votes in by the deadline.”

See Hassayamper just above.

The other thing is that candidates now have Standing to sue for election fraud. After the 2020 elections, hundreds of lawsuits were filed. And almost all were dismissed for lack of Standing. Sure, the public was harmed by te massive election fraud, but it was particularized. Thus, no Standing to sue in federal court to force the state actors to conform to their state election laws.; 4/16/26, 9:14 PM
Bruce Hayden said...: “Sure, the public was harmed by the massive election fraud, but it was NOT particularized.“; 4/16/26, 9:16 PM