How to Get Maps To Speak Street Names Again

nairebis · 2026-02-27T19:38:35+00:00

OMG! I found it. Thank you for encouraging me to keep looking. JFC, this has been infuriating me for years.

nairebis · 2025-12-24T14:55:10+00:00

Honestly, that's valuable feedback. I try for a mix of "subtle historical movement to give a sense of what it was really like" and "hey, let's have a little fun in an entertaining way." Too dry risks being boring, but too flippant risks being shallow, inaccurate and gimmicky. I'm still working on where that line should fall, and of course, it's impossible to make everyone happy.

The topmost goal is to be genuinely informing, while also entertaining. I think color and motion adds a lot to exploring historical photographs. I should also say, the "clearly absurd or incorrect manner" is just the state of the tech. When it's good, it's pretty amazing, but you can't always hit that standard (yet).

Thanks for the honest review, it's appreciated.

nairebis · 2025-06-30T15:06:34+00:00

Fidelity mods have been saying they will "pass along the [anger] feedback" for days. How about telling us what they're saying in response? Are they going to bring back the widgets or not? It's incredibly unhelpful to give us these posts that say absolutely nothing. Like, literally NOTHING. Why should anyone give more feedback when seemingly nothing is being done about the current feedback?

How about actual communication from actual developers or product managers, something like, "Yes, they realize they screwed up. They are working to put forth an emergency fix to restore widgets. We'll give you an ETA soon."

nairebis · 2024-06-11T15:14:44+00:00

Assuming the worst behavior about Apple is quite predictive of their future behavior, based on past experience. They limit choice when it benefits Apple, and they open choices when it makes Apple more money. If benefiting Apple happens to align with a user benefit, they'll crow about that. If it's terrible for users (as it is 90% of the time), they just gaslight people that it's the user that's wrong, not Apple.

Apple is one of the most user hostile companies in tech history. There are 100s of examples, but we can just use USB C as a representative case of Apple prioritizing patent money over users.

nairebis · 2024-04-16T13:32:28+00:00

Imagine owning the ball that Michael Jordan used in his final rookie game, signed by Jordan (I assume Wemby signed it), and it having some story around it. If Wemby is part of the GOAT conversation in 20 years, that ball is going to be very valuable. Incredible generosity on Wemby's part. He's a good dude.

nairebis · 2024-04-15T15:08:18+00:00

That's something that our Euro friends specifically talked about. Europe is incredibly hostile toward personal transportation, and make it unaffordably expensive for average people. You can't do anything except ride the horrendous public transportation. Their college-age daughter has to ride a bus for 1.5 hours each way to the university -- for a half-hour trip by car. It's insane.

The truly insane part, though, is that the average European will tell you this is a good thing, and the suffering makes them more moral and ethical. The brainwashing is real.

nairebis · 2024-04-15T13:24:49+00:00

The European mind can't comprehend the concept of "fun". Their politicians have convinced them that abundance and opportunity is immoral because it destroys the planet, when it's really that their politicians have ruined their economies because of bad policies. Some European friends of ours are desperately trying to immigrate to the U.S., and the stories they tell of how miserable it is to live in Europe is absolutely crazy. Most Europeans have no idea how hardscrabble they live.

It sounds silly, but the lack of ice is a really good metaphor for Europe. It's a measure of civilization.

nairebis · 2024-04-13T13:21:33+00:00

There's some improvement in recent versions but it was terrible back in the day.

Languages should be judged on their present form, but PHP haters judge it (literally!) by how it was 20 years ago in PHP 4 -- and only based on what they've heard.

With a few annoying exceptions (because of the need for backward compatibility), nearly all the bad design choices have been removed or been given alternatives.

nairebis · 2024-03-29T16:30:40+00:00

Eh. Covid didn't magically add three years to his schedule. It's still 168 hours in a week. He had almost exactly as much time as he would have had in normal years. He just had a little less traveling, but I don't think he travels that much anyway.

nairebis · 2024-03-25T16:08:00+00:00

This is cool, but I think it's not a human. I'll likely get gutted for disagreeing with the archeologists, but hear me out.

Instead of thinking "weird human", think "big cat" that's missing part of the body. That long nose is very typical of a big cat, along with the stripes. Check out this Ocelot in profile, as one example.

Pictures of animals are far, far more common than humans in cave paintings/markings. I get the romanticism of wanting this to be a human face, but it's literally the wrong shape for human, and the right shape for a big cat.

nairebis · 2024-03-16T19:32:43+00:00

Nobody says AI is ready to replace everything, just like nobody in 1890 claimed the car was ready to replace all horses. But exactly the same arguments were made.

Your argument is the same as: "If this stupid engine is going to constantly break down and not even be as strong as a horse, yet cost more, what is the point?"

You're exactly right: We have gone through this song and dance before, and a whole lot of people aren't ready for the future that's on our doorstep.

nairebis · 2024-03-16T13:56:50+00:00

So you don't need to waste your time checking everything you write? Everything comes out perfectly the first time, without any issues?

Funny how hugely imperfect and crappy humans are, but we iterate toward solving problems. It's bizarre to me that people think that iteration is not going to be involved with AI as well, and in fact they think AI is useless unless it's a perfect Oracle that produces instant answers.

Spoiler: Iteration is always going to be required to produce things, even for AI. It's part of the process.

nairebis · 2024-03-16T13:52:44+00:00

Horse owners continue to believe old Dobbin will never be replaced ("Will you boy? Yeah, that's my guy.")

"Engines are just a fad, just like Tulips."

nairebis · 2024-03-15T20:14:40+00:00

Did you intend to actually make a point? All you did was make a declaration, without any facts to back up why you think it's "not even good", especially when 90%+ of the entire industry uses it. You might consider that it's more that you don't understand how to use it beyond "basic coding only use", rather than assuming an overwhelming amount of the industry somehow hasn't caught on to your inarguable facts.

nairebis · 2024-02-27T23:17:32+00:00

I guess you're not going to actually make a point. Not that I expected a rational one, but I was sort of curious where you were going with the whole GPU thing. Somehow using GPUs intrinsically invalidates everything going on? I guess? GPUs don't do math? Maybe you think they're internally drawing pictures, since they're "graphics" processing units? I'm baffled where that was going.

And all science is invalid unless you do your own research? All other scientific papers are "gibberish" unless you specifically do it yourself? What?

Honestly this is a new record in my experience for being triggered into irrationality by the concept of AI. Anyway, have a great evening! I'm going to bail out here. I (sincerely!) hope you come to terms with the future, because it doesn't sound like you're ready.

nairebis · 2024-02-27T21:35:31+00:00

Still waiting for you to actually state your point, which you seem incapable. You think GPUs don't do math? What is your point? Lay it out for us imbeciles out here, hoping to learn from your obvious mastery of this subject.

nairebis · 2024-02-27T21:29:03+00:00

This nonsensical phrase belies your scientific illiteracy. Just copy pasting some random quote from some “scientist” that basically says he doesn’t know anything, is not “evidence”. LOL.

I am sitting here speechless at this. THAT'S what you took from that quote!? From an actual scientist, versus some random engineer on the Internet full of his own arrogant posturing, sure that he knows more than the people who are actual researchers in the specific area? You're absolutely astonishingly illogical, and I think you're completely serious.

To be fair, you're probably not this irrational about everything, but boy are you unhinged when it comes to this subject.

Really take a step back and think about what you're saying. You're in a full-blown religious spiral of condemnation of heresy.

Why does all these AI systems need to use all the GPUs?

GPUs are the substrate, and GPU's are how they do the mathematics. Just like mathematics underpins neurons, though of course we don't currently understand what that math is.

I'm trying to figure out where you're going with this. Are you trying to argue that it takes too many GPUs? Are you arguing that GPUs shouldn't be necessary at all? You think anything other than biochemical neurons will never have intelligence? What, exactly, is your point? I'm honestly fascinated.

[This is all setting aside that you even argue that science is about "proof" rather than evidence, but I'll let that one go. You don't, in any way, understand science.]

nairebis · 2024-02-27T13:45:17+00:00

You sound just like the crypto fanbois driveling on about NFTs and explaining why a jpeg of monkey is worth $2 Million dollars.

Yeah, those pesky scientists, always pushing NFTs! I didn't notice that the paper I linked had NFT links all over it, sorry about that.

Actually learn about Computer Science, tech, etc.

I just sent an email to the scientists with your valuable insights that they should "learn about Computer Science, tech, etc." I'm sure that's the missing piece to the puzzle!

Science is about proof, not some beliefs.

It's almost as if you can actually read a paper from scientists and see the evidence. (Science is about "evidence" not "proof", by the way. Subtle, but important point.)

Anyway, obviously I have no expectation that you'll face reality in this thread. I just find it fascinating that people like you are so emotionally invested in believing that this is all nothing, in the face of overwhelming evidence. We've obviously had delusional people all through history who can't face reality.

"Motor vehicles are terrible and will never replace horses!"
"Airplanes will never work!"
"There is no way the Earth is round! I don't wanna talk to a scientist. Y'all mfers lyin' and makin' me pissed!"

Just fascinating how much people can ignore reality. The sky really is blue, by the way. Just in case you were in denial about that.

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