He said, you can already see the opening hours of all the stores and stuff on Google Maps.
I said, no, not a website like that. I mean, the website itself is open 9 to 5 Monday through Friday, and outside of that it’s closed.
My friend looked at me and just said, why?
Idk, I think it would be neat, I said.
My friend didn’t get it. This guy gets it.
Example: the government e-tax service's operating hours schedule
https://www.e-tax.nta.go.jp/info_center/index.htm
There is a full week of maintenance this month, and it's unavailable after midnight on Mondays and Sundays until 8:30am.
https://dafyddvaughan.uk/blog/2025/why-some-dvla-digital-ser...
So you want people to read your blog at work because when they are off it's closed?
They laughed at Einstein, but they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
We are already killing the deterministic part with LLMs. I can't trust the machine anymore to do tomorrow what I told it yesterday.
Now we also want to remove the always-on aspect? Arbitrarily? Because it's ...cool? I don't get it.
I don't see it as harmful, but it's not for me either. My personal stuff goes down when my DDNS script fails or I accidentally trip the breaker, that's enough.
The computer was the perfect anti-human! Alas, they keep making it more feminine to appeal to the normies.
When you visit my website a notification pops up on my phone and I have to set HTTP response manually.
It's also audio-only, because if you called me on the phone you wouldn't see any UI, would you?