Some sort of satellite constellation to bring Internet online for the masses.
Ask HN: What would you work on without internet access?
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#22Cartography: get the osm rendering stack on your laptop and a bit of data, then map away! Programming: get the documentation first, manuals API reference, tutorials, and use a language that doesn't have much "now install this library" dependencies.
Qgis is a good, f/oss desktop gis system.
Re: Ask HN: What would you work on without internet access?
#23Cartography: get the osm rendering stack on your laptop and a bit of data, then map away! Programming: get the documentation first, manuals API reference, tutorials, and use a language that doesn't have much "now install this library" dependencies.
> get the documentation first, manuals API reference DevDocs[0] (offline collection of API docs) is perfect for this. [0]: https://devdocs.io/
I travelled to China recently and was unpleasantly surprised to find the HTML/CSS/DOM docs totally unusable offline, even though I “downloaded” them in my user preferences before leaving.
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#24godoc, git and Google Cloud AppEngine SDK all works offline. That's all I need.
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#25There’s a whole bunch of pen-and-paper mathematics i need to relearn.
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#26Check out kiwix or zeal. Allows reading entire archives of wikipedia/stackoverflow/ted talks etc etc offline. Plus search. Throw in elasticsearch and you get really powerful customizable search. You can also create your own archive of web content. Given the size of modern harddrives people have no idea how much quality content can happily live on your local machine. No internet required.
TIL entire wikipedia is less than 100 GB when compressed.
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#27Writing project documentation.
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#28Anything that can be run in a VM with port forwarding. If Docker can be run without a connection, that's another option as well.
Re: Ask HN: What would you work on without internet access?
#29Check out kiwix or zeal. Allows reading entire archives of wikipedia/stackoverflow/ted talks etc etc offline. Plus search. Throw in elasticsearch and you get really powerful customizable search. You can also create your own archive of web content. Given the size of modern harddrives people have no idea how much quality content can happily live on your local machine. No internet required.
TIL entire wikipedia is less than 100 GB when compressed.
That's with no images, and iirc it also didn't include any of the math markup last time I looked at one of the xml dumps in one of the loaders (think it was kiwix)
Re: Ask HN: What would you work on without internet access?
#30Check out kiwix or zeal. Allows reading entire archives of wikipedia/stackoverflow/ted talks etc etc offline. Plus search. Throw in elasticsearch and you get really powerful customizable search. You can also create your own archive of web content. Given the size of modern harddrives people have no idea how much quality content can happily live on your local machine. No internet required.
TIL entire wikipedia is less than 100 GB when compressed.
You can find versions that are 50GB if you dig around the kiwix download page! The entire stackoverflow dump is around the same size.