There’s a whole bunch of pen-and-paper mathematics i need to relearn.
I like to write maths tutorials. Anything in particular you're interested in?
Ask HN: What would you work on without internet access?
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Re: Ask HN: What would you work on without internet access?
#42I have been using Go recently, and I do almost all my development with it offline. The docs are included and you can run a local doc server so everything you need to look up is as close as localhost:6060. It's also an ecosystem that encourages building on the standard library, unlike some other popular languages I could mention. I absolutely love the productivity and focus that this setup allows. I also have a ~/rese…
I've been enjoying working on Rust code for the same reasons: Rust can, for every library you have in a project, generate static HTML documentation for all of them. The only part you need Internet for is downloading the dependencies, but that needs only be done once.
Re: Ask HN: What would you work on without internet access?
#43I download online course videos to my mobile phone and watch them when internet is not available.
I think the major problem for working on side project is you can’t access to the API reference when you don’t have the access to the internet.
Re: Ask HN: What would you work on without internet access?
#44Stallman downloads all his links and emails once every 24 hours and then process them. Might be worth considering doing something similar with tech blogs or what you follow.
However what side projects you could work on really depends on what you are interested in. I would imagine that anything you could work on on a single laptop would qualify.
Re: Ask HN: What would you work on without internet access?
#45Check 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.
Sadly, with a 128GB MacBook Pro, this doesn't really apply to me without bringing around an external drive.
Re: Ask HN: What would you work on without internet access?
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
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)
Totally forgot about images. I just dug little further and found this: "The size of the media files in Wikimedia Commons, which includes the images, videos and other media used across all the language-specific Wikipedias was described as well over 23 TB near the end of 2014" Considering 30 TB hdd costs around 1500$, still interesting.
If you grab those WD Easystore 8tb drives when they're on sale you can have 32tb for around $560
Re: Ask HN: What would you work on without internet access?
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's with no images, and iirc it also didn't include any of the math markup last time I looked at one of the xml dumps in one of the loaders (think it was kiwix)
Totally forgot about images. I just dug little further and found this: "The size of the media files in Wikimedia Commons, which includes the images, videos and other media used across all the language-specific Wikipedias was described as well over 23 TB near the end of 2014" Considering 30 TB hdd costs around 1500$, still interesting.
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Re: Ask HN: What would you work on without internet access?
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
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)
Totally forgot about images. I just dug little further and found this: "The size of the media files in Wikimedia Commons, which includes the images, videos and other media used across all the language-specific Wikipedias was described as well over 23 TB near the end of 2014" Considering 30 TB hdd costs around 1500$, still interesting.
I wonder what the size is as of this moment, maybe double?
I read somewhere recently that 90% of the content on the Web was created in the last 2 years. Not sure if thats "special media" focused, i.e. video & pictures, as opposed to text. But I'm sure the size of the dump has increased substantially in the last 4 years.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is this mac only?
Zeal is a good offline code docset reader for linux and windows (but not mac!) https://zealdocs.org/ The docsets come from Dash, which is very nice since that is payware. So here apple users pay for non-apple users it seems :)
Use Dash on mac, Zeal on NixOS.
I see it as a no-brainer for anyone who has more code to write than time to write it. I can't always solve a problem in Dash, but it enables me to work for hours at a time with wifi off. This is even more important for productivity when there is wifi available. Only downside that I know I'm reducing my chance of stumbling on Google Foobar trigger terms :)
Re: Ask HN: What would you work on without internet access?
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Totally forgot about images. I just dug little further and found this: "The size of the media files in Wikimedia Commons, which includes the images, videos and other media used across all the language-specific Wikipedias was described as well over 23 TB near the end of 2014" Considering 30 TB hdd costs around 1500$, still interesting.
If you grab those WD Easystore 8tb drives when they're on sale you can have 32tb for around $560
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