What is the weirdest PDF you have in your downloads?
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(1984) Reflections of Trusting Trust by Ken Thompson
It's a really short PDF, but it's not as technical as it seems.
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My mom's death certificate. That's weird.
RIP. This is up there with the arrest warrant
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Acute toxins fact sheet, guide to identifying snipe flies, several issues of Computer Gaming World from 1987, and 2 separate copies of the schematics for a Kenmore 148-1937.1 sewing machine.
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Hmm, it probably depends what you think is weird, but I have one in their on the feasibility of extracting ammonia from biomass. There's also one on early steam turbines by a fellow named Geoff Horseman, which is a fun name.
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Hmm, it probably depends what you think is weird, but I have one in their on the feasibility of extracting ammonia from biomass. There's also one on early steam turbines by a fellow named Geoff Horseman, which is a fun name.
Ok, the second one is definitely a wierd(ly specific) PDF and I dig it!
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What the fuck, Bahamas? Life imprisonment?
Well, if they went for the death penalty it'd be obviously ironic.
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I find this segment to be particularly insightful:
I think this is relevant: https://news.cs.washington.edu/2013/08/14/chicken-chicken-chicken-chicken-chicken/
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Ok, the second one is definitely a wierd(ly specific) PDF and I dig it!
It's a beast too - 202 pages. From the part I read, I could probably make one that kind works, but that's it. Unfortunately the author didn't go into the details I was hoping for, like why exactly steam turbine airfoils are hook-shaped. One neat thing is that they have a nice little formula for comparing totally different turbines over time to show how they gradually do more with less.
The ammonia paper is weird because it's a super impractical and difficult idea - normally you fix nitrogen in a big Haber-Bosch plant and turn it into biomass. Both came up because they're applicable to primitive tech stuff.
I have more and probably weirder, but things I care about tend to be moved out of the download folder.
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260 pages!??
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Hmm, it probably depends what you think is weird, but I have one in their on the feasibility of extracting ammonia from biomass. There's also one on early steam turbines by a fellow named Geoff Horseman, which is a fun name.
You got your dating photos critiqued? And it exists as a paid service?? You fascinate me Sir.
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It's a beast too - 202 pages. From the part I read, I could probably make one that kind works, but that's it. Unfortunately the author didn't go into the details I was hoping for, like why exactly steam turbine airfoils are hook-shaped. One neat thing is that they have a nice little formula for comparing totally different turbines over time to show how they gradually do more with less.
The ammonia paper is weird because it's a super impractical and difficult idea - normally you fix nitrogen in a big Haber-Bosch plant and turn it into biomass. Both came up because they're applicable to primitive tech stuff.
I have more and probably weirder, but things I care about tend to be moved out of the download folder.
I can definitely relate. I have several PDFs of advanced textbooks from when I wanted to learn some very niche skill. The latest one is an economics textbook from when I wanted to learn about different types of auctions and the maths/game theory behind each.
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A copy of Man after Man:
This is such a weird book. It has leech people, underwater people, blind psychic baby people, meat mountain people, etc.Kenshi mentioned!
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Well, if they went for the death penalty it'd be obviously ironic.
Historically, I have a vague memory of knowing the fact that some places did actually do that, although I should check.
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It's a speculative evolution book from 1990 about how mankind might evolve in the next 5 million years. Basically the premise is that due to climate change, new species of humans are engineered to survive in a more hostile world. And then it follows these new species and their further evolutions.
The creatures in the picture above are both descended from humans.
It's weird, bleak and very far fetched.:::spoiler A small gallery of the various species:
:::Question about the years if someone knows: is "years hence" a fancy british way of saying "years in the future" or is it some antiquated large non-SI unit of time since I find any of the species described in shorter timeframes, the Vacuumorph beimg an egregious example ("200 years hence") very hard to imagine "evolving" only 200 years in the future, even with the 90s outlook on technology (since it seems they said these earlier examples at least are engineered species in the book).
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Question about the years if someone knows: is "years hence" a fancy british way of saying "years in the future" or is it some antiquated large non-SI unit of time since I find any of the species described in shorter timeframes, the Vacuumorph beimg an egregious example ("200 years hence") very hard to imagine "evolving" only 200 years in the future, even with the 90s outlook on technology (since it seems they said these earlier examples at least are engineered species in the book).
I wouldn't know about the hence part, but I always read it as "years from now".
As for the other thing, it started out with deliberately engineered beings for specific tasks like the vacuumorph.
About a hundred years later the remaining people would create new humans with the specific goal of being able to survive the harsher environment of a ravaged earth. It was these that evolved further into different creatures.
It's a pretty far fetched story either way, I just like it for the weird pictures
I posted a link in one of the other replies. You can read the whole thing there if you're interested, there's a timeline on page 20 if you just want a quick overview. -
You got your dating photos critiqued? And it exists as a paid service?? You fascinate me Sir.
Yeah, it came with ghostwriting for the text section.
Man, I have no idea what people are looking for from dating profiles, and what I got back from the seasoned pros just reinforces that. Left to my own devices, I went terse and impartial. What they wrote is cheesy and boastful to me, but I guess comes across as confidence to others. Which, I guess, just means it's money well spent, because I was directly told my thing felt like I wasn't serious.
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I can definitely relate. I have several PDFs of advanced textbooks from when I wanted to learn some very niche skill. The latest one is an economics textbook from when I wanted to learn about different types of auctions and the maths/game theory behind each.
Oh hell yeah. As originally a maths person, the Vickrey-GSP-VCG continuum is satisfying as hell. Have you looked into fair cake cutting algorithms as well?
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Historically, I have a vague memory of knowing the fact that some places did actually do that, although I should check.
Germanic-sphere countries historically liked to kill people for stealing bread, so I guess it's not too disproportional. You have to think the person going "yes please" would make the whole lynchmob atmosphere hard to keep going, though.
Do share if you find it, I've mostly turned up works by critics with a quick search.
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Ooh! Link? ^^
I cannot find the actual file I was talking about, but I did find my WEG Death Star Technical Manual. I am still trying to find the laptop that has the technical readouts of the Death Star.
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