What is the weirdest PDF you have in your downloads?

[rebekahwsd@lemmy.world]

Boringly, the only thing in there currently is the guide from the dmv (mvc, sorry) for nj to review cause I'm feeling old and need a refresher.

[telemaphone@beehaw.org]

My mom's death certificate. That's weird.

[hipstertenzero@dormi.zone]

Some days i feel like the engineered food creature.

[nauticalnoodle@lemmy.ml]

I think if i dig through my records I can find a federal subpoena from 2016. A LEO had to formally come to my door to confirm I received it but the prosecutor sent it to me via email.

[tetris11@lemmy.ml]

I have a key to tree identification in winter. It's surprisingly useful

[tetris11@lemmy.ml]

(1984) Reflections of Trusting Trust by Ken Thompson

It's a really short PDF, but it's not as technical as it seems.

[subarctictundra@lemmy.ml]

RIP. This is up there with the arrest warrant

[culturedlout@lemmy.ca]

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.

[canadaplus@lemmy.sdf.org]

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.

[subarctictundra@lemmy.ml]

Ok, the second one is definitely a wierd(ly specific) PDF and I dig it!

[canadaplus@lemmy.sdf.org]

Well, if they went for the death penalty it'd be obviously ironic.

[lemoinefairclough@sh.itjust.works]

I think this is relevant: https://news.cs.washington.edu/2013/08/14/chicken-chicken-chicken-chicken-chicken/

[canadaplus@lemmy.sdf.org]

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.

[ultragigagigantic@lemmy.ml]

The multi orgasmic man

[quitequickqum@lemmy.world]

260 pages!??

[subarctictundra@lemmy.ml]

You got your dating photos critiqued? And it exists as a paid service?? You fascinate me Sir.

[subarctictundra@lemmy.ml]

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.

[nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de]

Kenshi mentioned!

[unwarlikeextortion@lemmy.ml]

Historically, I have a vague memory of knowing the fact that some places did actually do that, although I should check.

[unwarlikeextortion@lemmy.ml]

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).