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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I just cleaned up my downloads so I no longer have it, but a couple weeks ago it was a copy of Maid: The Role-Playing Game
CIA sabotage handbook.
Should add the poor man's James bond. The anarchist cookbook. The army survival manual. There is an old army improvised munitions manual.
There are lots of fun reads that should probably be held onto.
Ooh could you link me to the above?
Mine is this report by the central bank where they tested the insurance sector at-large for resillience to financial shocks. ^(Although after reading some books by nassim nicholas taleb, I realize that testing using the worst imaginable shocks isn't sufficient as black swan events are by their nature unpredictable)
(1984) Reflections of Trusting Trust by Ken Thompson
It's a really short PDF and it's not as technical as it seems, but gives a good lesson on how programs evolve, and what exactly trust means in the software world
A mock dictionary of Portuguese gay slang and vocabulary. It's pretty fun.
Lol
Nothing too weird. Multiple manuals of objects that I own, probably the weirdest of which is a German manual for my Canon EOS 300 (I'm not German). And some machine learning papers, among which a paper from 1987, by Quinlan & Rivest, about decision trees (which is older than I am).
EDIT: Oh and another document older than me, a manual for the Minolta XG-9 that I'm lending from my dad.
I agree it feels weird to come across files that've been around for longer than you have.
The Airplane Flying Handbook, I guess.
Guidelines for a Space Propulsion Device Based on Heimβs Quantum Theory
I thought it sounded interesting, but the mathematics was beyond me.
The Chronicon of Marcellinus Comes, apparently. Not sure why.
Hercolobus Or Red Planet, by V. M. Rabolou... it's 'interesting'.
Itβs an interesting concept and seems plausible enough (same as with Planet X, Nemesis.. ok some of that Nibiru stuff is ridiculous) but like, the evidence just isnβt there to support it. Feels like we should have found SOME evidence for this kind of interstellar disaster by now. I donβt know, maybe Iβm wrong.
A very funny NGO report on "net-enabled anarchist extremists" that talks about the SRA like it's the PLA