/cyb/ - Cyberpunk Fiction and Fact

Environments are so messy in Cowboy Bebop and I think it's interesting that old people react to it with "omg this world feels so organic and lived in and natural" while younger people react with "jesus christ doesnt anyone clean in this universe? Why is everyone a fucking junkie? Christ some kid's playing the harmonica in a smoking room".

>>2147
Cowboy Bebop is the best thing Japan ever made.

>>2149
It is a good show.

>>2136
I get why small viruses aren't considered life but I just don't understand why giant viruses are considered nonliving while intracellular oblobigate bacteria like rickettsia are considered to be alive.

>>2157
It's not really a question of size, but functionality. Viruses have no capability to reproduce on their own, and no biologica funtions other than to stick to and infect host cells. They technically can't even move on their own. They don't move, breed, eat, breath or fuck: they're better described as objects than living things; plausibly the vestige of some bygone cell-signalling method gone horribly wrong.

>>2158
>Viruses have no capability to reproduce on their own, and no biologica funtions other than to stick to and infect host cells.
This is is also true of intracellular obligate bacteria.

>They don't move, breed, eat, breath or fuck: they're better described as objects than living things; plausibly the vestige of some bygone cell-signalling method gone horribly wrong.
Giant viruses have all the nessicary genes for metabolism.

>>2170
>have all the nessicary genes for metabolism.
What? What kinds of metabolic functions do they even have? Do they have any catabolic or anabolic activities?

>>2195
"schi-fi"? I don't understand the joke.

>>2196
The joke is that the board is full of schizos. Schizophrenia starts with /sch/.

>>2197
Nice joke!
"Storing explosions and taking them home to put them somewhere more useful" indeed. We can get hydrogen from places far less dangerous than the sun.

What really happens when you click "I'm not a robot" verification button.

Do you think JEWISH NIGGER BOTS are going to be a thing one day? Just niggering along with swinging arms and spinning hands going "BEEP BOOP, I AM A NIGGER. TAKE ME TO YOUR WHITE WOMEN". It plays shitty rap out of every orfice in its body at once. It runs into walls. It runs into people and attacks them and calls the cops on them if they can't be beat by the niggerbot. Nobody can hack the program to make it hate niggers.

On the Esoteric Aspects of Technology.

>>2395
What is it that suggests demons are waveforms?

>>2395
The idea is unsettling and the implications on modern technology are obvious.
Reeeeeeeeeeeee

>>2395
That face looks cool. Got any more shit like that?

>>2395
>the intersection of computer technology and what we knot about demons suggests that demons are waveforms
yeah, I'm gonna need a source on that because that sounds pretty fake and gay.

>>2399
>that sounds pretty fake and gay
The proof is evident and pretty straightforward. Everything that manifest into the physical realm has an associated waveform, a crude example of that is the intrinsic resonance of all matter.
Physics and Magick 101.

>>2400
Associated waveform of what? What is creating the wave? What is the frequency of this wave? What is happening enough to show a frequency at all?

You're not using words that are commonly defined, you're using words from Deepak Chopra and getting smug that we don't understand your gobbledygook.

>>2401
>You're not using words that are commonly defined
I'm sorry, I don't have the proper reference at hand but I found something that might help.

>Resonant Frequencies
>Every physical system has a resonant frequency.
https://julianstaylor.medium.com/resonant-frequencies-584fdd5ccb91

>Explained: AS350 Eurocopter Helicopter Self-Destructs - 1:29 long
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FeXjhUEXlc

>Helicopter Tested to Destruction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcdYIkrQVzA

The above gives you a glimpse on the mundane scale, the Earth has its own frequency at macro scale, and going to the micro scale we enter into the electric semiconductors' realm where funny things begin to happen. Suffice to say that if demonic activity can be felt, then that presence must be accompanied by a resonance, also the inverse might be valid.

>>2402
Thanks anon, I guess I'll look into it this week. Also, forgot to mention, I'm not the anon who said it was fake and gay. I'm genuinely interested in the possibility, just not convinced yet.

>>2403
Remember, vibration (resonance) is energy manifested in many forms. Look at the graphic for the whole spectrum.

>>2395
>>2400
>Everything that's a wave is spiritual.
In the days of the birth of the internet a group of people did an experiment to banish any demons (paranormal/spiritual beings) from hardware/software. Things crashed and the connection cut before the planet wide banishment occurred fully.
There is correlation of spiritual matters and material matters that's been known for ages.
>>2402
>Waves can do cool stuff.
Like matter and waveforms, beings that are spiritual do also exhibit those qualities barring the stranger ones but those ones aren't a concern right now.
What can be tested is physical effects of stuff made of matter behaving differently when compared to matter that has such beings and when compared to matter in a zone designed to block such beings.
A huge issue is accounting for all the variables and errors.
There's much more than just String Theory but also Spiritual.

>>2405
To clarify pinning everything as demons (or anything spiritual) be physical waveforms is a stretch without any evidence.
What is known is that the physical and genuinely spiritual do interact.

>>2406
>is a stretch without any evidence
Sure, I agree. That said, intuition and telepathy lack evidence too, and yet we feel and even use them everyday.

>>2407
Intuition is just pattern recognition passed down between generations.

>>2408
Not quite.
Intuition doesn't depend on the senses, and can alert on something happening remotely. Some people have it, some don't.

>>1488
I second >>1493 over there in respecting your digits and congratulating you on an absolutely fantastic post.

I'm trying to work through a certain kind of religion-related thing here, and I'm seeing a ton of new layers to just about every idea. Your post really hits the spot on a number of angles and made connections in my head that I'd never made before. Thanks for that.

Top 50 websites. November 2022.

Dividing by 0 (zero) with a 1950 calculator.

>>2538
I believe it is the same mechanism used by other mechanical brands, the machine goes crazy for 2 or 3 minutes and returns ERROR printed in red ink, if I remember well.

>>2542
Was the monkey alive? this is some nightmare shit.

>>2542
This is what happens when money mixes with science, all the moral boundaries are jettisoned in a blink.

>>2543
>>2544
They already wired multiple monkey brains together to have them do things. And it worked, the brains (monkeys) were able to cooperate on tasks. That was about ten or so years ago.
>>2542
Sounds roughly correct for what they're aiming for.

>>2545
I think the point is to create coherent messages from neural networks. It's pretty groundbreaking for the future of cybernetics and/or other computation. Being able to translate an image from electrodes hooked to brainwaves is a pretty big deal. Those images are clearly faces, and recognizably monkey faces (the dark eyeholes, pronounced browline and pale face surrounded by darker colors are a dead giveaway): the machine was able to interpret images from the monkey's memory and imagination by analyzing the part of its brain that produces abstract thoughts.

>>2545
They were alive then?
>>2546
Fuck that shit, its so dystopic and you are simping for it.. i don't want these faggots to be able to read thoughts.

>>2547
>you are simping for it..
Learn to read, faggot. What part of my post said that I approved of this? I said it was a breakthrough, not that it's good.
>i don't want these faggots to be able to read thoughts
Well, it looks like they already can, to a certain extent.

>>2547
>They were alive then?
Yes, or at least mostly alive. If they were dead they wouldn't have thoughts to read.

>>2410
A lot of that is retroactive confirmation bias, a subconscious coping method that helps people deal with the unknown and unrelenting chaos of the Clownworld we live in.

Ahem.
I'm sure most of (you) have no idea what are these.

>>2575
I remember cassettes.

>>2576
And this?

>>2577
That I am too young to remember.

>>2581
It's the dad of the cassette. It was called tape magazine if I remember well.

>>2589
And that's the irony frens.
Stupidity is innate and not amount of information or education will make it go away.

>>2589
Saved.

>>2616
>$2999
>in the 80s
>with just enough processing power to play games like Berzerk
My god, computers used to be stupidly inaccessible. Really puts things into perspective doesn't it?

>>2617
Look at the 2 docks for diskettes. WOW!

>>2618
Two whole floppies. Wasn't Doom too big for one?

>>2619
>Wasn't Doom too big for one?
I never used diskettes for games, only to load D.O.S.

>>2620
And AutoCAD 9 and 11.

>>2622
>Please do not lower my polygon count
>Actually, I prefer my low polygon count now, thank you
Postal Brain Damaged is fun if you like modern boomershooters, btw, I enjoyed it a lot

>>2618
>2 docks for diskettes
Giving it a second look, those are the first 5 inches diskettes, later came the 3 inches ones with more capacity. That machine is a true dinosaur.

>>2616
>start at $2999
Which was a toy for a kid, to run any serious program the bells and whistles were required, jumping to $5000.

>>2625
To be fair, in 1983 there wasn’t really a dedicated market for gaming PCs. Early personal computers were like early cell phones, in that most people who bought them were either professionals who needed them for some legitimate business reason, or else rich consoomers who just wanted to own the latest gadget. Games for PCs existed but they were super primitive and mostly text based. Video game culture was still mainly in the arcades. I think home consoles also started appearing at this time. Either way, only serious geeks owned home computers for gaming, and most gamers were also programmers. The Commodore 64 was the most popular rig for this type of hobbyist, and that was much more reasonably priced.

>>2626
>Video game culture was still mainly in the arcades.
That machine, in vanilla configuration, could run only games in the Pong category.

The mystery if Pi.
In the video the following statement: “Where ever there is Pi, there is a hidden circle.”
Interesting thought in regards to Pi and the ECM.
An apparent mystery for physics and math fags.

>The most unexpected answer to a counting puzzle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEfHFsfGXjs

>dependencies
No matter what language you program in or what applications you use: everything you do with a computer today is powered at some level by a piece of C/C++ code.

>>2701
>India went to the moon
>turbo bullshit
Do you realize that India just re-discovered the long lost NASA's technologies?

>>2702
That's not even the same technology. Landing a rocket on the moon is a lot easier than putting a person on it.
Also it's not "long lost". It was just dismantled due to lack of continued interest/funding.

>>2703
>That's not even the same technology.
It is all the same tech, even old and contemporary. A rocket with gyro assisted guidance,

>>2706
Based AM trolling the fleshborn

>>2732
That's a nice image macro. Tells a nice educational story with user engagement.
Also visually striking and appealing composition.
10/10

Laugh

>>2766
>second pic
Most self aware and intelligent redditor.

>>2768
>more smarte
That's why he has an IQ of 82 and I'm suspecting his incoming is coming from affirmative action's privileges.

Footage of the annular eclipse in the western United States:
https://vxtwitter.com/nasa/status/1713232586590330923?s=46&t=XP7FxtdAj1hfcxhqXleA9g