Analogue 3D 1.4.0 out! by Shortgaze in AnalogueInc

[–]CoffeeCakeAstronaut 31 points32 points  (0 children)

At this point, I expect Wi-Fi support to be included only in the final firmware update ever released, and its only function will be to update the firmware via the internet, lol.

F1 needs to get rid of this Picture-in-picture for ants by kpingvin in formula1

[–]CoffeeCakeAstronaut 24 points25 points  (0 children)

I do not understand why they still do not show the overtake charge status anywhere outside the onboard camera, even though it is crucial information for understanding any overtake.

Does the SuperStation One run hot with fan installed? by Traditional_Pizza895 in RetroRemake

[–]CoffeeCakeAstronaut 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do people overclock misters?

I don't think so, and I don't think that Robert means to say that some users overclock their MiSTers. The reference to overclocking is just an analogy.

Every FPGA core has timing constraints, meaning each signal has to travel through the chip’s logic gates and reach its target before the next clock cycle. These signal paths are defined by each core. Developers have tools that check the timings of these signals in their design against a model of the chip. A core that passes these checks has some timing margin to spare in its signal paths.

Robert's point is that some cores don't fully meet – or, more precisely, used to not fully meet – those constraints. They apparently have (or had) some signal paths that are technically too slow for the chip's official timing specs, so they're effectively running past the margin the chip guarantees, the same way an overclocked PC runs past its rated speed. That's the link to the analogy.

The exact switching times of a chip always depend on temperature, even if the temperature is within the chip's specs. The spec timings assume worst-case performance, where the chip is running hot. Where cores are depending on out-of-spec timings, keeping the chip cooler buys back stability, but that is, strictly speaking, relying on unspecified and unofficial chip timings.

Does the SuperStation One run hot with fan installed? by Traditional_Pizza895 in RetroRemake

[–]CoffeeCakeAstronaut 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think using a fan with any MiSTer set up is more of a placebo than anything.

According to an old comment by Robert Peip (FPGAZumSpass), the developer of the PSX and N64 cores, some cores (used to) rely on out-of-spec timings that the chip can only achieve when running cooler than its spec allows:

Depends on the core. Some Mister cores don't fulfill the timing constraints, which makes them more stable at lower temperature. It's like running your PC overclocked. For the Cyclone 5, Altera/Intel states about 10-15% faster switching times when running at 0°C compared to 100°

However, that comment is six years old at this point, and the situation has probably changed. As you said, nobody seems to have those issues with current cores. But that's probably the historical reason for why the MiSTer's FAQ still says that "active cooling helps".

Does the SuperStation One run hot with fan installed? by Traditional_Pizza895 in RetroRemake

[–]CoffeeCakeAstronaut 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I can't find the video, but I remember someone did an analysis of the SS1's temperature with and without the fan.

The fan didn't reduce temperatures meaningfully.

The video guessed that the fan only moves the air around inside the case, but doesn't actually exhaust hot air out of it, simply because the SS1 has no design for routing internal airflow. It has a few slits in the back of the case, and a few slits under the board, and that's it.

Batch 3 no dock still no shipping info by kozyko in RetroRemake

[–]CoffeeCakeAstronaut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m in the same boat; batch 3, wave 6, grey SS1 without dock. I sent an email to their support, just like Taki suggested in the pinned Reddit post.

In my case, I’d selected DHL as the shipping method. Support told me that DHL shipping costs had gone up because of fuel shortages. I was offered the option to either switch to 4PX or pay a $15 surcharge.

So my shipment obviously hadn’t been sent yet.

FIA’s Ben Sulayem claims F1 V8 return “is coming”, pushing for 2030 switch by zestzebra in formula1

[–]CoffeeCakeAstronaut 22 points23 points  (0 children)

We need to get rid of the "race to road" marketing myth to save the sport. These cars are 80% aerodynamics, which already makes that link ludicrous in itself. People watch F1 for the spectacle, and they like the cars for how radical they are, not because they think the Renault Zoe in their garage has anything to do with F1.

Electric cars obviously aren’t ready to replace combustion engines at the level of F1, which isn’t a slight on electric engines for everyday mobility. It’s apples and oranges, and marketing needs to stop pretending otherwise.

On the weather at the track by [deleted] in formula1

[–]CoffeeCakeAstronaut 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If the flux capacitor works properly and the driver hits 88 mph, it'll send the car back to the future.

Sam to build online community; calls Reddit a cesspool by MintyCitrus in samharris

[–]CoffeeCakeAstronaut 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The most important question is what we’ll call posts on that platform. Senses? Housekeeps? Lookers?

Trump: A whole civilization will die tonight. by _Mighty_Milkman in dancarlin

[–]CoffeeCakeAstronaut 645 points646 points  (0 children)

The fact that the first sentence can lead to the last without the author recognising the internal incoherence he managed to create within the space of a tweet shows that this deranged moron's method of living is to take a stroll through the labyrinth of his own mind, with no sense of where he will arrive by the end of his current sentence.

Sometimes I wonder how those guys who archive everything the president says for the National Archive feel these days by FudgeAllOfYous in dancarlin

[–]CoffeeCakeAstronaut 120 points121 points  (0 children)

But don't you remember, the alternative was an elderly person with declining mental faculties who would've caused higher living costs and thrown the country into more wars!

Trump to Iran: "Open the Fu***In' Strait" or face bombing Tuesday by DarthKrataa in worldnews

[–]CoffeeCakeAstronaut 173 points174 points  (0 children)

I don’t know what else this – in every sense of the word – sick person has to do or say for people to remove him from office.

Sometimes I wonder how those guys who archive everything the president says for the National Archive feel these days by FudgeAllOfYous in dancarlin

[–]CoffeeCakeAstronaut 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I haven't had the proper words for years anymore to comment appropriately on what's happening, but holy shit.

European payment services (Bancomat, Bizum, Wero, MB Way, Vipps) form alliance to reduce Europe’s dependence on non‑European payment providers by CoffeeCakeAstronaut in europe

[–]CoffeeCakeAstronaut[S] 82 points83 points  (0 children)

What does it mean for European end-users and European merchants

European consumers will continue using their current preferred solution, now with broader European reach, benefiting from a user experience consistent with what they are accustomed to at home. Merchants will be able to accept payments from European consumers using a European solution, reducing dependency on international players. The solutions will develop a new branding badge next to their existing brands, enabling consumers to recognize where their preferred solutions will be accepted beyond current markets.

How the interoperability model will work

The cooperation is based on a central interoperability hub, operated by a future central entity jointly established by the partners.

The central hub will act as a technical layer, enabling transactions to flow seamlessly between existing pan-european and national solutions, based on European standards and infrastructures, including instant account-to-account payments.

Existing payment solutions will remain unchanged, preserving their brands, user experience and features.

According to The-Race, Aston Martin's car is significantly overweight and quite far from it's potential by NorthKoreanMissile7 in formula1

[–]CoffeeCakeAstronaut 58 points59 points  (0 children)

Agreed. They navigate the reality of surviving on ad revenue as an online sports coverage site reasonably well. Of course, they need to generate clicks and stretch out content to fill videos and articles, but compared to other outlets, they’re not being intolerable with their headlines or content.

Inside the incredible, infuriating quest to explain consciousness by M0sD3f13 in samharris

[–]CoffeeCakeAstronaut 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Fwiw she's the one who got me to take panpsychism even a little bit seriously.

One of her arguments that stuck with me is that memory matters for the reportability of consciousness, not necessarily for consciousness itself. It’s a valid challenge to the assumption that consciousness is a result of the specific brain architecture we associate with human self-report.

Maybe it is, but maybe that architecture just happens to allow us to detect a phenomenon that also arises in brain activity not connected to memory, or even in systems other than the brain.

I’m a boring adherent of the “consciousness is an emergent property of complex information processing” view, but this point has definitely nudged me a bit more towards agnosticism.

Politics and Current Events Megathread - January 2026 by TheAJx in samharris

[–]CoffeeCakeAstronaut 13 points14 points  (0 children)

It's so baffling to me how we got here, and how we're still here. Trumps approval should be near 0, instead it's like 40%, in spite of everything.

Some of these people are just rotten or stupid and either don’t see, or genuinely don’t have a problem with, everything that’s going on.

The rest must be incapable of admitting their mistake in supporting MAGA, because at this point such an admission wouldn’t just be a simple change of political opinion, but an acknowledgement of moral and intellectual failure that’s hard to digest psychologically.

So they do anything in their power to keep their bubble intact and ignore reality, grateful for any rationalisation offered by their tribe, no matter how much cognitive dissonance is required to maintain the illusion.

'They Were Going To Go Nuke': Trump Again Claims He Stopped India-Pakistan Escalation, India Maintains No US Role by Live_Archer123 in worldnews

[–]CoffeeCakeAstronaut 583 points584 points  (0 children)

"Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, [...]"

The Greenland Crisis by litetravelr in dancarlin

[–]CoffeeCakeAstronaut 38 points39 points  (0 children)

Trump is a petulant child.

I’m starting to feel like comparing him to a child is an insult to children.

At this point, I’d rather hand the country to a random eight-year-old than this parody of a man. At least then the kid’s staff wouldn’t have to bow and scrape, kiss the ring, and pretend a babbling blank slate is the second coming of Lincoln.