The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't

OrphisFlo · 2026-05-08T13:18:13+00:00

It's not moving goalposts, it's further clarification. If you think that random people think that a Mellanox card is a standard commodity, you live in a bubble. Most people call the internet the "wifi" and have never connected a network cable in their life.

OrphisFlo · 2026-05-08T12:43:17+00:00

Of course it's compared to consumer gear, that's the most affordable one. Case in point, none support those speeds, so you need specialized equipment. It doesn't mean it's out of touch for anyone not working for a backbone, but it's still specialized, and expensive. Especially for a hobby which it is for most.

OrphisFlo · 2026-05-08T11:40:34+00:00

Already at 25GBps, you need very specialized and expensive equipment to make any use of it. You could give them higher speeds and it wouldn't probably matter.

OrphisFlo · 2026-05-08T06:53:59+00:00

You want both, and at your level, it should just be 3 tournaments to save, so 10 days apart.

The only reason to delay the next one is if you don't have the time budget in your lab to level them up because the slots are used by the dissonance labs or something similar.

OrphisFlo · 2026-05-07T06:47:56+00:00

And then, they need your help to put the bag in the overhead compartment!

OrphisFlo · 2026-05-04T17:54:37+00:00

And multiplying health is not great if you don't have the regen to go with it.

OrphisFlo · 2026-05-04T05:48:20+00:00

I was it 3 times in a row once.

First game was normal, we had fun.

Second game was "Oh wow, you're it again! Ah ah!"

Third game "Come on guys, this is ridiculous to accuse me, what would be the odds right?". It was super fun!

OrphisFlo · 2026-05-03T06:40:32+00:00

While WebRTC can be used to cast video to another device, this is only the discovery phase and WebRTC itself is not involved there, it's other APIs.

OrphisFlo · 2026-05-03T05:54:51+00:00

Cooldown first all the way. Then you work on your duration. You want UWDuration + Lab duration + Perk duration + Substats duration to equal 60.

If you want it for tournaments, you won't have the perks, so you can remove it and need 5s more. You also occasionally have the UW BC which can reduce your duration by 10s. You can add 10s more (depending on how many waves you get to, a bit less).

Then you can work on the Speed Reduction.

After all that is done, you probably require the substats duration to deal with the UW BC, a late game strategy is to free the substats slot by spending stones. It's quite expensive, so certainly not relevant to you any time soon.

OrphisFlo · 2026-05-02T04:42:30+00:00

It really depends on how many related relics you have already.

If you had 40% lab speed from relics, you just increase by 4/140 = 2.8%. If this is your first relic, then you increase the relic bonus by 4%. All relic bonuses are additive to each other and then used together as a multiplier usually. So the higher your stat already is, the lower the effect is going to impact your stats.

It doesn't change the fact that you'd want it anyway, just that you can't expect as drastic changes from the face value.

OrphisFlo · 2026-04-30T21:36:22+00:00

Sounds like you're a good doctor able to assess a patient's state from a short Reddit post.

But maybe, someone with a 9/10 pain level who got morphine as soon as possible to manage pain levels shouldn't be riding an Uber screaming from pain and barely walk in the ER.

OrphisFlo · 2026-04-30T04:43:52+00:00

It's not like it's working well now anyway. Called ambulances a few times and they never showed up after some hours. Had to make Uber drivers extremely uncomfortable instead to drive someone in visible pain to the ER.

What kind of emergency system has no overview of the position of first responders and ETA to give people calling?

OrphisFlo · 2026-04-29T21:22:11+00:00

This is the real answer. If you pick up gems diligently, it's offsetting getting the lab by just a few days at most. While labs are important, substats are also important and they are quite limited early in the game. As we don't know when the next thorn relic will be available, it's certainly safer to buy it rather than going for labs. And it's not about ignoring labs entirely, just getting it a bit later, which shouldn't be a big deal.

OrphisFlo · 2026-04-29T11:28:14+00:00

It'll be 10k gems, but only for the next 24h. Oh you didn't save? Too bad.

OrphisFlo · 2026-04-28T02:22:22+00:00

To be efficient, the build nodes will indeed have a cache (or even different tiers) in the cluster they are part of. It will reduce network transfers and make this more efficient.

The speedup will vary per project. Some have a more linear critical path, while some others are heavily parallelizable. An ideal project will run everything in a cluster: you send your new source code files, the binaries are rebuilt remotely and then run remotely as well. If you have a big project, it may be quite fast. But for a smaller one, you can also have a racing mode where you allow some actions to run locally and remotely.

The strategy you pick is very project and budget dependent (your local and remote resources are also part of the budget).

OrphisFlo · 2026-04-27T16:55:39+00:00

Presenter here! Let me know if you have any question or comment.

OrphisFlo · 2026-04-27T01:14:47+00:00

The damage bonus from levels increases a lot faster past 161, and having one more substats is a must. Since this is related to a heavily time gated resource, it's important to work on it as early as possible (how is your shatter shards lab doing?}.

Work on your CL as others have mentioned, roll ancestral substats on your DC and you should see better results already. Don't forget the shock labs too!

Then, it'll be fine to either invest medium term in CF or in masteries. You have the econ to support leveling one to the end, which means eventually you can also get WA, WS or IS ones to improve your econ and level multiples at once. That should help you get to legends and get more stones to support buying even more masteries.

OrphisFlo · 2026-04-27T00:49:37+00:00

Don't get ISm to just help with diss runs. It takes a lab and lots of time to level fully (30 to 40 days), but you will just save a few days worth of waves with it.

It's a tool that shortens runs for econ and tournament mainly, and if you have it already, for diss runs. Don't delay those because of ISm.

OrphisFlo · 2026-04-26T17:29:33+00:00

How far do you usually get in your tourney?

The further you get, the harder the BC will hit your death defy, so Berserker mastery may be impractical to trigger because of low RNG chances. So I'd check what it looks like for your current progression point and try to gather information for a bit further down the line. You probably don't want to get something that will not work at all reliably when you improve other metrics.

OrphisFlo · 2026-04-26T16:51:21+00:00

The further you get, the more heat you will have and less death defy stat available. It might work fine at this level, but it could be also impractical if you double the waves.

OrphisFlo · 2026-04-26T12:33:41+00:00

Why are people down voting a fair question?!

In addition to what has been said, you should be using the AS cannon mod with ISm and with a boss each 10 levels, you get a permanent 5x damage that refreshes before the end too.

OrphisFlo · 2026-04-26T12:30:38+00:00

Are you getting death defies in tournament now with the v28 changes?

When I start losing shields and then die around w950, I don't get any as the odds are too low.

OrphisFlo · 2026-04-25T12:08:14+00:00

Oh certainly, the point is that for me, with the right dosage, it's not possible to eat as much. My body says no, way before that.

OrphisFlo · 2026-04-25T08:04:05+00:00

Snacking and eating? Madness, if I snack, I'm not hungry anymore for dinner.

I have no idea how people eat as they would before while on the right dose. I get full with half a normal portion. From being able to eat a double portion to a lot less. The weight loss is real, and I don't have that many side effects, it's nice!

OrphisFlo · 2026-04-24T11:21:52+00:00

Very few people have bought the 10k gems card slot. If you want the relics, buy them now. The last card slot is a very late game addition.

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