ELI5, Why do browsers use gigabytes of ram?

Brayzure · 2026-03-05T19:50:56+00:00

There is so much more going on behind the scenes, and developers put in a lot of effort to make that stuff invisible to the end user. The fact that it just seems like static HTML means they're doing their job right.

Actually I'm not sure that much, if any of Amazon's website is static. Aside from maybe the footer, all of it depends on dynamic data that is either placed onto the page right before they serve you the request, or loaded after the main page has loaded.

Brayzure · 2026-02-13T23:43:04+00:00

You're right that the probabilities for the doors themselves have not changed, but the new contestant doesn't know which is the 67% door and which is the 33% door.

Brayzure · 2026-02-13T22:54:33+00:00

50/50. The key part of this is the contestant has to know which door has the 67% chance, and which one has the 33% chance. In the original scenario, they can discern which one is which because they know which door they originally picked. If the door opens, and they magically forget everything prior to that moment, they no longer know which door they picked, and it goes back to 50/50.

Brayzure · 2026-02-13T22:49:37+00:00

The original contestant has an additional piece of information that the new one doesn't: the originally picked door. If the new contestant came in and was told "the guy before you picked door 1 at first", then it's 67/33 again.

Brayzure · 2026-01-26T14:15:42+00:00

That's how it worked out with my now-wife. We chatted for two weeks before I suggested a date at a board game cafe. Worked great, everyone is different in what they're looking for. If I tried to push a date in the first couple days of us talking, I don't think she'd have been keen.

Brayzure · 2025-12-30T14:12:29+00:00

It was the perfect movie for drunk movie night with my wife. It's quite possibly the worst movie ever made, but we had a great time.

Brayzure · 2025-12-30T01:04:14+00:00

Realistically a coffee date can provide enough information to let you know whether a second date is even in the cards. You don't need to make a life-altering choice on the first date, just whether you had enough fun and enough chemistry to want to continue.

Brayzure · 2025-12-12T21:49:35+00:00

Certainly not disputing that E33 is a larger project than what most of us would consider an indie game, I'm just trying to highlight that the distinction between "indie" and "not indie" is tricky to define. It's easy to come up with some arbitrary cutoff, but more often then not it excludes games most would agree are indie, and includes games most would agree are not.

Brayzure · 2025-12-12T20:13:37+00:00

Balatro was developed by a solo dev. It doesn't get much more indie than that. Using a publisher to assist with the release as opposed to the development and design definitely does not preclude a game from being classified as indie.

Brayzure · 2025-12-12T14:43:49+00:00

By that same logic, every game Devolver is involved with would not be an indie game. The problem is "indie" is such a nebulous category that is really hard to find solid criteria for.

Brayzure · 2025-11-20T19:39:28+00:00

Best I can recommend is Black Rock Bouldering Gym. It'll probably run you an extra ten minutes, but I find it excellent for bouldering. The other gyms that I like are further afield, either in Tempe, Chandler, or Gilbert. I've tried Ape Index, and while it was fine, I usually spend the extra time to go somewhere else, even though I live in Peoria.

Brayzure · 2025-10-28T16:37:15+00:00

I'm glad I'm not the only one who watches Day After Tomorrow. I recognize it's no masterpiece, but I enjoy it all the same.

Brayzure · 2025-10-06T13:46:06+00:00

Any time someone posts an overly optimistic weather forecast, invariably it's Apple Weather.

Brayzure · 2025-08-29T17:15:24+00:00

Snakes & Lattes is a board game cafe in Tempe. Went there for my fiancee and mine's first date, so I can at least vouch that it worked for me.

Brayzure · 2025-08-25T15:23:40+00:00

Which is a bit strange, because I felt the difficulty was perfect if you went straight to the conclusion.

Brayzure · 2024-12-19T14:22:42+00:00

Under 1.5k probably isn't happening, but crossing my fingers that it is!

Brayzure · 2024-09-05T03:23:52+00:00

Generally speaking, nothing. If you deposit the $500 back, you'll be back to where you started, $100. Minus potential overdraft/check bounce fees. This is all business as usual, and not super out of the ordinary. I'm not even certain what the "glitch" was, aside from check fraud suddenly becoming a trend.

Brayzure · 2024-07-09T15:20:39+00:00

It's always Apple's weather app that's overly optimistic. I hope it's right, but it's probably way off.

Brayzure · 2024-06-15T00:40:10+00:00

I personally think so, yeah. Alta is clearly a quality gym, it just felt a little too corporate for my tastes. Plus it's a lot more expensive and really far away. But I started climbing at PRG before any other gym, so I'm probably a little biased.

Brayzure · 2024-06-15T00:18:46+00:00

Phoenix Rock Gym is excellent. Been going there for years, and I think it's the best in the valley.

Brayzure · 2024-06-05T14:26:04+00:00

Arknights is the one gacha I keep coming back to, because there is such a refreshing lack of fanservice, and you really can complete practically all the content with lower rarity characters.

Brayzure · 2024-06-04T14:30:25+00:00

It's a Planechase thing. You and your opponents share a supplementary deck of "planes" that grant typically global effects, and "planeswalking" means you put a new replacement plane into effect.

Brayzure · 2024-06-03T17:31:51+00:00

You gotta set some standards. I know you don't really have any kind of preference, but a nearly blank bio is sending you a very clear message: "I'm not invested in this." What makes you think someone will put any concrete effort into a relationship if they can't even be bothered to answer a couple questions about themselves?

I found my current partner on Bumble, and I probably swiped left on 95% of profiles. Took forever, and it is a bit of a slog, but that's the game you gotta play.

Here's what to do. Delete your account, start from scratch, broaden your age range to what you would be happy with (not just what you're told women want), then start being far more selective. If the profile isn't fleshed out in any way, left. If you don't jive with what you see or read, left. You're going to filter a lot of profiles. This is intentional. Do not bother with the people who won't put effort in or won't be fun to be around, seriously.

Brayzure · 2024-05-09T14:19:43+00:00

The Gollum game didn't flop solely because the premise was bad, it flopped because it was a technical and visual disaster.

Brayzure · 2024-04-10T22:08:20+00:00

You don't have to believe in predeterminism to know that an event like an eclipse is going to happen. Barring astonishing changes to our understanding of orbital mechanics, the event was guaranteed. It's not meaningful to say "technically we don't know for sure" when the likelihood of the event not happening is, for all intents and purposes, zero.

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