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It’s not working! Should I blame caching? (shouldiblamecaching.com)
submitted 5 months ago by Aatube@kbin.melroy.org to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 63 points 5 months ago

I checked the headers. This answer is cached.

age: 72
cache-control: max-age=600
x-cache: HIT
x-cache-hits: 2
[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 46 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I once had a problem that wasn't caused by chaching.

It was caused by cache invalidation.

[–] thejml@lemm.ee 36 points 5 months ago

There are two hard problems in computing, naming things, cache invalidation, and off by one errors.

[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago

I once had a problem that wasn’t caused by caching. It was caused by Accounts Payable forgetting to pay the internet bill, and the ISP cutting our service halfway through a network test. So the beginning of the test cached that the network had internet access, but then the end of the- wait fuck it was caused by caching

[–] listless@lemmy.cringecollective.io 15 points 5 months ago

nah, it's dns.

[–] Artyom@lemm.ee 13 points 5 months ago

Step 1. I'm certain it's caching

Step 2. After evaluating all the caches, it's definitely not caching.

Step 3. oooohhh, it's not ram caching, it's file caching

Step 4. I checked all those files, they're definitely not caching anything unsafe.

Step 5. Oh, it's the other files that are caching.

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

As long as you aren't blaming "the network" or "the firewall" without cause.

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 28 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Now if only there's one for off-by-one errors!

[–] osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org 11 points 5 months ago

Believe it or not, still DNS

[–] Scoopta@programming.dev 8 points 5 months ago

Usually I do my best to blame the network with cause!

[–] Xanza@lemm.ee 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

https://i.xno.dev/s3AQn.png

[–] nous@programming.dev 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Just because your bowser is not caching does not mean something else between you and the server is not caching as well.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 5 months ago

I made a game where you battle the NSA and other stuff once

[–] Xanza@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

thought it was obvious, but clearly /s

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 5 months ago

I hear NSA is creating an eight-dimensional KOSANET that scrapes the information from top-secret backdoors in your IDEs to be sent to this marvelous website's server-side caching.