• Björn Tantau
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    3821 hours ago

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

    It was caused by cache invalidation.

    • 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

    • @thejml@lemm.ee
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      2719 hours ago

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