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Site Discussion => Help & Suggestions => Topic started by: equanimity on November 08, 2014, 12:00:46 am

Title: Forum glitch? Tinypic error?
Post by: equanimity on November 08, 2014, 12:00:46 am
You guys see Moe Howard here, right?

http://www.intosanctuary.com/index.php?topic=4249.msg55508#msg55508

Because that's what I see now, and it makes a lot more sense given the context.  But several hours ago it was a Hello! Project girl.  Really, it was.  She had a cute skirt and everything.  You don't mistake Moe Howard for a modeling Asian girl; it simply does not happen.  But she was there... did anyone else see it?

What could be going on?

(http://i.imgur.com/DEfnmbE.gif)
Title: Re: Forum glitch? Tinypic error?
Post by: Lanny on November 08, 2014, 12:09:12 am
Were you on a phone? Image hosts generally recycle urls but set headers so it doesn't mess you up. Most phone companies put a sort of CDN between you and potentially large assets (pictures, videos) and they're not always sensitive to that behaviour. They'll try to get away with never making a second request to the content provider if they can get away with it and continually serve you from their stale cache.

So that's a possibility. Maybe also your browser has a really janky hash table implementation where a hash collision isn't handled by open addressing or something and images that hash the same will all get the same cache hit. That's even less likely though so IDK.
Title: Re: Forum glitch? Tinypic error?
Post by: Arnox on November 08, 2014, 12:09:39 am
Dunno. Let me know if it happens again.

EDIT: Lanny sounds like he's onto something there.
Title: Re: Forum glitch? Tinypic error?
Post by: equanimity on November 08, 2014, 12:23:17 am
Was on my laptop :/
Title: Re: Forum glitch? Tinypic error?
Post by: RisiR on November 08, 2014, 12:38:38 am
It was Moe from the first second it was posted and never changed.