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		snookerdooker on Aug 7, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ignore the haters, and other lessons learned from ... Although I cannot assume, I'd at least hope that a "large company’s CI system" would cache the frequently encountered version(s) of a certain dependency :/

metadat on Aug 7, 2022 [–]

Not a safe assumption. They tend to only invest effort into caching after getting blocked.

As a concretr example, this is a common big problem for NPM, and they have to resort to blocking IPs and/or CIDR ranges.

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