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New comment by theaino in "Giant magnetic ropes seen in Whale Galaxy's halo"

theaino — Thu, 02 Jan 2020 19:03:13 +0000

It wouldn't help your case since that's a paraphrasing of this quote from Max Planck:

“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”

New comment by theaino in "Giant magnetic ropes seen in Whale Galaxy's halo"

theaino — Thu, 02 Jan 2020 18:43:05 +0000

> They are very practical like that.

Or not. "Science advances one funeral at a time."

Related HN discussion from a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21911225

New comment by theaino in "The Real Class War"

theaino — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 15:06:06 +0000

> "The death of the working class reporter"

This article is just standard journalistic myth-making. The journalists cited as examples of success without college degrees, Carl Bernstein and Walter Cronkite (who both went to college, just dropped out), came from privileged backgrounds just like the privileged kids who fill the industy today.

New comment by theaino in "Dropbox no longer follows symlinks to items outside of your Dropbox account"

theaino — Sat, 31 Aug 2019 19:43:06 +0000

Dropbox was replacing symlinks with the target file or directory tree in synced copies. This obviously breaks legitimate symlinks since the whole point of having the symlink is to have a reference to the target, not another copy of the target.

It’s really simple: symlinks are symlinks and should be synced as symlinks. Now they are.

New comment by theaino in "Dropbox no longer follows symlinks to items outside of your Dropbox account"

theaino — Sat, 31 Aug 2019 14:24:00 +0000

No, because Dropbox is a file syncing utility so symlinks, which are special files that point to other files, should be synced as symlinks. Replacing the symlink with the target file or directory is obviously broken behavior.

New comment by theaino in "Dropbox no longer follows symlinks to items outside of your Dropbox account"

theaino — Sat, 31 Aug 2019 14:20:38 +0000

No, previously you were relying on a magic Dropbox hack that broke symlinks, whereas now the file system can be used properly and symlinks work like actual symlinks.

New comment by theaino in "Dropbox no longer follows symlinks to items outside of your Dropbox account"

theaino — Sat, 31 Aug 2019 14:05:29 +0000

Dropbox’s following of symlinks has always been magical, nonstandard behavior that breaks symlinks and is user-hostile for anyone who relies on proper symlink behavior.

New comment by theaino in "Dropbox no longer follows symlinks to items outside of your Dropbox account"

theaino — Sat, 31 Aug 2019 13:57:45 +0000

As another commenter mentioned, it is actually very common to symlink dotfiles like that and is how most dotfile management tools work. Dropbox’s magic symlink following has always been the anti-pattern and has made it impossible to sync symlinks properly, until now apparently.