Most mainstream databases implement some form of “incremental” backup. If you’ve already performed a backup, subsequent ones can be done by only transferring what has changed since your last backup. It’s a clever optimization. But it turns out, in many cases a full backup is much faster than an incremental one.| Jacob Davis-Hansson on Tech
If you’re stuck working from home for a few weeks due to coronavirus, welcome to remote work life! Here are some things that I’ve seen make remote life successful.| Jacob Davis-Hansson on Tech
Your Makefiles are full of tabs and errors. An opinionated approach to writing (GNU) Makefiles that I learned from Ben may still be able to salvage them.| Jacob Davis-Hansson on Tech
If you are familiar with stack machines, it turns out that you also understand the broad strokes of how most US legislative bodies operate. Seeing the commonality will instill in you the sense of awe that only reading execution traces from an operational quarter millennia old computer can.| Jacob Davis-Hansson on Tech
A friend of mine told me he had an interesting realization one day. Thinking back to the projects he’d done for big banks before his current job, each and every one of his software algorithms had eventually ended up in The Guardian under a headline like “Giant Bank Inc. indicted for massive automated customer fraud system, AGAIN!”.| Jacob Davis-Hansson on Tech