Tag: Python

10 posts

Convenient and lightning fast backups with rsync

Automation ~8 min read
Cloud storage became affordable a long time ago while internet connection speeds have increased dramatically over the years. Yet, there is still a strong case to be made for daily backups of a whole system and for this purpose, there are few options to contend with rsync.

Exponentiation in Modular Arithmetic Made Easy

Automation ~3 min read
While playing around in the Python interpreter to validate answers to mathematical questions, I quickly found out that very large exponents are dealt with very inefficiently by default as they are simply evaluated as is. That’s where Python came to its own rescue.