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It refers to a male cousin that is NOT in the same paternal line, so maybe not too uncommon?

Must be proprietary, bc TOTP shouldn't be blocked by age of the device

Good code is code that's easy to delete.

I'm not a game dev, but it's got a reputation for being more of a software engineering shit show than other software industries, which your story only reinforces.

What are the numbers for?

speed up certain types of applications as long as application providers don't have to pay for special treatment

Maybe they mean by doing things like giving slight priority to real-time application traffic like VOIP over streaming over websites vs file transfers, like how home routers can?

Don't think that should be something to charge people more for, though. They're not even able to deliver on their own advertised speeds.

Fine for prototyping, but adds a scaling tech debt "time bomb" for a live system. Those associations had better be really sparse.

So... a polymorphic many-to-many join table?

What do you do for a living/what are you into that isn't super deep in some way? What field did you rabbit hole into in the past that makes you go, "never again", now?

I think people are being lazy, in a selfish, tragedy of the commons sort of way.

When standing in line, they all watch the customer stand there doing nothing as the cashier checks out items. If only they'd bag their own things, we'd all be able to get on with our lives that much sooner. Instead, they continue standing there doing nothing, as the cashier now bags their items.

Then the next person in line moves up and also just stands there, also unwilling to do anything to help speed things along.

One of the best use cases is implementing abstract data types and hiding the memory management and other potentially unsafe optimization tricks behind a clean and high level abstraction.

Also since it's a logical/mathematical construct and not attempting to model the real world (like business logic), it's one case where inheritance hierarchies will remain stable.

I feel a lot of advice here is trying to push the learning envelope without considering fun & the learning experience. This is for an 8 yr old, and I'm seeing suggestions that would seriously challenge high schoolers, college students, and even some software engineers in industry I've encountered.

For the software aspects of programming, I would suggest looking at programming(-esque) games and web browser programming environments. Here's a solid short list, vaguely sorted from "proramming-esque" to "actual programming":

• https://upperstory.com/turingtumble/ - A physical algorithmic marble and lever puzzle "board game". Great (and designed for?) for kids. Not programming.
• Factorio - A factory-building game that "feels" a lot like software development. Not programming.
• Opus Magnum - mechanical puzzle game by Zachtronics, build algorithmic "molecule-building machines". Not programming.
• - varies from "not-programming" to "contains programming". Can get pretty difficult sometimes.
• Human Resource Machine - Programming puzzle game using assembly-like language. Later stages are challenging.
• 7 Billion Humans - "sequel" to Human Resource Machine, more featureful language, has concurrency and randomness. Later stages are challenging.
• https://www.hedycode.com/ - An innovative learning programming lang and "levels" method that makes Scratch primitive by comparison. Has free online lesson plan & environment. Hedy level 18 is vanilla Python.
• https://www.codecademy.com/ - you said you're using this already

Suggestions to go physical tinkering with electronics is good, but I'm unable to make good suggestions there.

A real computer and coding environment/shell could be good for system admin skills, but the learning curve is steep. You'll also have to be okay with letting him accidentally brick the computer (best way to learn!).

Disagree with Docker and git at this stage of learning. This is an 8yr old playing with scratch, Minecraft, and early levels of CodeAcademy.

The answer to "not dealing with environment" isn't Docker, it's a programming(-esque) game or an in-browser environment.