You’d be surprised how little math is involved in programming that doesn’t require it. A significant majority of programming is simply managing conditionals. For example: “when the door opens, turn on the light.”

Math comes into place when you need it, and hardly ever comes as a surprise. Additionally, solved problems are generally kept in libraries. For example, you don’t need to calculate a sum; simply tell it to calculate a sum for you, because this is a solved problem.

What you’re already running into is called “impostor’s syndrome.” You believe that you are not capable of something to some degree, even though reality says otherwise. You haven’t tried your hand at programming, so why worry now? You’re inventing problems for yourself before you even got a chance to start.

Just go for it and see what you think. If you don’t enjoy it, no biggie. If you do enjoy it, keep going. No obligations 👌

Saying you don’t need privacy because you have nothing to hide is the same as saying you don’t need freedom of speech because you have nothing to say

I have never heard of a router phoning home to report traffic.

How so?

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Or any OS that uses UEFI. Or UEFI without an OS. So basically UEFI and not Windows or Linux at all.

It’s more or less a consumer version of their RA2 system, which is its own protocol. The gateway interacts with the whole system using commands issued over telnet though, so you actually have a command line for operating and configuring it. It integrates with a bunch of closed systems, and it integrates right into Home Assistant with a first-party HA integration.

It’s not like you can inspect the source code for their firmware push up pull requests on GitHub, so I’m this aspect, yes, it is proprietary. However, with tools like Home Assistant, which is something you probably should be using, this becomes much less of a concern, in my opinion. It’s robust, high-quality, and is commonplace, so you can get bits and pieces at Home Depot.

If you’re interested in something that will work with mesh networks and you aren’t interested in running software like Home Assistant, you should look for Z-Wave or Zigbee hardware. Read reviews though; I’ve had a lot of mixed experiences with hardware, even from “trusted” vendors.

Try a Lutron Caseta dimmer with a Pico remote. They work together as-is without a gateway, and the Gateway Pro will join it to something like Home Assistant in the future. Or you can simply use the Caseta app.

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That’s great to hear! I hope you love your new machine! Enjoy!

Vim handles remote files over SCP natively:

vim scp://192.168.1.2//data/editme.txt

ECM Synchronika here! We’re cousins 😄 Absolutely excellent machine!

How do you like your ECM grinder?

All you need is the TOTP secret, and it will generate OTPs. If you enter the secret in another TOTP app, you’ll also get OTPs. Here’s a Ruby lib that will render OTPs from a secret, for example: https://github.com/mdp/rotp

For an Android TOTP tool, I like FreeOTP+. You can even use it for Steam OTPs.

Imagine your “code” as English sentences. If it is hard to read, you might rephrase it. If something is getting long and drawn out, use paragraphs (methods and functions). At the end of the day, the easier it is to read, the better, unless there’s a performance cost that’s worthy of considering.

Like the top-level comment suggests, you should comment your methods. I would go one step further and use a standard comment format. I like Ruby, so immediately, I think YARDoc. With a YARDoc comment, you define what it does, the parameter types and descriptions, what it returns, possible exceptions that could be returned, etc.

Even better, by using standardized comments, not only does this make it easier to read by you and others, but most of the time, you get documentation rendered for free. For example, here is a library I wrote:

• https://github.com/synthead/timex_datalink_client

And here is the automatically-generated HTML documentation:

• https://www.rubydoc.info/gems/timex_datalink_client/0.12.3

More specifically, here’s some YARDoc for a method:

• https://github.com/synthead/timex_datalink_client/blob/263bffa8a71a0af792c46bea2ae69ab2a015f670/lib/timex_datalink_client/protocol_3/time.rb#L38-L46

And here is the generated documentation from this comment:

• https://www.rubydoc.info/gems/timex_datalink_client/0.12.3/TimexDatalinkClient/Protocol3/Time#initialize-instance_method

This style of auto-generated documentation is available for pretty much all mature languages, and I highly recommend that you hit the ground running with them 👍

Why Apple?

To people that really spend time in code, this banter is meaningless.

Desolder? Just remove the network setting 🤷‍♀️

52.5.0? That’s over six years old.

Web server: “Yes, I’ll have your user agent, cookies, and passport number”

They probably are detecting your ad blocker, and choosing to block random posts as a strange kind of disciplinary behavior.