cocoafrog

cocoafrog, 4 days ago

@saagar I noticed this on my last flight as well and was very confused as I looked at my watch and was wondering „wow it’s only been 2h? Feels much longer“
Turns out it had already been something like 6h but my watch had slowly been adjusting the timezone while the flight progressed.

cocoafrog, 5 days ago

@dasdom @RobW @Migueldeicaza I guess this kinda covers the spread? 😅

cocoafrog, 5 days ago

@teilweise @dasdom @Migueldeicaza

it does sound a little exclusionary as if one is better than the other? Not sure whether you meant this.
People use different technologies and come to Swift and SwiftUi with different backgrounds and that’s fine.

cocoafrog, 5 days ago

@teilweise @dasdom @Migueldeicaza oh yeah, I feel that! I notice how much I learned „the AppKit way“ (and partially: the UIKit way) of doing things and how it doesn’t work the way I’m used to in SwiftUI.

cocoafrog, 7 days ago

@finestructure in my experience when you don’t squash merges you end up with a lot of commits on the main branch that don’t actually build or build but have test failures because that’s how development goes: you make a bunch of mistakes first and then you fix those, but you only merge when the top of the branch is good.

cocoafrog, 10 days ago

@ctietze @nicklockwood also loops can have where clauses, eg

for batch in batches where !batch.isEmpty { }

And let for optional unwrap works in loops as well:

var next: Node?
while let current = next {
// do stuff
next = current.parent
}

And you can combine the two.

cocoafrog, 10 days ago

@helge @ctietze @nicklockwood oh yeah, sequence(next:) is one I learned recently and is great! It was more about the general concept of for let.

cocoafrog, 2 days ago

@_Davidsmith awesome to hear that, happy it was helpful!

cocoafrog, 21 days ago

@dzamir the part I’m complaining about with this is that „you can now send wire transfers from the mobile app“ is a new feature in the app in 2024.

While wire transfers exist it seems like the banks almost hide it in their interface. And they are usually expensive. There is a different transfer type (ACH) which theoretically works but can take days to arrive.

cocoafrog, 21 days ago

@dzamir attached is the interface of the mobile banking app now. There is 4 different ways to send money and the 5ths (ACH), the one you probably want because it’s cheap, isn’t even listed.

1: somehow transferring money between your accounts is separate from the others. Of course only for your BofA accounts. Why?
2: Zelle is BofA‘s own alternative to CashApp, Venmo etc. It works well, but is a service on top of the other infrastructure. It’s for sending money to people not companies.

tbc

cocoafrog, 21 days ago

@dzamir
Cont Zelle: You need the recipients phone number to send them money. And they can only associate one bank account with that phone number. I tried to send my landlords the money for rent that way initially and it ended up in the wrong account for them so they asked me not to do that.

Bill Pay is supposed to be for paying bills. So it kinda is for companies. I’ve never used it because everyone I try I end up in the screen below where you add the payee.

tbc

cocoafrog, 21 days ago

@dzamir
Cont Bill Pay: When you click on Company in the screenshot below you get a search screen where you search for the company by name. How can I be sure that I got the right company that way? And you can’t tell me a big company has only one account.
And when you choose on from there you still need to enter an account number. Why then even choose the company before?

cocoafrog, 21 days ago

@dzamir
The last option is Wire Transfer which is the standard in the EU.

And that works and I believe usually arrives within the next business day but if you don’t have a premium account it’s expensive. The interface basically tells you to only use it for important official transactions like buying a house.

cocoafrog, 21 days ago

@dzamir and the only one you can set up for recurring payments (eg pay rent every month) is Bill Pay which is complicated to set up (see above).

And it you used it to pay a regular person, instead of just transferring the money to their account it sends them a paper check to their address every month and you can just hope that it doesn’t get lost in the mail, they actually get it, they remember to cash it etc.

cocoafrog, 21 days ago

@dzamir oh, also wire transfers often use a different account number from ACH transfers for whatever reason.

cocoafrog, 21 days ago

@dzamir so the way I actually pay rent is that I have to remember to manually make a transfer at the end of every month. And I do so by clicking on the „Zelle“ card but then not entering the phone number but entering the Bank of America account number of my landlord, which also works somehow and then makes it go to the right account.

cocoafrog, 21 days ago

@dzamir all of this is ridiculous.

In the EU this would simply be a single screen not 4 different options, none of which work well.

You’d just enter the IBAN of the recipient (which btw has a checksum built in to detect typos) and the he amount and be done. It‘s a wire transfer that arrives the next business day at the latest (but often within seconds) and it’s free.
And there is a checkbox somewhere to make it a recurring transfer and execute it according to some scheduling pattern.

cocoafrog, 1 month ago

@drahardja which one now? 😬

cocoafrog, 1 month ago

@timd ah yes, of course. I’m sure they also have their own pension system only for arsonists and there is probably two competing unions, the arsonist‘s union and the union of arsonists, one of which is fairly right-wing.

Also, for the tax deductions you’ll have to provide an estimate hiw many of the matches were for private use and how many in an official business capacity. A 60/40 split is generally accepted by most tax offices without receipts.

cocoafrog, 3 months ago

@awoerner @icanzilb @marcelvoss have any of you used Outbank before? If so, how does it compare?

cocoafrog, 3 months ago

@thisismissem hm, I think a lot of apartments have washing machines, so not sure that is a sufficient explanation. No idea about the average air purifier‘s electricity usage.

cocoafrog, 3 months ago

@thisismissem iirc, the symbol in the status bar only shows up when you also have an internet connection via that WiFi network. So settings shows connection to the network and status bar whether you can actually use it. Or something like that.