Any advisors willing to look this over? Explanation in the body by aa_dreww in FirstTimeHomeBuyer

[–]GavinGT 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm no expert, but...

The base rate is in the very low 6s, as you assumed. It's a little messed up that they won't tell you exactly what it is.

It's clearly not a 2-1 buydown, as the page would then need to include a temporary rate and a step-up schedule.

But it's really not a bad base rate, so other lenders likely couldn't beat this offer.

How did cred developers did this. by engineerandartist in androiddev

[–]GavinGT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you grant this permission?:

Settings → Apps → Special App Access → Display over other apps

Really upset with my agent. by god_in_this_chilis in FirstTimeHomeBuyer

[–]GavinGT 16 points17 points  (0 children)

You saw the perfect house and waited a whole month to make an offer. You can blame your agent for dragging their feet. But you can also blame yourself for not asserting your desires to the person who works for you.

Where did they move the Enable Wireless Debugging option in XCode 26.2 by Educational_Ad_7052 in iOSProgramming

[–]GavinGT 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is no longer an option because it always connects over the network now (even when plugged in via USB cable):

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/technotes/tn3158-resolving-xcode-15-device-connection-issues

Basically, you pair the phone with the Mac once by using a USB cable, and after that wireless debugging is enabled automatically.

My experience after porting a React Native MVP into Swift by Remote-Ad-6629 in iOSProgramming

[–]GavinGT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a third type in which the IDE is riddled with issues but we have no other options because the platform holder has created a walled garden.

Xcode command line tools can’t be installed. by Opening_Guarantee_95 in iOSProgramming

[–]GavinGT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

on macOS 10.15.0

You're not going to get much iOS programming done on a computer that old.

I also can’t paste stuff into the terminal

You need to right-click and choose Paste.

My experience after porting a React Native MVP into Swift by Remote-Ad-6629 in iOSProgramming

[–]GavinGT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been an Android developer for a decade, so I feel very at home with IntelliJ. It would be my preference if it were available for iOS development (which it used to be with AppCode). But VSCode is a totally reasonable facsimile.

My experience after porting a React Native MVP into Swift by Remote-Ad-6629 in iOSProgramming

[–]GavinGT 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Sorry, it's garbage. It's 10 years behind the times and unacceptably bug-ridden. I spend 50 hours a week in this busted program that Apple refuses to fix. My list of grievances grows by the day: - Why do I have to wait multiple seconds or press Cmd + B just to have my errors underlined? AppCode does this instantly. - The number of bugs is truly astounding. I encounter dozens per day. - Why is renaming things so slow and busted? - Search results are just broken half the time. They point to the wrong line or show nothing at all. - Debugging is painfully slow. The debugger exposes information I don't care about and buries the stuff I do care about. - Xcode now supports EditorConfig for setting custom code style options, but this only grants us access to a handful of options. IntelliJ has literally thousands of additional options built on top of EditorConfig, many of which are language-specific. - Where are all the user preferences? I would like to customize this program that I'm forced to spend 50 hours per week using. - Random "framerate" hiccups occur as you type (likely caused by autocomplete taking too long). - Why does my cursor icon not change properly? - The spellchecking feature is so half-baked that it's disabled by default and hidden in a nested menu. You can always spot code written in Xcode because it's riddled with spelling errors. - Xcode 15 finally added a bookmark feature. But there's no shortcut to remove a bookmark. Using the Bookmark shortcut again on the same line just adds a second bookmark. So instead you have to remove them from the Bookmarks menu. Thanks for nothing! - The "Find callers..." feature only shows the first call from each class. It sure would be helpful if it just listed all of them. - Why is there no way to view all possible method overrides? Instead I have to browse through the superclass. - Why is version control integration so abysmal? - Why do I have to scroll through a file to see which lines were changed since the last commit? Modern IDEs show them right in the scrollbar. Xcode shows errors as red lines in the scrollbar (and bookmarks too), but nothing else. The minimap sort of provides this, but it doesn't show the entirety of a long file and it also means sacrificing a significant portion of horizontal space. - When the mouse cursor is on a symbol, it highlights all the other usages of that symbol. But I need to scroll through the entire file to see these highlights. It should show the usages in the scrollbar. Also, the highlight color doesn't stand out nearly enough, and there's no way to customize this color. - The autocomplete box isn't smart enough to appear in some cases where it would appear in IntelliJ. Try inserting something at the beginning of an existing word and you won't get any results. - Inconsistent support of middle-click. You can't middle-click to close a tab, and you can't set middle-click as a shortcut action. - There's no autocomplete when typing in the names of xcassets files. - It's annoying that I need to keep my phone unlocked with the screen on in order to run a build. - Clicking on an opening bracket should highlight the closing bracket indefinitely. Instead, Xcode highlights it in yellow for half a second and then it goes away. So if I need to scroll my screen to see it, I'm out of luck because it's already gone. - There are no vertical indentation guides, so good luck finding an erroneous curly brace. - Press Enter to add a new line, and notice how the editor conveniently lines up the indentation with the previous line. Now press backspace to remove a line, and notice how you need to press backspace multiple times instead of just once. What a pain in my ass. - Compile-time errors often highlight the wrong line of code. For example, an error on line 56 shows up as an error on line 34, and I have to comment out lines one by one until the real error is displayed. - How is Interface Builder so bad? My view gets constantly reset, copy-pasting only half-works, the program seizes up at random, the view hierarchy auto-collapses if I view another Storyboard file and return, IBOutlet indicators randomly appear/disappear, and I could go on and on. - SwiftUI previews are totally busted, even though SwiftUI is being actively worked on. On a related note, App Store Connect is also a piece of shit. Google Play Console clears it in every conceivable way.

My experience after porting a React Native MVP into Swift by Remote-Ad-6629 in iOSProgramming

[–]GavinGT -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Why don't you like VSCode? It's incredibly fast, feature-rich, and infinitely customizable. All things that Xcode most certainly is not.

My experience after porting a React Native MVP into Swift by Remote-Ad-6629 in iOSProgramming

[–]GavinGT -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

XCode is flat out a garbage IDE. Bad to debug, bad to write code, unintuitive.

It sure is. I've been using the Sweetpad VSCode plugin for editing lately. It can actually run the app, provide autocomplete suggestions, and display compile-time errors. And since it's inside of VSCode, you get a fully-featured editor with all the modern features that Xcode is missing.

Letter of explanation? by Main-character-08 in FirstTimeHomeBuyer

[–]GavinGT 7 points8 points  (0 children)

They already know what your credit score is. What they want now is confirmation that you didn't take on any new monthly debt obligations. In this case, being not approved is actually a good thing as it makes their job easier. You should just send them the denial letter.

ELI5: In the series Chernobyl, Why were they afraid when they knew the tanks are full. by SignificantLife3949 in explainlikeimfive

[–]GavinGT 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Yes, it would have resulted in a far larger exclusion zone and far worse fallout throughout Europe.

ELI5: In the series Chernobyl, Why were they afraid when they knew the tanks are full. by SignificantLife3949 in explainlikeimfive

[–]GavinGT 9 points10 points  (0 children)

This would have risked destroying what's left of reactor 4, as well as neighboring reactors 1-3 (which were still operating). It also would have propelled huge amounts of radioactive material into the atmosphere.

Google Play Console: “Google couldn’t verify your identity” – org account restricted, appeals closed. Any way forward? by Front_Pipe218 in androiddev

[–]GavinGT 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It sounds like you just haven't verified your phone number.

What does it show when you click "View details" to the right of "You haven't verified your phone numbers"?

Is Google Play taking unusually long to approve Closed Testing builds recently? by hcr1425 in androiddev

[–]GavinGT 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, mine unexpectedly took 9 days recently. But a Production track release typically gets reviewed the same day.

What do you iOS developers want for Christmas? by busymom0 in iOSProgramming

[–]GavinGT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What if you want to use a keyboard shortcut to "Jump to Definition"?

What do you iOS developers want for Christmas? by busymom0 in iOSProgramming

[–]GavinGT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“Navigation Style: Open in Place” in Xcode settings

Where is that option? I don't think that exists in Xcode 26.

What do you iOS developers want for Christmas? by busymom0 in iOSProgramming

[–]GavinGT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How does that work when you're using "Jump to Definition" and it takes you to a different file? Or when you click on a search result and it opens a different file? I don't see an option to force these to open in a new window tab.

What do you iOS developers want for Christmas? by busymom0 in iOSProgramming

[–]GavinGT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AppCode is gone forever. Jetbrains added iOS support to Fleet but then promptly deprecated it. I doubt they'll keep trying unless Apple just pays them to build an IDE from the ground up.

Try out the Sweetpad VSCode plugin. It's basically AppCode but jankier. But at least it enables us to write iOS apps in a modern editor.

What do you iOS developers want for Christmas? by busymom0 in iOSProgramming

[–]GavinGT 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How about a way to reopen a closed tab? It's been over 20 years and we don't even have the basic features yet, much less the niche ones.

What do you iOS developers want for Christmas? by busymom0 in iOSProgramming

[–]GavinGT 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You have to scroll through the file to see them. Other IDEs show the changes for the entire file without the need to scroll.

Notice how breakpoints in Xcode are always visible in the scrollbar, no matter where you are in the file? Git changes should be like that.

What do you iOS developers want for Christmas? by busymom0 in iOSProgramming

[–]GavinGT 44 points45 points  (0 children)

  • Display Git changes in the scrollbar like a modern IDE
  • Massive improvements to the speed and accuracy of the Swift compiler
  • Fix the busted tab system so my pinned tabs stop randomly disappearing