It's so obvious from even just the vague screenshots that are hidden somewhere on the site that it's a VSCode fork, that I suppose I can see why they've tried to obfuscate that as much as possible.
As someone who's been through that dance twice, it's 5 years from the time (well, day) you press "Submit" if you're applying online, or $RANDOM days of Royal Mail nonsense if you choose to apply by post.
I agree though, the Home Office doesn't have a way of knowing where you were fore sure 5 years ago unless they got someone to go through your "days in and out of the UK" list and vetted/cross-referenced it. And even then it'd likely be incomplete and they'd have to guess.
My surmise is that they look at the level of effort you've put in to filling out that detail, and if the total days in/out isn't particularly a borderline case, then they just wave that bit through.
In a wider scope, I’ve always thought there is an entire area on data processing and manipulation that is missing in CS (and CI) curricula. Not just CSV files, but XML, JSON, maybe some HL7, Pivot Tables, today Excel dynamic array formula, SQL and some functional style processing like data structure LINQ. Plus tools for doing processing like RE, grep, sed, maybe even AWK.
Could someone please post what this disappeared bit is supposed to look like? Looks legible to me when I screenshot and open in Preview on MacOS 15.6.1 (Firefox).
You are probably browsing with zoom, that seems to screw up the up rendering and makes the background and text look different. It should be just black&white random pixel noise for both background and foreground, without motion the text becomes invisible, as it blends with the background.
Totally OT, but thanks so much for DataTables! I used it for a tiny personal project a few years back and it's been quietly chugging away with barely any maintenance required. It was so easy to get up and running with the documentation, implement and customise to my heart's content -- truly an excellent piece of open source!
Funnily enough, the blog post itself has a counterexample in their singular noun example: the table^Wrelation name is `user` which is highlighted by the syntax highlighter as being a keyword. I'd wager the same thing would happen for a table named, say, `transaction`.
Some DB engines won't let you use a keyword as identifiers for anything unless it's quoted, and then you either have to quote everything, or end up in a weird situation where some things are quoted and some aren't.
YouTube have done the same with the Premium subscription. From the email I received:
> We are updating the Terms of Service for YouTube Premium, YouTube Music Premium and YouTube Premium Lite subscriptions ('Terms'). These new Terms will be included in the YouTube Paid Service Terms of Service and will come into effect on September 26, 2025.
> We are making these changes to improve clarity and transparency regarding your subscription, including:
Clarifying our plan types.
Explaining our policies on promotional offers and accepted payment methods.
Clarifying that your subscription access should be predominantly from the country where you signed up.
Providing additional explanations and clarifications on our subscription policies.
I believe that the date may be the end of Q3 for the financial year, if I had to guess, which might explain the similar moves by both parties, though I'll admit that I'm speculating on that point. There's a lot of overlap in vested interests on Spotify and YouTube, when it comes to music especially.
