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Re:Type Server Protocol on Monday October 26, 2026 @05:04PM (#50250923)
I thought workspace/symbol returns an unstructured payload wrapped w/ some metadata.

Since the format is unspecified I imagine many language servers would just return a string representation of the type, which in Python is a PITA to parse because not every type has a closed-form representation (overloaded callable types, for example, have to be declared as a protocol).

Re:Type Server Protocol on Monday October 26, 2026 @04:51PM (#50250755)
Right now it's specific to Python but I think there are other languages w/o an official type checker that might benefit.

PHP, Erlang, Ruby, etc.

Re:Another day another GitHub incident on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @12:38AM (#50161423)
No, it's a separate forge. You can choose to mirror repos between Github and Origin, but you can also have repos on just Origin and w/ no dependency on Github.
Re:Mistral Large 4 on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @10:17AM (#49978888)
If you scroll down, most of the charts on that page are sorted s.t. Mistral's bar is right next to the worst competitor model, while the best competitor model's bar is positioned on the opposite side.

If one were to be cynical one could say that it's intentionally making Mistral's result look better than it actually is by making it harder to compare the bar heights.

Re:Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @10:15AM (#49978851)
First model from them, but I think they released some sort of agent last year? https://sequoiacap.com/article/reflection-ai-asimov
I'm not impressed, it's an AI-generated apology. A quick skim of their code or commit history makes that obvious that this project's development methodology was clearly flawed, and only someone who turned their brain off would have advertised those results in the first place.
Re:Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @02:08PM (#48995931)
Maybe it's like Meta not releasing the big version of Llama 4 a year or two ago
Everything? The blog post and PEP have almost nothing to do with each other lol
> commented/documented code at best

Machine-checked documentation is always valuable, IMO

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