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Re: Elixir-lang.org has a new design

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Post by stanmancan »

zuzululu wrote: post #89
stanmancan wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Possibly, but I’m a senior software engineer that’s been writing Elixir for the last 5 years and has been experimenting with and using AI for the last 12-18 months. Congrats on being one of the mythical developers that manages to get AI to write perfect code consistently!

there's nothing mythical about it if you treat it like any architecture then there's all sorts of techniques and knobs to produce consistent output

Sure, but vibe coding a whole telecom platform that’s considered flawless by experts in the language is a pretty mythical feat if you ask me.

Re: Elixir-lang.org has a new design

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Post by sheept »

eddd-ddde wrote: post #67
loloquwowndueo wrote: post #27

There’s no obvious way to switch to normal (aka “light”) mode. Dark mode is very difficult for some people (me included) to read. If you must default to dark mode that’s your choice but I’d love to see a light mode toggle somewhere prominent.

Ideally websites just respect the existing media queries so you don't even have to switch!

Designs can't be easily split into a pure light or dark mode, though. Before light/dark modes were popularized, it was common to have some parts be "dark" and other parts be "light," depending on the design (for example, would the iOS 5 game center be "dark mode"?). Elixir's website uses a mix of light and dark to delineate sections.

One consequence of software recently supporting light and dark schemes is that UI designs end up committing to all white or all dark, rather than tastefully choosing a color scheme that best frames its content in context.

Re: Elixir-lang.org has a new design

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Post by sheept »

madibo3156 wrote: post #37
loloquwowndueo wrote: post #27

There’s no obvious way to switch to normal (aka “light”) mode. Dark mode is very difficult for some people (me included) to read. If you must default to dark mode that’s your choice but I’d love to see a light mode toggle somewhere prominent.

Yeah. You'll notice that there's a mix of light and dark. Some segments are light-on-dark, then it switches to dark-on-light. It appears to me like a "design trend" that's at odds with accessibility. https://www.apple.com does this too.

Why would it be at odds with accessibility? The text contrast is excellent in each section, and the light/dark segments clearly define the border between sections. Forced dark mode can be difficult to read for users with astigmatism, but the font size is large, and the actual documentation sites[0] do have a light/dark switch.

[0]: https://elixir.hexdocs.pm/1.20.2/

Re: Elixir-lang.org has a new design

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Post by ch4s3 »

dnautics wrote: post #51
ch4s3 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s pretty hard to make things like math faster for real world use cases in a bytecode interpreter.

i ran a quick experiment where instead of doing boxing the way its done in the beam currently, i used a different boxing (NaN strategy and there was a 10x speedup

Is that translates to real workloads you should open a pr.

Re: Elixir-lang.org has a new design

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Post by sheept »

nozzlegear wrote: post #58
eikenberry wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They have a Machine Learning section on the front page. Just have to scroll down a bit, under the "Use Elixir for" section.

I don't think Machine Learning falls under what most people consider "AI" and "LLM" these days, even if they're technically intertwined.

Machine learning used to be used as a buzzword alongside AI, though nowadays after the release of ChatGPT it seems they've settled on AI.

Re: Elixir-lang.org has a new design

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Post by ipnon »

CyberDildonics wrote: post #88
999900000999 wrote: post #31

Elixir is such an elegant language. I'm hoping to find a reason to use it soon.

I'm hoping to find a reason to use it soon. Do you have a program that doesn't need to run fast?

It's a good joke but most of my applications are I/O bound. So I use Elixir for performance.

Re: Elixir-lang.org has a new design

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Post by lenkite »

josevalim wrote: post #57
pests wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Human produces output similar to a machine trained on all human output"

It is funny (and perhaps a bit depressing) that LLMs were trained on our content and now, if we generate a similar structure as before, with the usual love and care, we will be criticized by it. Even when it does not "look bad or is a bad result".

Thankfully, the webpages I make are so god-awful that no one can accuse of me of using an LLM. I use bog-standard browser controls for forms - they look fugly but its so rare to see raw/naked form controls nowadays that they look snowflake special.
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