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> Interesting work!

Thanks!

> is there a way for users to report/flag bad suggestions?

For the word hints there isn't a way yet, but this is a great point, I should add it in the future! For the sentence examples, it depends on what you mean with "bad". There's a "..." pop-up menu with an option to flag the example as incorrect or report it (for being inappropriate, abusive etc).

edit: For both cases, it is also possible to shuffle / fetch another suggestion.

There is also another side to that question. If you were a pizza maker and you loved what you did, would you sell your pizza to someone who wishes you and your loved ones die? Maybe that would make you uncomfortable.

These situations are usually framed on how it bothers us, as outsiders to these companies. We tend to put outselves only in the shoes of the pizza consumers, neither the evil entity, nor the pizza maker. But these companies have workers, who put their labor into some product, only then to see that product in the hands of entities that go directly against their core values and existence. I find very understandable that they are mad. Shouldn't we also question these problems from this perspective?

When there are many employees uncomfortable with things like this, maybe it's not a necessity, but I still think it's very nice for outsiders to support them.

However that was in the case where the product is something innocuous, like pizza. Because you know, it might also be case that the product is actually enabling or helping evil to be evil. Such as "being part of the critical toolkit to conduct invasive surveillance". So getting mad could be even more substantiated in those cases.

Oh, I understand your question now. From an European perspective, there is hardly any reason to hold our governments standards as having the moral grounds to establish what's the most efficient way to act in ethical issues like this. Perhaps relative to the USA, yes, so you could be correct that certain government's ineptitudes have a correlation with how creative people get to get heard.

Either way, the whole question of dealing with ethics from the efficiency perspectice is one that bothers me and a whole discussion in itself.

Sure, 'should the tax rate be 25%' seems like an unimportant discussion for companies to debate internally. Do you think all political questions carry similar weights of debate importance or that some questions might be different?

Lua was made specially for non programmers. I think it is really intuitive and easy. I agree with the comment that perhaps understanding optmisation details is hard. But that's hard in every language.

"I took a sabbatical". If the company has a problem with that they are not a good place to work anyway.

Given that, looking for jobs sucks, a couple of rejections can easily make people feel really down. So after some failed attempts I know it's hard to keep the mindset that you are also interviewing the companies, but do try to keep in mind that you deserve a good work environment!

I don't like perl a lot exactly because it's easy to make it hard to read, but I gotta give that CPAN is the best language specific package manager I've ever encountered.

My thoughts exactly on the difference on underrated and underused. Lua is quite widespread in the industry in sneaky ways. It just doesn't get the love it deserves.

+1 to Lua, it is my favorite interpreted language. I like that the design is extremely clean and consistent, not to mention it is way faster than the alternatives.

I have used torch without issues but that was a while ago. It looks like Lua Torch was sort of deprecated in favor of PyTorch

It's not my job to convince you of anything. But while I agree with the lack of universal standard, PEP8 is great, I disagree with all the rest.

The changes between Lua versions are nothing like the abysmal difference between python 2 and python 3. Not only 5.1 code is very likely to run on 5.3 and JIT without issues, if there are ever any issues they are always very minor and solvable with requiring a simple compat library.

As someone who has done a lot of Lua and Javascript, I had always had the feeling that coding in Lua feels better by orders of magnitude. It's a way more consistent language.