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I wonder what % of comments here are from bots.

Great answer! Thank you!

I can see why it isn't a local or global maxima solving function, but it surely can be modelled by one, right?

Is it perhaps available behind a flag somewhere?

How do you update pmiles? Do you have to rebuild the entire map every time? If so, I think that's a downside/limitation for some use cases.

I think "it" refers to the process of sitting on the mat.

yes.

And vice versa, many of our societal issues would go away, if companies won't only be concerned about profits.

Let's not blame the players for the game rules being flawed.

Few years have passed and your guess is still wrong.

> ... with no custom code ...

Except all the custom code in saasufy-components

Sure. Using things like loops and conditionals to stitch parts of the specification together is not a very declarative way to do things, imo. Regarding a better system I don't know, they all have their quirks, I guess. My point was that purely declarative approach has its limits and often times breaks when facing real world complexity.

This is the case with any other declarative programming system: while you only care about "what", i.e. the end result matching your declarative specification, you are living a dream. Once you need to fine-tune the details of how you get there (e.g. performance, resource use), or tweak the end result in a way that is not easy to describe within the constraints of your declarative dream land, things get ugly pretty quickly. Query hints in some SQL dialects, vendor-specific hacks in HTML/CSS, Kubernetes YAML templating, etc. are all sad stories about it.

The answer perhaps depends on how you define "understanding" and "meaning", and whether these concepts are separable from language at all.