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Comment Re:Meanwhile (Score 1) 57

I use it as an alternative to Google as a general purpose question answerer and word definer. Particularly when I'm trying to think of a word, or whether the word I have in mind has the connotations I think it does. Rather than having to suss the answer from the various hit summaries, and then dive down into a few sites, it just gives me a straightforward answer. A recent conversation I had: "What is the 'static' keyword in Java for?" (I don't use Java at all) and, after getting a good summary, I asked it, "Are Java static methods like Ruby class methods?" And yes, yes they are. It is no wonder Google is scrambling hard to come up with their own chatty AI.

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