I remember crepuscule, because thats the spanish cognate from Eclipse, from the Twilight Films

so how did Somalia get that way, well there was a challenge from a local warlord
Mohammed Hassan, who challenged the Brits,

Julia Child writes that BB is even better the day after.

BB is not that hard to make. I’d always assumed that French cooking was some complex culinary mystery beyond the realm of ordinary mortals such as myself. There are a fair number of steps but even this bachelor managed.

Last week I made Coq Au Vin. Turns out it is basically BB with chicken instead, but with CAV you get to do the brandy flambé!

I love Child’s language:
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Uncover, and pour in the cognac. Averting your eyes, ignite the cognac with a lighted match. Shake the casserole back and forth for several seconds until the flames subside.

For instance, today I got stumped on the difference between two similar words, crepuscule and penombre. Chat was perfect one-stop shopping:
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huxley: crepuscule vs penombre

ChatGPT: “Crepuscule” and “penombre” both relate to light and darkness but with nuances. “Crepuscule” refers to twilight, the time just after sunset or before sunrise when light is fading or just beginning to increase, but it’s not completely dark yet. “Penombre,” on the other hand, refers to dimness or semi-darkness, where there is light but it’s weak or obscured, not necessarily related to the time of day. It’s used to describe shaded or poorly lit areas. Both terms evoke specific atmospheres related to light, with “crepuscule” often associated with the beauty of dusk or dawn, and “penombre” suggesting a more subdued or mysterious ambiance.
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Google doesn’t scratch that itch at least not on the first page. Google lists definitions for each word. And there are some links in French to that discussion, but nothing like the immediate answer, in English, Chat provided.

Yes, I missed the second half of your reply. OK. my boeuf bourguignon question wasn’t the best example.

I would add, however, when I asked Chat that question I was pretty sure I would get a clear answer, one-stop shopping as you said. And I did.

If I had googled for the substitution of eye of round and BB, it might have worked immediately, it might have become a wild google chase.

Chat did give me the 4/5 hours fast, 7/8 hours slow answer, no doubt from the same place you found it. I just truncated my comment to what I decided to use.

And of course Chat might get better as a search engine. But Google and DuckDuckGo are very fast and very good search engines. It literally took me a second or two to find the answer.

I’m not sure you saw my full answer. I had added to it and the full answer is this:

huxley:

I’m referring to the examples of Chat that you’ve given here at the blog.

As for the “eye of round in the slow cooker” question, Google gave it to me in about 2 seconds. The answer wasn’t the same as Chat’s, by the way. I got 5 hours in the slow cooker – or, more specifically, 7 or 8 hours on low in the slow cooker, 4 to 5 hours on high in the slow cooker. I’m not sure why you’d think that’s difficult for a regular search engine.

What search engines can’t do and Google can do is write poems, etc.. But for ordinary searches – and most searches are ordinary – I don’t see it as superior at all.

neo:

I thought so. Keep in mind that I haven’t been trying to convince anyone by my examples that Chat is a superior search engine.

If you’ve got a specific search target, Google is just fine. For more involved questions, such my Boeuf Bourguignon, I recommend Chat.

And Chat is going to keep getting better.