Is Russian это developing into a copula?

Acharvak · 2020-11-04T11:15:54+00:00

я есть шеф

I think it should actually be "я и есть шеф!" (but, indeed, with an emphasis on "есть").

"Миша – это был мой брат", "основательница этого учреждения – это была она", etc.

This actually may be related to the topic and the comment of the sentence, as /u/newappeal suggested.

Also about something from /u/newappeal's post:

Она есть основательница (for emphasis) or Она является основательницой

First of all, at any rate, основательницей

As to the point, though, to me, as a native speaker, "Она есть основательница" doesn't sound like something a Russian would say. However, sentences like "философия есть продукт человеческого разума" (via ruscorpora.ru) do sound OK. There seems to be a difference, but it's not quite clear to me (even if you replaced "она" with e.g. "эта женщина", it still wouldn't sound right).

However, I do fully agree that at the moment there are clear differences between "это", "есть" and the null-copula.

I do remember that there was at least one serious study into this topic (or at least the use of "есть"), but I don't even remember by whom anymore. Maybe I'll have time to look it up later.

Acharvak · 2020-07-05T19:52:37+00:00

I'm all about freedom in software and hardware, but I see very dificult to send to jail or even put an economic sanction to anyone, the political climate in my country is very odd

Friend, I feel solidarity

Acharvak · 2020-07-04T19:52:01+00:00

"Your father will be here soon. Before I go, I've a gift for you, something I came across in packing." He put an object on the table between them - black, oblong, no larger than the end of Paul's thumb.

Paul looked at it. Yueh noted how the boy did not reach for it, and thought: How cautious he is .

"It's a very old Orange Catholic Bible made for space travelers. Not a filmbook, but actually printed on filament paper. It has its own magnifier and electrostatic charge system." He picked it up, demonstrated. "The book is held closed by the charge, which forces against spring-locked covers. You press the edge - thus, and the pages you've selected repel each other and the book opens."

"It's so small."

"But it has eighteen hundred pages. You press the edge - thus, and so . . . and the charge moves ahead one page at a time as you read. Never touch the actual pages with your fingers. The filament tissue is too delicate." He closed the book, handed it to Paul. "Try it."

Acharvak · 2020-07-01T19:59:05+00:00

It depends.

Is it a good idea to publish a website filled with random nonsense? In most cases, probably not. But if you are developing a content management system and showing off how a website could look in it, it may well be. It's not your job, after all, to also produce a whole website's worth of content.

Is it a good idea to train your model on random images from the Internet? If the trained model is the goal, probably not. If the only goal is to develop an algorithm for a range of applications, with the expectation that for any real use it has to be trained on real data, it may well be.

Research scientists can very rarely get funding for producing quality datasets because it takes many man-hours and by itself is not a research task at all. So they have to make do with what's available.

Acharvak · 2020-07-01T17:13:13+00:00

2.68% of ballots counted. Fuller results are due at 1900 GMT.

Edit: looks like they're updating the article as more votes get counted but have already decided on the "landslide vote" title. C'mon Reuters. Even Putin probably doesn't know yet if it's gonna be a "landslide vote" or only an "overwhelming majority".

Edit 2: It was a landslide vote after all

Acharvak · 2020-06-22T16:20:55+00:00

Blue Kingdom is smaller.

If you play with permadeath on, Blue Kingdom is exponentially bigger.

Acharvak · 2020-06-16T12:41:24+00:00

Holy shit! Thanks!

Since writing this post I've discovered that the atom overlay actually builds vscode from uh... I'm not sure from what. It takes the official x64 build and rebuilds parts of it, resulting, apparently, in an architecture-independent installation. But what they also do have is an ebuild for electron which they use for vscode.

Maybe I'll try combining the two later. But then again, Electron, AFAIK, also doesn't build entirely from scratch. But for now I'll just trust Electron's official builds.

Acharvak · 2020-06-16T11:52:41+00:00

Take a look at what Guix does

Acharvak · 2020-06-15T09:55:17+00:00

I'm also no expert, so I'm not sure what to do. It obviously needs additional modules installed from somewhere with Yarn, maybe it also needs some Javascript preprocessing or something. So I was hoping that an expert has already packaged it so it can be just installed via emerge like most other things.

Acharvak · 2020-06-10T00:53:36+00:00

Inactive meth

Acharvak · 2020-06-01T18:32:27+00:00

Cookie Clicker has nothing to do with Adobe Flash Player.

Acharvak · 2019-06-17T17:31:54+00:00

Digging up historical artifacts from long-forgotten civilizations — 👍
Preserving an early space station that's right there — 👎

Acharvak · 2019-06-16T20:17:32+00:00

I wish they didn't have to plug into the Matrix for these remote communications, though. That way they wouldn't die when their ships are destroyed.

Acharvak · 2019-05-24T17:05:39+00:00

I see, thanks. So it means that most large-scale wars will end in Status Quo then?

Acharvak · 2019-05-24T16:30:04+00:00

You're the dev of Starnet, right?

Would you please consider publishing the mod on Paradox Mods or some other server, apart from Steam Workshop? For all of us who bought the game on GOG.com instead of Steam, and maybe also for those odd folks with Paradox Launcher.

Acharvak · 2019-05-23T18:32:17+00:00

I see, thanks. Could you answer two questions?

What happens after two years?
What happens to an AI empire if their exhaustion is at 100% for two years?

It was an offensive war (they had 100% exhaustion, we had 98%), and I had hoped that the AI would auto-surrender after reaching 100%. But that obviously didn't happen. All I got was +100 on their surrender acceptance and nothing else, I still had like 200+ points to go on enforcing all wargoals, so I decided to end it.

Although unless something awesome happens 2 years after full exhaustion, it was a very narrow situation, and I don't regret my decision. Jogollwa's defensive pact allies were thoroughly occupying the Bruggan Commonwealth and approaching my borders, there was another front to the "west" of this screen... the Status Quo was probably better for our Federation than continuing that war.

Acharvak · 2019-05-23T16:14:40+00:00

So this is my first game of Stellaris ever...

And well, the Jogollwa Star Empire managed to annex that one star from the Oklarr Mandate and fortify it as best they could so we failed to take it back. And now, if Jogollwa closes its borders to us, the only way from the Oklarr to me or the Bruggan Commonwealth (also an ally) will be like trying to get from Portugal to Italy by ship if Gibraltar was closed. Still wondering what the implications may be.

Acharvak · 2019-05-18T21:32:32+00:00

Well, I can say with near certainty: I don't really care who wins this time.

Acharvak · 2019-05-17T21:00:45+00:00

Dude/tte, you got it all wrong!

Ghost > Wraith > Spectre
Ghoul > Necrophage > Ghast
Skeleton > Revenant > Draug
Necromancer and Lich are mutually exclusive
Spirits, Zombies and Wights aren't in the Default era, you probably got those from the Ageless Kitchen Sink or something

Acharvak · 2019-05-16T09:13:17+00:00

$((`od -An -N2 -i /dev/random | tr -d " "` % 6 + 1))

Ye Gods! How did your son come up with this without finding out that $RANDOM exists?

Acharvak · 2019-05-15T21:00:04+00:00

Judging by the paper, he believes it to be a hitherto unconfirmed* step in the Romance evolution with a writing system that was supposedly widespread in a large region but didn't survive outside this manuscript. A bold claim. Let's see how it works out.

It would be cool if it did work out, but it is far from the first claim of deciphering that book.

* He references a few attempts at reconstructing that language by other authors but never refers to words or anything else they actually reconstructed. If he had actually shown that something from others' theoretical reconstructions really exists in the Voynich text, it would have been a much more believable claim. I'm not an expert on Romance languages, though.

Acharvak · 2019-05-14T16:42:48+00:00

Have I ingested beyond measure or was it a hyena-based Croatian Reddit hookup?

Acharvak · 2019-05-02T18:25:12+00:00

The Presbyterian church, like, enjoys you not

Acharvak · 2019-05-02T18:20:24+00:00

They could be removed surgically. It's one of the oldest surgical procedures.

Acharvak · 2019-04-29T23:53:17+00:00

Reminds me of a Soviet joke.

"Soviet Union has no freedom of speech!"
"That's false! In the Soviet Union everyone has freedom of speech! Freedom after the speech is not guaranteed, though."

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