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Isn’t it good that it spins up without no way of stopping it? Why would it be a problem that we do have a way of stopping it?
by cortesoft 4mo ago
Isn’t it good that it spins up without no way of stopping it? Why would it be a problem that we do have a way of stopping it?
- tom_ 4mo agoThis question is answered by the post? There is reportedly actually no way of stopping it happen. Perhaps the poster had a brain fart while typing it. Maybe they speak a different dialect of English from you.
- echelon_musk 4mo agoThere's no dialect of English in which this is correct.
- tom_ 4mo agoThat could be true, but I don't think I'd bet on it myself.
- antonvs 4mo agoGood call. The original comment is making fun of the incorrect double negative. “Without no way” means there is a way.
- tom_ 4mo agoMany kinds of double negative are acceptable in many English dialects, and are interpreted as emphasis. The negatives add, rather than multiply. (Though I admit I myself don't speak such a dialect, hence the equivocation.)
- antonvs 4mo agoThis particular instance is not valid in normal English.
- tomjakubowski 4mo agoShakespeare himself uses the double negative for emphasis, FFS. It never was, nor never will be incorrect.
- antonvs 4mo agoIt's not incorrect in general, but in this particular case, it certainly is. Do you need me to explain why?
- badc0ffee 4mo agoAin't no way.
- kenjackson 4mo agoI agree. Why is this a problem?
- jeppebemad 4mo agoOp is nitpicking on the poorly written title. I came here to find that comment :)
- ihsw 4mo ago[dead]
- KolmogorovComp 4mo agoAll your RAM are belong to us
- magicalhippo 4mo ago> Claude Desktop spins up a VM without no way of stopping it I frequently make this error when I talk. My brain thinks of different ways to phrase what I want to say, but when I speak it starts with one and finishes with another. The result is almost always wrong in the way the title is, ie some variant of a double negation. Sometimes it happens when I type, though I try to read it multiple times so often catch it.
- xp84 4mo agoWhen you realize that in some languages, for instance, in Spanish, double-negatives are not just tolerated, but correct, it helps you to let go of this particular type of pedantry when it accidentally appears in an English sentence.