FUN FACT: the "nano" prefix ultimately descends from Ancient Greek "nanos", which means "dwarf".
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@tarmil Latin imported it as nanus, and from there on into the Romance languages, I expect
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Programmers change how the world behave through arcane words.
This is literally why I learned Pascal when I was 13: to become a powerful wizard.
Couldn't figure the horrible molochs I was going to face, trying to protect my family and friends not from evil wizards like me, but from evil almighty guilds like #BigTech that most people trust!
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As an aside, we use impossibly bright, impossibly blue light to inscribe tiny runes on sand, producing constructs that obey our commands (well, sometimes...) and communicate with us through literal liquid crystals.
This is not a fantasy setting. I'm just describing the real world
(well I'm leaving out 1000s of in-between steps, but still)
@rygorous@mastodon.gamedev.place you forgot the fact that the commands must be issued in arcane languages that no one speaks out loud but several practitioners understand, and whatever those commands say will be executed exactly as said. That's why sometimes it doesn't do what we want, because it always does what we asked it to
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FUN FACT: the "nano" prefix ultimately descends from Ancient Greek "nanos", which means "dwarf".
Consequently, translating "nanotechnology" as "dwarven machinery" is arguably defensible.
@rygorous YES, YEEEEES
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FUN FACT: the "nano" prefix ultimately descends from Ancient Greek "nanos", which means "dwarf".
Consequently, translating "nanotechnology" as "dwarven machinery" is arguably defensible.
@rygorous Ooohh now I wanty computer to have the cool art deco design that they used for dwarven archtecture in skyrim
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FUN FACT: the "nano" prefix ultimately descends from Ancient Greek "nanos", which means "dwarf".
Consequently, translating "nanotechnology" as "dwarven machinery" is arguably defensible.
@rygorous you just described Italian.
Nano: same word.
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As an aside, we use impossibly bright, impossibly blue light to inscribe tiny runes on sand, producing constructs that obey our commands (well, sometimes...) and communicate with us through literal liquid crystals.
This is not a fantasy setting. I'm just describing the real world
(well I'm leaving out 1000s of in-between steps, but still)
@rygorous in between electrical fields send messages between different inscribed rocks at almost Lightspeed. Still magical.
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FUN FACT: the "nano" prefix ultimately descends from Ancient Greek "nanos", which means "dwarf".
Consequently, translating "nanotechnology" as "dwarven machinery" is arguably defensible.
@rygorous And, as foretold, "The dwarves delved too greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dum-GPT... shadow and flame."
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@argv_minus_one @rygorous it's a shame computer people aren't called electromancers
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As an aside, we use impossibly bright, impossibly blue light to inscribe tiny runes on sand, producing constructs that obey our commands (well, sometimes...) and communicate with us through literal liquid crystals.
This is not a fantasy setting. I'm just describing the real world
(well I'm leaving out 1000s of in-between steps, but still)
@rygorous And we ride flying machines over the ocean while doing it. And this
Martin Vermeer FCD (@martinvermeer@fediscience.org)
@kithrup@wandering.shop Holding NTP in my hand as I write this
FediScience.org (fediscience.org)
It's a magical world...
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As an aside, we use impossibly bright, impossibly blue light to inscribe tiny runes on sand, producing constructs that obey our commands (well, sometimes...) and communicate with us through literal liquid crystals.
This is not a fantasy setting. I'm just describing the real world
(well I'm leaving out 1000s of in-between steps, but still)
@rygorous The programming them is rune magic, too! Except the stuff it's written on doesn't even physically exist.
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FUN FACT: the "nano" prefix ultimately descends from Ancient Greek "nanos", which means "dwarf".
Consequently, translating "nanotechnology" as "dwarven machinery" is arguably defensible.
@rygorous Interesting! The Spanish word for dwarf is “enano.” I never thought of the Greek connection, since so few words of Greek origin made it into Spanish without a Latin intermediary.
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FUN FACT: the "nano" prefix ultimately descends from Ancient Greek "nanos", which means "dwarf".
Consequently, translating "nanotechnology" as "dwarven machinery" is arguably defensible.
"…the dwarfs found out how to turn lead into gold by doing it the hard way. The difference between that and the easy way is that the hard way works."
- The Truth, Terry PratchettThis is all I hear when we see crystals being used by engineers in modern technology vs. being used in healing woo.
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FUN FACT: the "nano" prefix ultimately descends from Ancient Greek "nanos", which means "dwarf".
Consequently, translating "nanotechnology" as "dwarven machinery" is arguably defensible.
@rygorous sounds like someone has been doing some uncleftish beholding. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncleftish_Beholding
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FUN FACT: the "nano" prefix ultimately descends from Ancient Greek "nanos", which means "dwarf".
Consequently, translating "nanotechnology" as "dwarven machinery" is arguably defensible.
@rygorous
And you still see that in modern spanish, where "dwarf" is "enano". -
@argv_minus_one @rygorous it's a shame computer people aren't called electromancers
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FUN FACT: the "nano" prefix ultimately descends from Ancient Greek "nanos", which means "dwarf".
Consequently, translating "nanotechnology" as "dwarven machinery" is arguably defensible.
@rygorous I will borrow this for dad joke round. Also, this tracks
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