<![CDATA[FUN FACT: the "nano" prefix ultimately descends from Ancient Greek "nanos", which means "dwarf".]]>FUN FACT: the "nano" prefix ultimately descends from Ancient Greek "nanos", which means "dwarf".

Consequently, translating "nanotechnology" as "dwarven machinery" is arguably defensible.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/d84c576c-1a62-40b4-899d-9de9fb96db2c/fun-fact-the-nano-prefix-ultimately-descends-from-ancient-greek-nanos-which-means-dwarf-.RSS for NodeWed, 08 Apr 2026 13:39:15 GMTSun, 29 Mar 2026 08:10:48 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to FUN FACT: the "nano" prefix ultimately descends from Ancient Greek "nanos", which means "dwarf". on Sun, 29 Mar 2026 17:26:30 GMT]]>@rygorous I will borrow this for dad joke round. Also, this tracks ๐Ÿ˜…

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toot.lv/users/peteriskrisjanis/statuses/116313632938357848https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toot.lv/users/peteriskrisjanis/statuses/116313632938357848Sun, 29 Mar 2026 17:26:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to FUN FACT: the "nano" prefix ultimately descends from Ancient Greek "nanos", which means "dwarf". on Sun, 29 Mar 2026 17:25:54 GMT]]>@corpsmoderne

Electrical engineers should probably be called that.

@rygorous

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.sdf.org/users/argv_minus_one/statuses/116313630600014750https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.sdf.org/users/argv_minus_one/statuses/116313630600014750Sun, 29 Mar 2026 17:25:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to FUN FACT: the "nano" prefix ultimately descends from Ancient Greek "nanos", which means "dwarf". on Sun, 29 Mar 2026 17:06:48 GMT]]>@rygorous
And you still see that in modern spanish, where "dwarf" is "enano".

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://masto.nobigtech.es/users/jlperuyero/statuses/116313555470457756https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://masto.nobigtech.es/users/jlperuyero/statuses/116313555470457756Sun, 29 Mar 2026 17:06:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to FUN FACT: the "nano" prefix ultimately descends from Ancient Greek "nanos", which means "dwarf". on Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:56:38 GMT]]>@rygorous sounds like someone has been doing some uncleftish beholding. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncleftish_Beholding

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://retro.social/users/ajroach42/statuses/116313515523072377https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://retro.social/users/ajroach42/statuses/116313515523072377Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:56:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to FUN FACT: the "nano" prefix ultimately descends from Ancient Greek "nanos", which means "dwarf". on Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:48:13 GMT]]>@rygorous

"โ€ฆthe 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 Pratchett

This is all I hear when we see crystals being used by engineers in modern technology vs. being used in healing woo.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://floss.social/users/doctormo/statuses/116313482410817891https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://floss.social/users/doctormo/statuses/116313482410817891Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:48:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to FUN FACT: the "nano" prefix ultimately descends from Ancient Greek "nanos", which means "dwarf". on Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:26:31 GMT]]>@rygorous Interesting! The Spanish word for dwarf is โ€œenano.โ€ I never thought of the Greek connection, since so few words of Greek origin made it into Spanish without a Latin intermediary.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://deacon.social/users/ossobuffo/statuses/116313397095586969https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://deacon.social/users/ossobuffo/statuses/116313397095586969Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:26:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to FUN FACT: the "nano" prefix ultimately descends from Ancient Greek "nanos", which means "dwarf". on Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:11:34 GMT]]>@rygorous The programming them is rune magic, too! Except the stuff it's written on doesn't even physically exist.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://masto.brightfur.net/users/IceWolf/statuses/116313338315608154https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://masto.brightfur.net/users/IceWolf/statuses/116313338315608154Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:11:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to FUN FACT: the "nano" prefix ultimately descends from Ancient Greek "nanos", which means "dwarf". on Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:47:50 GMT]]>@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

favicon

FediScience.org (fediscience.org)

It's a magical world...

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fediscience.org/users/martinvermeer/statuses/116313244984448005https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fediscience.org/users/martinvermeer/statuses/116313244984448005Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:47:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to FUN FACT: the "nano" prefix ultimately descends from Ancient Greek "nanos", which means "dwarf". on Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:24:10 GMT]]>@argv_minus_one @rygorous it's a shame computer people aren't called electromancers ๐Ÿ˜ข

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mamot.fr/users/corpsmoderne/statuses/116313151934532381https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mamot.fr/users/corpsmoderne/statuses/116313151934532381Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:24:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to FUN FACT: the "nano" prefix ultimately descends from Ancient Greek "nanos", which means "dwarf". on Sun, 29 Mar 2026 14:08:34 GMT]]>@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."

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://vis.social/users/wcbdata/statuses/116312854639146017https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://vis.social/users/wcbdata/statuses/116312854639146017Sun, 29 Mar 2026 14:08:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to FUN FACT: the "nano" prefix ultimately descends from Ancient Greek "nanos", which means "dwarf". on Sun, 29 Mar 2026 13:47:19 GMT]]>@rygorous in between electrical fields send messages between different inscribed rocks at almost Lightspeed. Still magical.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://darmstadt.social/users/claudius/statuses/116312771125707350https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://darmstadt.social/users/claudius/statuses/116312771125707350Sun, 29 Mar 2026 13:47:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to FUN FACT: the "nano" prefix ultimately descends from Ancient Greek "nanos", which means "dwarf". on Sun, 29 Mar 2026 13:42:03 GMT]]>@rygorous you just described Italian.

Nano: same word.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/renatoram/statuses/116312750393194268https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/renatoram/statuses/116312750393194268Sun, 29 Mar 2026 13:42:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to FUN FACT: the "nano" prefix ultimately descends from Ancient Greek "nanos", which means "dwarf". on Sun, 29 Mar 2026 11:49:53 GMT]]>@rygorous Ooohh now I wanty computer to have the cool art deco design that they used for dwarven archtecture in skyrim ๐Ÿ˜„

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.art/ap/users/115955865599844180/statuses/116312309364947633https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.art/ap/users/115955865599844180/statuses/116312309364947633Sun, 29 Mar 2026 11:49:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to FUN FACT: the "nano" prefix ultimately descends from Ancient Greek "nanos", which means "dwarf". on Sun, 29 Mar 2026 11:35:33 GMT]]>@rygorous YES, YEEEEES

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/Ronflaix/statuses/116312252988011147https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/Ronflaix/statuses/116312252988011147Sun, 29 Mar 2026 11:35:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to FUN FACT: the "nano" prefix ultimately descends from Ancient Greek "nanos", which means "dwarf". on Sun, 29 Mar 2026 11:26:18 GMT]]>@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

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://transfem.social/notes/akf8mqmov7ru000bhttps://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://transfem.social/notes/akf8mqmov7ru000bSun, 29 Mar 2026 11:26:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to FUN FACT: the "nano" prefix ultimately descends from Ancient Greek "nanos", which means "dwarf". on Sun, 29 Mar 2026 10:36:01 GMT]]>@giacomo https://wizardzines.com/zines/wizard/ (by @b0rk)

@argv_minus_one @rygorous

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/das_g/statuses/116312018848528078https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/das_g/statuses/116312018848528078Sun, 29 Mar 2026 10:36:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to FUN FACT: the "nano" prefix ultimately descends from Ancient Greek "nanos", which means "dwarf". on Sun, 29 Mar 2026 10:34:34 GMT]]>@rygorous @tarmil your joke sounded totally natural in Italian and Spanish ๐Ÿ™‚

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/luigirenna/statuses/116312013172661726https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/luigirenna/statuses/116312013172661726Sun, 29 Mar 2026 10:34:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to FUN FACT: the "nano" prefix ultimately descends from Ancient Greek "nanos", which means "dwarf". on Sun, 29 Mar 2026 10:18:23 GMT]]>@rygorous Funfact if you add an "e" at the beginning of "nano", you have "enano*", which is the spanish word for "dwarf"

*probably but not enterily sure to have the same root.

Edit: I just look the word in the dictionary and it is indeed the same root, so apparently there is no joke xD. (From the latin "nanus", and "nanus" from the greek "nanos")

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ohai.social/users/Erebus_Amauro/statuses/116311949544915200https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ohai.social/users/Erebus_Amauro/statuses/116311949544915200Sun, 29 Mar 2026 10:18:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to FUN FACT: the "nano" prefix ultimately descends from Ancient Greek "nanos", which means "dwarf". on Sun, 29 Mar 2026 10:07:25 GMT]]>@rygorous so weโ€™re all developing to a steampunk ageโ€ฆ kinda?
Count me in!

/cc @jakehamilton

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://indiepocalypse.social/users/heals/statuses/116311906451004006https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://indiepocalypse.social/users/heals/statuses/116311906451004006Sun, 29 Mar 2026 10:07:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to FUN FACT: the "nano" prefix ultimately descends from Ancient Greek "nanos", which means "dwarf". on Sun, 29 Mar 2026 09:26:20 GMT]]>@argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org

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 that most people trust!

@rygorous@mastodon.gamedev.place
]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://snac.tesio.it/giacomo/p/1774776380.088032https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://snac.tesio.it/giacomo/p/1774776380.088032Sun, 29 Mar 2026 09:26:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to FUN FACT: the "nano" prefix ultimately descends from Ancient Greek "nanos", which means "dwarf". on Sun, 29 Mar 2026 09:20:44 GMT]]>@tarmil @rygorous the greek to french pipeline

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/lritter/statuses/116311722854795295https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/lritter/statuses/116311722854795295Sun, 29 Mar 2026 09:20:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to FUN FACT: the "nano" prefix ultimately descends from Ancient Greek "nanos", which means "dwarf". on Sun, 29 Mar 2026 08:44:13 GMT]]>@rygorous
> There's magic everywhere
> Just be aware
- From the Blind Guardian song "Straight Through the Mirror"

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mathstodon.xyz/users/totientfunction/statuses/116311579231564241https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mathstodon.xyz/users/totientfunction/statuses/116311579231564241Sun, 29 Mar 2026 08:44:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to FUN FACT: the "nano" prefix ultimately descends from Ancient Greek "nanos", which means "dwarf". on Sun, 29 Mar 2026 08:40:56 GMT]]>@rygorous
sounds like golemancy

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.io/users/wolf480pl/statuses/116311566342602269https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.io/users/wolf480pl/statuses/116311566342602269Sun, 29 Mar 2026 08:40:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to FUN FACT: the "nano" prefix ultimately descends from Ancient Greek "nanos", which means "dwarf". on Sun, 29 Mar 2026 08:37:57 GMT]]>@rygorous Yeah that's how it usually goes.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.tarmil.fr/users/tarmil/statuses/116311554650822081https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.tarmil.fr/users/tarmil/statuses/116311554650822081Sun, 29 Mar 2026 08:37:57 GMT