FUN FACT: the "nano" prefix ultimately descends from Ancient Greek "nanos", which means "dwarf".

[totientfunction@mathstodon.xyz]

@rygorous
> There's magic everywhere
> Just be aware
- From the Blind Guardian song "Straight Through the Mirror"

[lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@tarmil @rygorous the greek to french pipeline

[giacomo@snac.tesio.it]

@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 #BigTech that most people trust!

@rygorous@mastodon.gamedev.place

[heals@indiepocalypse.social]

@rygorous so we’re all developing to a steampunk age… kinda?
Count me in!

/cc @jakehamilton

[erebus_amauro@ohai.social]

@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")

[luigirenna@infosec.exchange]

@rygorous @tarmil your joke sounded totally natural in Italian and Spanish

[das_g@chaos.social]

@giacomo https://wizardzines.com/zines/wizard/ (by @b0rk)

@argv_minus_one @rygorous

[gwenthefops@transfem.social]

@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

[ronflaix@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@rygorous YES, YEEEEES

[fissile@mastodon.art]

@rygorous Ooohh now I wanty computer to have the cool art deco design that they used for dwarven archtecture in skyrim

[renatoram@fosstodon.org]

@rygorous you just described Italian.

Nano: same word.

[claudius@darmstadt.social]

@rygorous in between electrical fields send messages between different inscribed rocks at almost Lightspeed. Still magical.

[wcbdata@vis.social]

@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."

[corpsmoderne@mamot.fr]

@argv_minus_one @rygorous it's a shame computer people aren't called electromancers

[martinvermeer@fediscience.org]

@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...

[icewolf@masto.brightfur.net]

@rygorous The programming them is rune magic, too! Except the stuff it's written on doesn't even physically exist.

[ossobuffo@deacon.social]

@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.

[doctormo@floss.social]

@rygorous

"…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 Pratchett

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

[ajroach42@retro.social]

@rygorous sounds like someone has been doing some uncleftish beholding. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncleftish_Beholding

[jlperuyero@masto.nobigtech.es]

@rygorous
And you still see that in modern spanish, where "dwarf" is "enano".