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