Fabian GiesenFUN FACT: the "nano" prefix ultimately descends from Ancient Greek "nanos", which means "dwarf".
Consequently, translating "nanotechnology" as "dwarven machinery" is arguably defensible.
Ninad PundalikAs 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)
ARGVMI~1.PIF
Giacomo Tesio@[email protected]
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!
@[email protected]
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!
@[email protected]
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Marc@argv_minus_one @rygorous it's a shame computer people aren't called electromancers 😢
Wolf480pl
Fiona Ebner@rygorous
> There's magic everywhere
> Just be aware
- From the Blind Guardian song "Straight Through the Mirror"
> There's magic everywhere
> Just be aware
- From the Blind Guardian song "Straight Through the Mirror"
Gwen the Loitering Fox 
@rygorous 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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Orangenoel@kleines_z @gwenthefops @rygorous
Well, that's not casting a spell, that's summoning a demon...
Claudius
Martin Vermeer FCD@rygorous And we ride flying machines over the ocean while doing it. And this
https://fediscience.org/@martinvermeer/111782633809967989
It's a magical world...
Frost, wolf of winter 🐺🎄
@rygorous The programming them is rune magic, too! Except the stuff it's written on doesn't even physically exist.
HighlandLawyer
Moritz Negwer@rygorous and when we power them with fossil fuels, we use the heat of a long-bygone sunshine, captured in decaying jungles whose rotting remains were trapped in caverns under the ground for untold eons, then dug up and burnt to make artificial lightning... More than a bit of necromancy in fossil fuel, if you ask me
HolgerPieta@rygorous Any technology discernible from magic is not sufficiently advanced.