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by svantana 62 days ago
Hedonic treadmill. Once he's approaching that zettaflops, he'll want a yottaflops.
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A need was felt to add ronna— and quetta— prefixes in 2022:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_prefix

In 2025 we got robi— and quebi—:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix

As a Tolkien enjoyer, I'll wait for the quenyaflops.
geohot definitely ticks the box for “so ambitious he occasionally sounds unhinged”.
There are two ways to be unhappy. Not getting what you want and getting what you want.