Ciro Santilli (三西猴)

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Ciro Santilli is a male human software engineer and activist born in Brazil, Earth in 1989 AD.

Quick facts:

Nationalities: Italian and Brazilian
Grew up in: Brazil
Relationship status 2017-: married
Chinese name: 三西猴, means "three western monkeys". Phonetic approximation to SANtilli CIRO. Semi-unintentionally reminds Chinese people of Sun Wukong (孙悟空). Given by Ciro Santilli's wife, then girlfriend, as a semi-joke, and he took it up because the best way to take a joke is to go with the joker.
Laptop: high end Lenovo ThinkPad
distro: latest Ubuntu release
Vim or Emacs: Vim. But for The Love, will someone please make an open source C++ integrated development environment that actually just works?
Tabs or spaces: spaces
Mailing list or Git(Hub|Lab): Git(Hub|Lab), with passion, see Section "Mailing list"
System or unit tests: system
programming languages: python and C++. He'll learn Rust and Haskell once he's rich.
Musical instruments to listen: Chinese Guqin and electric Jazz-fusion guitar
Metric or imperial: metric, for The Love. Science? Standardization?
QWERTY or Dvorak: QWERTY, alas

Figure 1. 19th century illustration of the Journey to the West protagonist Sun Wukong. Source. Sun Wukong (孙悟空) is a playful and obscenely powerful monkey Journey to the West. He protects a Buddhist monk, and likes eating fruit, just like Ciro. Oh, and Goku from Dragon Ball is based on him. His Japanese name is "Sun Wukong" (same Chinese characters with different Japanese pronunciation) for the love. His given name "Wukong" means literally "the one who mastered the void", which is fucking awesome.

Table of contents | 514, 53k, 175
- Sponsor Ciro Santilli | 20 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit
- 2. The most important projects done by Ciro Santilli | 155, 4k, 4 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Ciro Santilli"
- 3. The most important projects Ciro Santilli wants to do | 46, 2k, 4 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Ciro Santilli"
- 4. The next big thing | 109, 1k, 4 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Ciro Santilli"
- 5. The best articles by Ciro Santilli | 2k | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Ciro Santilli"
- 6. How to contact Ciro Santilli | 816 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Ciro Santilli"
- 7. Accounts controlled by Ciro Santilli | 683, 745, 1 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Ciro Santilli"
  - 7.1. Ciro Santilli's Twitter accounts | 62 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Accounts controlled by Ciro Santilli"
- 8. Cirism (Ciro Santilli's ideology) | 66, 10k, 25 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Ciro Santilli"
  - 8.1. Unconditional basic income | 421 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Cirism"
  - 8.2. Having more than one natural language is bad for the world | 1k | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Cirism"
  - 8.3. Don't be a pussy | 2k, 2k, 2 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Cirism"
    - 8.3.1. Being naughty and creative are correlated | 149 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Don't be a pussy"
    - 8.3.2. Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address | 453 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Don't be a pussy"
  - 8.4. Backward design | 485, 571, 1 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Cirism"
    - 8.4.1. How to become a good programmer? | 86 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Backward design"
  - 8.5. Free gifted education | 972 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Cirism"
  - 8.6. The side effects of ambitious goals are often the most valuable thing achieved | 317 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Cirism"
  - 8.7. Ciro Santilli's best random thoughts | 152 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Cirism"
  - 8.8. Animal rights | 815 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Cirism"
  - 8.9. University entry quotas | 876 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Cirism"
  - 8.10. Students must have a flexible choice of what to learn | 258 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Cirism"
  - 8.11. Rooting for sport teams | 448 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Cirism"
  - 8.12. Governments should provide basic Internet infrastructure | 190, 231, 1 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Cirism"
    - 8.12.1. Social media as a public utility | 41 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Governments should provide basic Internet infrastructure"
  - 8.13. There is value in tutorials written by beginners | 83 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Cirism"
  - 8.14. There is value of tutorials written by early pioneers of the field | 123 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Cirism"
  - 8.15. Cirocoin | 157 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Cirism"
  - 8.16. Good and evil | 12, 1k, 5 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Cirism"
    - 8.16.1. Evil | 719, 1k, 3 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Good and evil"
      - 8.16.1.1. Online forums that lock threads after some time are evil | 112 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Evil"
      - 8.16.1.2. Planned obsolescence | 171 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Evil"
      - 8.16.1.3. Discounts that happen more often than not | 59 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Evil"
    - 8.16.2. Good | 319 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Good and evil"
- 9. Ciro Santilli's website | 82, 2k, 13 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Ciro Santilli"
- 10. Ciro Santilli's skills | 0, 961, 2 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Ciro Santilli"
  - 10.1. Ciro Santilli's documentation superpowers | 812 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Ciro Santilli's skills"
  - 10.2. Ciro Santilli's natural languages skills | 149 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Ciro Santilli's skills"
- 11. Ciro Santilli's psychology and physiology | 663, 9k, 22 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Ciro Santilli"
- 12. Ciro Santilli's drug experiences | 617 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Ciro Santilli"
- 13. Ciro Santilli's biography | 429, 1k, 6 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Ciro Santilli"
- 14. Interesting members of the Santilli family | 210, 315, 1 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Ciro Santilli"
  - 14.1. Ciro Santilli's homonyms | 105 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Interesting members of the Santilli family"
- 15. Ciro Santilli's projects | 44, 8k, 13 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Ciro Santilli"
- 16. Essays by Ciro Santilli | 41, 581, 6 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Ciro Santilli"
  - How to blackout your window without drilling | 20 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit
  - How to teach | 20 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit
  - What poor countries have to do to get richer | 20 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit
  - 16.4. The missing link between basic and advanced | 250 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Essays by Ciro Santilli"
  - 16.5. How to write technical help requests and bug reports | 102 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Essays by Ciro Santilli"
  - 16.6. Questions for Ciro Santilli's future self | 128 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Essays by Ciro Santilli"
- 17. Ciro Santilli's hardware | 55, 8k, 54 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Ciro Santilli"
  - 17.1. Mechanical and electrical tools | 244 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Ciro Santilli's hardware"
  - 17.2. Cleaning products | 54, 72, 1 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Ciro Santilli's hardware"
    - 17.2.1. Ronseal mould killer | 18 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Cleaning products"
  - 17.3. Vacuum cleaner | 0, 75, 1 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Ciro Santilli's hardware"
    - 17.3.1. Miele C2 Complete PowerLine vacuum cleaner | 75 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Vacuum cleaner"
  - 17.4. Kitchen | 0, 271, 5 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Ciro Santilli's hardware"
    - 17.4.1. Panasonic NN-SF464M microwave (2017) | 5 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Kitchen"
    - 17.4.2. Prestige 7.5L Stainless Stell Pressure Cooker (2020) | 14 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Kitchen"
    - 17.4.3. KitchenAid Artisan toaster (2017) | 18 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Kitchen"
    - 17.4.4. Tefal rice cooker (2017) | 206 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Kitchen"
    - 17.4.5. Joyoung rice cooker (2014) | 28 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Kitchen"
  - 17.5. Houses | 0, 730, 9 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Ciro Santilli's hardware"
    - 17.5.1. House 2018-01 | 20, 730, 8 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Houses"
      - 17.5.1.1. Mould | 47 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "House 2018-01"
      - 17.5.1.2. Aluminium extractor filter | 152 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "House 2018-01"
      - 17.5.1.3. Fridge | 35 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "House 2018-01"
      - 17.5.1.4. Gas hob | 32 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "House 2018-01"
      - 17.5.1.5. Kitchen tap | 17 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "House 2018-01"
      - 17.5.1.6. Light bulbs | 208 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "House 2018-01"
      - 17.5.1.7. Toilet mirror lamps | 217 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "House 2018-01"
      - 17.5.1.8. Toilet sink | 2 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "House 2018-01"
  - 17.6. Cell phones | 0, 55, 1 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Ciro Santilli's hardware"
    - 17.6.1. Google Pixel 3a (2020) | 55 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Cell phones"
  - 17.7. Computers | 20, 599, 12 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Ciro Santilli's hardware"
    - 17.7.1. Lenovo ThinkPad P51 (2017) | 11 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Computers"
    - 17.7.2. Orange Pi PC | 54 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Computers"
    - 17.7.3. Raspberry Pis | 10, 118, 2 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Computers"
      - 17.7.3.1. Raspberry Pi 2 | 44 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Raspberry Pis"
      - 17.7.3.2. Raspberry Pi 3 | 64 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Raspberry Pis"
    - 17.7.4. Computer accessories | 0, 396, 6 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Computers"
      - 17.7.4.1. Internet speed | 23 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Computer accessories"
      - 17.7.4.2. External storage | 0, 285, 3 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Computer accessories"
        
        17.7.4.2.1. Toshiba MK1059GSM | 32 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "External storage"
        
        17.7.4.2.2. Western Digital WD10EADS-42P6B0 | 25 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "External storage"
        
        17.7.4.2.3. Polytechnique USB flash drives | 228 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "External storage"
      - 17.7.4.3. Skullcandy Smokin' Buds 2 | 88 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Computer accessories"
  - 17.8. Bicycle | 0, 6k, 15 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Ciro Santilli's hardware"
    - 17.8.1. Bicycles | 0, 4k, 1 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Bicycle"
      - 17.8.1.1. Kross bicycle (2017) | 4k | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Bicycles"
    - 17.8.2. Bicycle products | 482, 2k, 12 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Bicycle"
  - 17.9. Shoes | 12, 44, 1 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Ciro Santilli's hardware"
    - 17.9.1. 2017-04 Nike Flex Experience RN 6 Grey running shoes | 32 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Shoes"
- 18. Ciro Santilli's cooking | 0, 254, 2 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Ciro Santilli"
  - 18.1. Roast chicken | 44 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Ciro Santilli's cooking"
  - 18.2. Roasted nuts | 210 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Ciro Santilli's cooking"

Ancestors

Ciro Santilli's Homepage | 238, 147k, 2k

Incoming links

108 Stars of Destiny | 19
Aaron Swartz | 123, 123, 1
Accounts controlled by Ciro Santilli | 683, 745, 1
Adam Curtis | 36, 118, 4
Affirmative action | 34
AI training games | 28, 30, 2
Alan Watts | 95
Amazon Prime Video | 46
Andrew Dotson YouTube channel | 32
Animal rights | 815
Animations of molecular biology processes | 216
ANSI art | 17
The best articles by Ciro Santilli | 2k
Artificial general intelligence | 144
Assembly language | 39, 39, 1
Backward design | 485, 571, 1
Being naughty and creative are correlated | 149
Brain-computer interfaces could be the next big thing | 140
Brazil | 126, 1k, 7
Break the meta | 238
Buddhism | 124, 274, 4
Can't get you out of my head by Adam Curtis (2021) | 71, 82, 1
China | 55, 211, 9
Chinese cuisine | 39, 41, 1
Cirism | 66, 10k, 25
Ciro Santilli Big Five Personality traits | 156
Ciro Santilli Myers-Briggs Type Indicator | 48
Ciro Santilli's bad old event memory | 562
Ciro Santilli's campaign for freedom of speech in China | 468
Ciro Santilli's documentation superpowers | 812
Ciro Santilli's dreams | 152
Ciro Santilli's drug experiences | 617
Ciro Santilli's film tastes | 307, 601, 13
Ciro Santilli's formal education | 233
Joyoung rice cooker (2014) | 28
Ciro Santilli's homonyms | 105
Ciro Santilli's legs sometimes itch when he runs | 187
Ciro Santilli's minor projects | 593
Ciro Santilli's psychology and physiology | 663, 9k, 22
Ciro Santilli's self perceived compassionate personality | 370
Ciro Santilli's selfish desires | 359
Ciro Santilli's sport practice | 299, 3k, 4
Ciro Santilli's Stack Overflow contributions | 2k
Ciro Santilli's Stack Overflow suspension for vote fraud script 2019 | 636
Ciro Santilli's Twitter accounts | 62
Ciro Santilli's website | 82, 2k, 13
Cirocoin | 157
Classification of regular polytopes | 213
Classification of simple finite groups | 86, 133, 3
Closed source is less bad on online services | 32, 97, 1
Cocos2d | 33
Collaborative writing platform | 20, 52, 2
Concurrent Versions System | 53
How to contact Ciro Santilli | 816
Cryptocurrency | 702, 4k, 32
Csound | 492, 622, 3
Cult | 30
Cultured meat | 67, 67, 1
De novo DNA synthesis | 171, 374, 3
Deep tech | 452
DNA | 30, 2k, 32
Don't be a pussy | 2k, 2k, 2
Dream | 19
E Ink | 96, 96, 1
E-learning website | 32, 192, 1
Ecole Polytechnique | 2k
Education | 91, 3k, 61
Effortless effort | 765
Elon Musk | 9
Emulator | 40, 102, 1
Enter through the narrow gate | 75
Europe | 73, 609, 10
Excessive encapsulation is the root of much evil | 182
Express.js | 34, 163, 4
Fabrice Bellard | 216
feathers-chat PostgreSQL | 49
FFmpeg | 113, 153, 1
File manager | 30, 90, 2
France | 37, 226, 1
Free and open-source software | 97, 175, 3
Free gifted education | 972
Freedom of speech | 310, 335, 1
game-icons.net | 48
GIMP | 81
GitHub | 55, 87, 6
Globalization reduces the power of governments | 139
gnuplot | 85
Good | 319
Google | 439, 439, 3
Grinding for software interviews | 117
Hacker News | 83
How computers work? | 175
How to write technical help requests and bug reports | 102
Human brain | 133, 349, 34
Interesting members of the Santilli family | 210, 315, 1
Italy | 162
Jami | 67
Jazz fusion | 38, 53, 1
John von Neumann | 53
Karlcow/markdown-testsuite | 44
Kinesis Advantage 2 keyboard | 34
Krusader | 40
Large cohesive game world for robotic-like artificial intelligence development | 806
Lie group | 198, 1k, 19
Linux | 300, 917, 13
Linux kernel | 19, 50, 1
Linux Kernel Module Cheat | 667
Literature | 112, 123, 4
Luxury goods | 35, 35, 1
Machine learning | 78, 140, 1
Magic: The Gathering | 1k, 1k, 3
Mailing list | 694
Mamonas Assassinas | 204
Mathematician | 115, 756, 5
Mathy Magic: The Gathering thoughts | 74, 237, 1
Matplotlib | 115
Medium | 94
Meteor | 69
Microsoft Windows | 323
Millennium Prize Problems | 244, 256, 1
Molecular biology | 37, 2k, 63
Molecular biology technologies | 733
Multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle | 27
Music | 27, 4k, 63
Never trust an experiment that is not supported by a good theory | 64
Nick Lucid | 31
Nintendo 64 | 170, 212, 5
Nuclear weapon | 304, 331, 1
Numerical computing language | 103, 103, 2
Online forums that lock threads after some time are evil | 112
Open boundary condition | 109
Open knowledge | 36, 60, 1
Open source software | 371, 1k, 10
OpenGL | 22, 63, 2
OpenStax | 160
Paris | 189
Physics | 276, 25k, 429
Physics and the illusion of life | 243, 671, 3
Planned obsolescence | 171
Plasticboy/vim-markdown | 32
Polymerase chain reaction | 133, 401, 3
Popular science | 245, 330, 5
Procrastination | 16, 18, 1
QED manifesto | 25
QEMU | 62
Quantum algorithm | 193, 193, 1
Quantum computing | 80, 1k, 22
Quantum computing could be the next big thing | 72
Quantum electrodynamics | 640, 2k, 18
Quantum field theory in a nutshell by Anthony Zee (2010) | 78
Quantum mechanics | 170, 11k, 165
Radioactive decay | 51, 365, 10
Ranger | 20
Real-time attack speedrun | 188
Reddit | 23
Religion | 70, 588, 23
Renormalization | 76, 133, 5
Reply to Stack Overflow is doomed posts | 135
Ridiculous cases of political correctness censorship | 37, 306, 3
Ron Maimon | 711
Rooting for sport teams | 448
Ruby on Rails | 137, 358, 2
Santos, São Paulo, Brazil | 474
Sao Paulo City | 118, 444, 1
Sao Remo, the favela next to USP | 573
Science is the reverse engineering of nature | 94
Scientific visualization software | 20, 240, 7
Self-directed learning | 17
Shakacode/react_on_rails | 143
Silk Road | 652, 652, 1
Simple DirectMedia Layer | 53
Social inequality | 162, 196, 4
Social media as a public utility | 41
Software engineer | 48, 656, 12
Sport | 36, 36, 8
Stack Overflow | 118, 3k, 16
Stack Overflow content deletion | 78
Stack Overflow users Ciro Santilli dislikes | 102
Stephen Hawking | 123
Steve Jobs | 219, 382, 5
Steve Wozniak plays magic the gathering | 39
Students must have a flexible choice of what to learn | 258
Suikoden | 218
Super Mario 64 | 36, 42, 1
Survey of open source interactive plotting software with a 10 million point scatter plot benchmark by Ciro Santilli | 15
Systems programming | 40, 2k, 34
The beauty of mathematics | 257, 548, 4
The best popular Brazilian music (MPB) of all time | 829, 1k, 2
The best websites of all time | 97, 143, 1
The bullying of young Ciro Santilli | 352
The correlation between software engineers and Buddhism | 159
The deplatforming of Donald Trump | 60
The development cycle time is your God | 181
The Matrix (1999) | 39
The missing link between basic and advanced | 250
The most important projects done by Ciro Santilli | 155, 4k, 4
The next big thing | 109, 1k, 4
There is value in tutorials written by beginners | 83
There is value of tutorials written by early pioneers of the field | 123
Think different | 153, 177, 1
ThinkPad | 303
Twitter | 23
Ubuntu | 162
Unconditional basic income | 421
University | 358, 3k, 23
University entry quotas | 876
University of Sao Paulo | 23, 596, 2
Unmigrated sections of the old version of Ciro Santilli's website | 93
ViaScience | 84
Video game | 483, 2k, 38
Videos of all key physics experiments | 448
Water Margin | 24, 43, 1
Wealth tax | 229
Web archiving | 51, 64, 3
Website front-end for a mathematical formal proof system | 718
Why are complex numbers used in the Schrodinger equation? | 45
WikiWikiWeb | 84
YouTube | 384, 595, 6