Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli 40 

ASCII art Updated 2025-07-16

It should be a crime to automatically generate ASCII art from images.

For some ASCII art in the Bitcoin blockchain see: ASCII art.

Random fun mentions:

en.wiktionary.org/wiki/roflcopter | knowyourmeme.com/memes/roflcopter
www.ludd.ltu.se/~vk/pics/ascii/junkyard/misc/who's_who.txt "Who's who in the ascii art world" contains a list of well known artists with their signatures

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3D cube plot ASCII art by Ciro Santilli (2021)

AsciiDoc Updated 2025-07-16

ASCII porn Updated 2025-07-16

ASCII porn is ASCII art depicting pornography.

Collections and overviews:

asciiart.website/index.php?art=people/naked%20ladies "Naked Ladies - Nude Women" category
- if you value medium over content, Ciro found two of the images reproduced in asciiart.website above also reproduced in the Bitcoin blockchain as described at: ASCII art, that should definitely turn you on, horny nerd
www.reddit.com/r/ASCII_porn/ on Reddit boring
www.vice.com/en/article/nepapk/ascii-pr0n-porn-predates-the-internet-but-its-still-everywhere-rule-34 ASCII Porn Predates the Internet But It's Still Everywhere by Vice News (2019)

You just couldn't resist Googling it and clicking this page, could you? You naughty, naughty bearded programmer nerd. Yes, I'm talking to you.

TODO it is quite hard to actually find non-automatically generated ASCII art of people fucking, most of them are just sexy/horny women drawn by bearded nerds, likely and based on sticky physical paper porn magazines from the 80's, good old days.

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   Tank Man                         |
   by Ciro Santilli          00     |
   2021 CC-BY-SA 4.0          \\  +-|-+
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Tank man ASCII art by Ciro Santilli (2021)

This image depicts the Chinese government fucking 1 million Chinese people in the ass during the Tiananmen Square Protests, which was undoubtedly one of the largest gang bangs of the late 20th century:

The IBM 1401 mainframe runs "Edith" by CuriousMarc

. Source. 1960's punched card ASCII porn. Vintage. EDITH is also mentioned e.g. at: www.threedee.com/jcm/aaa/index.html. No ASCII uploads found however: www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/a2pser/the_ibm_1401_mainframe_runs_edith/.

ASCII typeface Updated 2025-07-16

Tis term was invented by Ciro Santilli, it refers to ASCII art of text, essentially creating a typeface. in that medium..

A Show of Hands by Victor Wooten (1996) Updated 2025-07-16

OMG this is sick.

Full official album on YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_myUBkJ0UJbkV7O1q-hg7ONxxGBLGz4SzU. so glad he managed to upload it...

Asia Updated 2025-07-16

1914 Nobel Prize in Physics Updated 2025-07-16

Not only did this open the way for X-ray crystallography, it more fundamentally clarified the nature of X-rays as being electromagnetic radiation, and helped further establish the atomic theory.

1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Updated 2025-07-16

Asian meme Updated 2025-07-16

Asianometry Updated 2025-07-16

www.youtube.com/channel/UC1LpsuAUaKoMzzJSEt5WImw

Very good channel to learn some basics of semiconductor device fabrication!

Focuses mostly on the semiconductor industry.

youtu.be/aL_kzMlqgt4?t=661 from Video "SMIC, Explained by Asianometry (2021)" from mentions he is of Chinese ascent, ancestors from Ningbo. Earlier in the same video he mentions he worked on some startups. He doesn't appear to speak perfect Mandarin Chinese anymore though based on pronounciation of Chinese names.

asianometry.substack.com/ gives an abbreviated name "Jon Y".

Reflecting on Asianometry in 2022 by Asianometry (2022)

Source. Mentions his insane work schedule: 4 hours research in the morning, then day job, then editing and uploading until midnight. Appears to be based in Taipei. Two videos a week. So even at the current 400k subs, he still can't make a living.

As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another Updated 2025-07-16

New International Version:

Proverbs 27:17.

As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.

A Small Talent for War Updated 2025-07-16

ASM International Updated 2025-07-16

Parent/predecessor of ASML.

ASML Holding Updated 2025-07-16

As of 2020 leading makers of the most important fab photolithography equipment.

ASML: TSMC's Critical Supplier by Asianometry (2021)

Source.

Video 2.

How ASML Won Lithography by Asianometry (2021)

Source.

First there were dominant Elmer and Geophysics Corporation of America dominating the market.

Then a Japanese government project managed to make Nikon and Canon Inc. catch up, and in 1989, when Ciro Santilli was born, they had 70% of the market.

youtu.be/SB8qIO6Ti_M?t=240 In 1995, ASML had reached 25% market share. Then it managed the folloging faster than the others:

TwinScan, reached 50% market share in 2002
Immersion litography
EUV. There was a big split between EUV vs particle beams, and ASML bet on EUV and EUV won.
youtu.be/SB8qIO6Ti_M?t=459 they have an insane number of software engineers working on software for the machine, which is insanely complex. They are big on UML.
youtu.be/SB8qIO6Ti_M?t=634 they use ZEISS optics, don't develop their own. More precisely, the majority owned subsidiary Carl Zeiss SMT.
youtu.be/SB8qIO6Ti_M?t=703 IMEC collaborations worked well. Notably the ASML/Philips/ZEISS trinity

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLNsYecX_2Q ASML: Chip making goes vacuum with EUV (2009) Self promotional video, some good shots of their buildings.

Aspen HYSYS Updated 2025-07-16

Aspen Hysys Introduction by Emmanuel Oloyede (2016)

Source. Holy crap, the UI is identical to Microsoft Word with that huge top bar!!!

Assign the hard task to the lazy person Updated 2025-11-05