Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli 35

Quite good, Ciro Santilli played this a lot in 2021/2022, his user ID: ofo5fNy7wRNC1Cw94YVB4KMOW5f2.

The physics not as good as the original Mario Kart 64, and it is notably missing jump gliding, and generally not as sharp! But it is really not bad.

Some of the weapons were too useless that you are just better firing them straight away at wall immediately to get something better, they could have a little better balancing there. I'm talking about you gatling that takes 10 seconds to finish firing, and does not kill enemies immediately. You are better off just firing that gun immediately when you get it to be able to get another gun ASAP. They seem to have done some balancing there however.

It had no chat option, but in a way it was cool to be forced to communicate non-verbally with people whose usernames you got familiar with. Funny you can love people like that, without ever talking to them. The best way of doing so being tea-bagging by going back and forth on a player after winning.

Performance was sometimes a problem. When Ciro tried it again on December 2022, it was unplayable due to the impossibly large lag. Things were much better again in 2023 however it seems.

Looking for related games:

Poet warriors monkeys? Or Code peasants (码农) according to the Chinese.

Ciro Santilli claims to be one of them.

Much like a pianist plays his piano, a software engineer plays his computer.

Many/most microcontroller boards have analog-to-digital converters built into them, it is very convenient. E.g. it is the case for the Raspberry Pi Pico.

Too many fun skit videos for Ciro Santilli's taste, but does have some serious derivations in quantum electrodynamics.

List of handbooks open as of 2022 at: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/members/students/undergraduate-courses/teaching-and-learning/handbooks-synopses Kudos, e.g. unlike the physics course of the University of Oxford which paywalled them. 2022 one: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/system/files/attachments/UG%20Handbook%202022.pdf

The Oxford mathematics Moodle has detailed course listings, and most PDFs are not paywalled.

E.g. the 2024 course:

This is a good approach. The downside is that while you are developing the implementation and testing interactively you might notice that the requirements are wrong, and then the tests have to change.

One intermediate approach Ciro Santilli likes is to do the implementation and be happy with interactive usage, then create the test, make it pass, then remove the code that would make it pass, and see it fail. This does have a risk that you will forget to test something, but Ciro finds it is a worth it generally. Unless it really is one of those features that you are unable to develop without an automated test, generally more "logical/mathematical" stuff. This is a sort of laziness Driven Development.

He's good. Sometimes a bit repetitive, but generally pretty good.

Only the "original" videos matter. After those it became crap.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6DtVHqyYts Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing (PC) (2014) is perhaps his best video.

This is the one Ciro Santilli envies the most, because he has such a great overlap with Ciro's interests, e.g.:

Ciro Santilli used to read books when he was younger (Harry Potter up to the 4th, Lord of the Rings), but once you are reading code, technical articles and news the whole day, you really just want to watch videos of people doing useless things on YouTube to rest, enough text.

Books are slow. No patience. Need faster immediate satisfaction.

Paradoxically Ciro feels like he's becoming a writer of sorts though, one semi independent section/answer/piece of knowledge at a time.

Writing is not just giving out information. It is re-feeling it.