I think that depends on whether it’s solid brick or this kind of brick.
Were I live (Portugal) houses tend to be made from the latter kind of brick.
That said, even the latter kind of brick doesn’t provide as good insulation as double walls, either air gapped or (even better) with insulating foam in between, and I’ve only ever seen that used for external walls, mainly in colder (further to the North) countries in Europe.
Yeah, for good termal resistance with brick you need double walls with a gap in the middle (with air is good, with thermal insulating foam is better).
That said, I (in Europe) have never seen double walls used for internal walls.
PS: Actually I just remembered that in some places the kind of brick used is not solid but actually hollow - for example and one of the differences from this to the solid kind is exactly that these have better acoustic and thermal insulation.
Surelly somebody doing this on purpose would’ve avoided hitting a memory module.
DIMM modules cost and arm and a leg nowadays.
What a tragedy!
One of the memory modules was hit.
In today’s market.
Every dog IS a son of a bitch but not every son of a bitch is a dog.
The cat was lying: if one looks at who does all the work and who gets fed on somebody else’s work without having to do anything for it, one can only conclude that the cat is the bourgeois.
Unless we’re talking about strays or farm cats (repectivelly the poor and working class of the species)
There are probably more “Man bites dog” stories in Europe than “Dog discharges gun” stories.
OMG!
I hope it missed the RAM, Graphics Card and SSDs.
PS: Update - judging by the pictures somebody posted, the bullet hit a DIMM module. TRAGEDY!!!
Because of the First Past The Post, even a Parliamentary system in the US with the current Mathematics of how Congress or the Senate representatives are allocated from votes (i.e. single winner per electoral circle) would be still be a two party system which doesn’t represent most people.
Just look at Britain (which has a FPTP Parliamentary System) were the current party in Government has more than 50% of members of Parliament even though they got only 34% of votes and is arresting people as Terrorist Supporters for demonstrating against Britain’s support for the Genocide in Gaza, has enacted quite extreme anti-Demonstration legislation and is passing electronic communications surveillance laws similar to those in Despotic Autocracies.
Absolutelly, Presidential systems where ONE PERSON ONLY supposedly manages the nation according to the will of millions are complete total bullshit because it’s impossible that one person can reflect the preferences of millions, but Parliamentary systems with First Past The Post aren’t much better because de facto they’re generally equivalent to 2 sets of views rather than just 1 - theoretically multiple parliamentarians from the same party would mean multiple view, but my experience living in several such countries is that it’s rare for a member of parliament not to vote the same as the rest of the party in a vote - I would estimate that dissent is in average less than 5%.
Power Duopolies are better than Power Monopolies but not by much and they certainly do not represent the true breadth of political beliefs of a population of millions of people.
In countries with such systems (at least in the ones I lived in) people get trained by the Press to expect everything boils down to “one side versus a the other side”, but if you actually analyse the whole thing and think about even simple choices in groups of people (say, “we’re should we go to next?” when out with friends) and it’s very rare that even for just one thing there are only 2 prefered choices in a group with more than 2 people, so now imagine how many possibilities there are in all combinations of preferences for all the social and political choices in a country of millions.
Representative Democracy by necessity is a heavilly reduced and simplified reflection of the preferences in the society they mean to represent and those variants of it where the representation system is Mathematically Rigged to de facto reduce that representation to just two, is literally the second farthest political system from properly representing a population, with the farthest one being dictatorship.
Personally I don’t count Power Duopolies like that real Democracies: a vote alone doesn’t make something a Democracy, otherwise Russia would be a Democracy. The again I grew up in a country with a lot more open Democracy (though still far from perfect) and lived for almost a decade in one with Proportional Vote.
In the US version the left side candidade would be “Identitaria Fatcatus-Loving”, listed as:
At least the “third”-world places often have electable left of center candidates, not just Fascist vs Warmongering Hardcore Neoliberal.
Not “Western countries”, rather the “United States”.
If for example Europe was doing this, US Tech companies would have almost no market presence over here.
Militaristic “national security” arguments have very little traction in Europe, which is actually part of the reason why there was such tight coupling with Russia at the start of their invasion of Ukraine that it was a lot harder for Europe to decouple from Russia than the rest and even then Russia still kept running Propaganda Ops and financing political parties in Europe with ease.
The individual people leading those companies will be much better afterwards than when they started this shit, no matter how hard the whole thing blows up.
Who wouldn’t be willing to go through the years of founding and building, say, OpenAI, if after a decade or so you’ll at worst “just” end up a multi-millionaire, and if the Tech actually works or even if you just manage to swindle enough suckers before it all collapse, you’ll end up a billionaire.
If you consider those people as sociopath “what’s in it for me” grifters, the entire thing is totally logic because even the “market cataclysm” scenario still leaves them personally far better off than if they hadn’t done any of this and as for everybody else, well, “fuck them”.
My savings are mainly in Gold. Actual physical gold, in a vault, in Switzerland, not some kind of paper gold certificate that’s supposedly equivalent to the real thing but in fact is just a contract with a company with all the associated risks of it for a piece of paper that supposedly tracks the value of gold.
That position is a massive rejection of the entire Financial system, Gold being it’s own currency and a really old one at that - essentially I’m positioned to counter the devaluation of the very fiat currencies in which investment assets are priced, mainly because I don’t trust how they and the nations backing them are managed. (I’m in that position since 2012 and I would say that what’s going on in the US is kinda proving that view I’ve had since then). Putting money in agricultural land would be a similar position, that that has geographical (and thus country and climate) risk plus I’m not quite ready to become a prepper.
So most of my savings are literally outside any main currency such that I’m basically shorting main currencies.
(You see, I worked in the Finance Industry for almost a decade and it’s kinda like working in a sausage factory: once you see how they’re made you stop wanting to eat them)
Mind you, I have a very long investment horizon - 14 years now and counting, with a return of so far around 500% vs the EUR - and whilst Gold is currently sliding down since its all time peak at the end of January, it’s price now back to the level of the start of the year, that’s fine when one is sitting on 14 years of gains and not really aiming to take money out until retirement, since in the current fucked up deregulated shit that passes for a Financial System nowadays there will be plenty of financial crisis in the meantime and Gold invariably goes up when shit hits the fan, the worse it is the more it goes up.
If your investment horizon is shorter, things are different.
Now, outside this specific ultra-low risk position I’m in, I’m not going to advise you on specific funds - all that stuff works as legal contracts in that to really know the risks you’re taking you have to read the small print plus as we’ve seen from the changes to the Nasdaq 100 index rules, there’s even more contracts under those contracts and they can even change those from under you to fuck you up.
Obviously I’m not gonna read the small print of that for you.
So here’s a few more general things you probably should consider:
There’s this phrase from the goldbug community (yeah, I know, but sometimes even some of those fanboys have a point) which goes roughly like this: when things get rough it’s not the Return On Investment you should worry about, its the Return Of (The) Investment.
Yeah, it doesn’t make much since if you think in terms of how many transistors are needed to implement each of them as the microcontroller probably uses hundreds of thousands more transistors than a 555.
That said, given reasonably recent processes die size for both are probably pretty close (I reckon most of the size of a modern 555 die would be the points to place the wires to the package) and with pretty similar yields (pretty close to 100%)
I wouldn’t be surprised if the reason has something to do with economies of scale since a cheap microcontroller can pretty much be used for the same things as a 555 and a whole lot more than that, so it makes sense more of the former are manufactured than of the latter, plus I bet the process generation used in making the microcontroller is probably more recent and hence one where there are more fabs operating. This latter reason would also explain why this more recent 32-bit microcontroller is actually cheaper than older 8-bit ones with less built-in memory and fewer peripherals (such as the ATTiny ones).
And in 2000
And in 1997
And even in 1973
Yeah, as per the analysis I did in another post, even a 555 and a couple of transistors to just blink an LED is more expensive than putting a microcontroller like this one there.
Designing a board to run a microcontroller like that is actually pretty simple.
I’ve done it for fun with a couple similar microcontrollers, and whilst I’m an EE by training I don’t do it professionally plus my training is from before embedded system, so I count as a Junior EE for that.
I’m pretty sure that even a freshly graduate Chinese EE can even on their own figure out the general recipe for integrating something this (following the datasheet, add crystal + load caps, plus about 1 caps each power pin for power filtering plus 1 global power filtering cap, plus possibly a pull-down/up resistor on the RESET pin) in a week or two and then for subsequent projects it will be feasible to do it in a few days.
Really, there’s other shit in there (say, battery management) that’s more work to figure out than how to add and place the parts for an entry level ARM microcontroller to work.
Have you seen the price of DIMM modules nowadays?!
Jumping in front of the bullet would’ve hurt less!