[–] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

No, work done only cares about the start and the end. What happened in-between doesn't matter.

In this case, the kinetic energy is 0 at the start and end, but the potential energy of the mass increased by mgh. 5 kg * 9.81 m/s^2^ * 2 m = 98.1 J (1 J = 1 N•m).

It's not as easy as applying work = force * sloped distance, since she's not simply accelerating the mass. If she did, it would have horizontal kinetic energy at the end. She's stopping it too (well, the friction is stopping it, but we're ignoring friction).

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago*

    10x probe with 2v per division setting only showing 9.81V

    The scope is clipping (limiting the voltage to protect the internal ADC). Notice CH1 in the bottom left is red. You can fix this by increasing the voltage scale

    The OpenHantek6022 manual describes the limits of each voltage scale setting

    Edit: I have exactly the same scope. If you need any help, you can reach out to me

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago*

    There are plenty of ways to sandbox it. Treat it as an employee, i.e. give it its own user account, use cgroups, API tokens with custom permissions, etc. Unfortunately, the defaults aren't very secure. And I'm sure most users will just stick with the defaults

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  • [–] 55 points 9 months ago (22 children)

    What's worse is that there are modern alternatives that can process hundreds of transactions per second without any mining at all

    But Bitcoin people don't care about that because they don't use Bitcoin for actual payments, they use the price to pump their bags

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