The answer is: binary, sometimes with electrical switches.

As late as the very early 1980’s, the PDP-11 could be started by entering a small bootstrap program into memory, using the machine’s front panel:

You toggle the switches to make the binary pattern you want at a specific location in RAM, then hit another button to store it. Repeat until the bootstrap is in RAM, and then press start to run the program from that first address. Said start address is always some hardwired starting location.

And that’s a LATE example. Earlier (programmable) systems had other mechanisms for hard-wired or manual input like this. Go back far enough and you have systems that are so fixed-function in nature that it’s just wired to do one specific job.

Goddamn. That might actually be worth it.

Well, now I wanna know. How much money is worth life-altering injuries, including a concussion?

Yeah, all I know are the occasional bits and pieces that wash up here on Lemmy. I knew he was bad news, but I didn’t know he was a trumper. Wow.

Some times, the old ways are best.

Eh, I didn’t have to get every last set, but the ones that were too rusted/gunked to work… yeah. I’m almost a contortionist and some of those were complete bastards to install. Everywhere the Makita didn’t fit, yeah, hand-cramp city.

I know it’s not in-line with the latest kitchen trends but holy cow is this a functional workspace. You don’t “prepare meals” here. You build cuisine in a space like this.

Have you got any cabinet modifications you have done to make everything easier?

New-old house this year. Drawer slides and drawer-pulls were first to go. All were sticky, impossible to clean, and didn’t work half the time.

Every time.

I have left this as an exercise for the reader.

Fixed:

Two more days and I’m out, and not looking back.

Honestly, that sounds like it’s for the best. Regardless of how you came off, or the obvious IT security shitshow this is, your co-workers don’t exactly have your back. And it kind of looks like your manager is burned out and/or apathetic to how bad onboarding is. So, you basically have no reliable support which is crucial for newbies. That’s not a high bar for excellence, it’s a recipe for a “cover your tracks and hide your mistakes” culture. I guarantee there are skeletons hidden everywhere.

That may all be circumstantial, but consider the next time something breaks or there’s an emergency. How will this team behave? Will there be a post-mortem analysis? If there is, would it be blameless? Is there enough power/responsibility on that team to tank the company if something goes wrong? Is your boss in hot water and the team at risk? Is the team thought of well by the rest of the company or are they viewed as incompetent? The behaviors you describe suggest a longer story of bad moves and you might be fleeing a house on fire without knowing it.

Oh, and the most essential question of all to ask: why was this position open in the first place?

If there was ever an episode I wish just happened in the holodeck, it’s this one.

Heck, maybe a fan edit? Like Barclay and folks are attempting to simulate what Voyager is going through back on earth and it ends with “uh… salamanders? Really?!”

I think we need to leave the trash (bin) talk to the Cybermen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPnwWFAGPIw

If I had one, I’d never leave.

Between VR and AI, we’re getting closer every day. You might wanna re-think grabbing the new Steam Frame.

That’s one (of many) great things about Stargate. Not only did it perfect the classic Trek formula, it had good chunk of the same cast, and a bunch of actors from other trek-inspired sci-fi shows.

I cannot overstate the impact the mid-nineties had on GPAs across the board.

This picture doesn’t even show the full depth and breadth of the PC market at the time. Arcades had some strong offerings at this time, too.

But we do have a QA department. I’ll leave it to the reader to decide if that’s humane or not.

Honestly, a Japanese-style capsule hotel and net cafe would probably do very well in a university environment.

Granted, that’s still charging people for homelessness, which doesn’t help any of the underlying problems. It’s just slightly less dystopian since it’s cheap.

Same here. At first, I thought I was going to get a better Discord experience with the dedicated ‘app’. Nope. Another web app crammed into Electron, multiplying the overall browser footprint on my system. It now happily lives on in a normal browser tab where my ad blockers and user-scripts claw back local control of things.

Hey, kudos for finding multiple anti-patterns all in one place like that. I didn’t even think about “underpowered desktop as company server” as another pattern, but here we are.

Sorry you didn’t get the contract, but that sounds like a blessing in disguise to be honest.