How do they keep track of hourly wages now? I’m out of the loop.

Very slowly, painstakingly, and carefully.

Dave’s Garage, “Why Do Mainframes Still Exist? What’s Inside One? 40TB, 200+ Cores, AI, and more!” “Dave explores the IBM z16 mainframe from design to assembly and testing. What’s inside a modern IBM z16 mainframe that makes it relevant today?”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouAG4vXFORc from https://www.youtube.com/@DavesGarage

“On the persistent rumors of the programmer’s imminent demise”: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10270-023-01136-y

Submitted article mirrors: https://archive.is/l7yZM , https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:MXnDOtatPfcJ:blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2023/11/in-bad-old-days-we-had-punchcards-how.html

Same way we dealt with rotary phones, manual transmissions, paper maps and outhouses. We made do.