Margin Call hits the spot without becoming overly pompous like The Big Short. Its story is centered around Goldman Sachs.

And make no mistake Wall Street gambles full well knowing that the government will save them - Steve Bannon was right on the spot about that.

LK-99? The room temperature superconductor made by some guys in a small lab in Korea after 20 years of attempts - who doesn't want that to be real.

Won´t say people fell for it though it was just the current happening at the time.

> who doesn't want that to be real.

I think that's exactly the point the person you're responding to is calling out. That's a massive bias.

Uh… what do you call mass downvoting anything reasonably skeptical? I saw comments saying “I’ll wait until the data can be replicated to believe it” turn grey almost immediately on most threads. And after we knew it didn’t replicate it took the community the better part of a week to grieve and admit that the “it’s not a superconductor” results were real and not operator error.

As a kid of the late 90s i feel like it was kinda unfair.

Back in the day (70s(?)80s) computers shipped with the programming language manual. All I got was a CDROM of ENCARTA and a slip to mail in for a restore set of MS DOS / WIN 3.1 diskettes(which was sorely needed I might add).

In the mid 70s you got a badly mimeographed copy of the schematics and a bag of parts.

In the late 70s to early 80s you got a programming manual, but you had to save your programs on cassette tapes.

In the late 80s, you got glossy manuals which showed you how to turn on the computer, hook up a printer and load a program from DOS.

In the early 90s, the manuals were plain paper, smaller, and had instructions on how to use a mouse, and explained what a window is. Plus the mail-ins.

Mid-90s (CD-ROM "multimedia machines") you got a sheet of paper which told you to load the interactive tutorial from the included CD.

Late 90s you got 5000 hours of AOL. Plus another CD filled with co-branded crapware like CorelDraw Lite for Dell.

2000s+ crapware pre-installed, driver CD and a warranty card.

So really, the time period with the included programming manual was just a few years. And mostly all you did is print Hello World over and over again on the screen. So don't be too jealous.

Yeah. At least you got a good MSDN CD in 1999 with tons of example code and all the info you'd want on Windows.

Now we get: {{ Fill in the Description }}

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/storageb...

Good programming manuals that were delivered with the computers and with the compilers/interpreters have existed about for the entire time when MS-DOS was dominant, i.e. from the launch of IBM PC in 1981, which always had things like a commented BIOS listing, which was very instructive, and detailed documentation of all its hardware peripherals, until the mid nineties, i.e. until Windows 95.

Until the early nineties, the compilers and interpreters from companies like Borland and Microsoft came with big excellent programming manuals demonstrating how to use them.

Also any complex commercial application for MS-DOS, e.g. AutoCAD, Lotus 1-2-3, the BRIEF editor for programmers etc., would have voluminous manuals, including sections on how to write scripts in whatever embedded scripting language they were using.

Only for the users of pirated copies of MS-DOS, compilers etc., the access to manuals was more difficult and some of them may have even not been aware of what manuals were normally available for the legitimate owners. Most IBM PC clones also did not have much documentation delivered with them. Since they were made to be compatible with IBM, it was supposed that anyone who needs them will buy the original IBM manuals.

Since Windows 95, the vendors of hardware PC peripherals have stopped providing documentation for them, providing closed-source Windows device drivers instead, but before that, whenever I was buying some PC add-on card, it typically came with a manual providing enough information about control registers etc., that I was able to write an MS-DOS device driver myself, if necessary.

I wish Microsoft would bring back Encarta!!

Microsoft Dinosaurs was also awesome

Its written for people who know nothing about computers but most people who will read it knows loads.

Remember we used to have Aoe2 sessions on LANS when we were kids back in the 00s and like 1 in 3 games just crashed after everyone had played for like 2-3 hours.

In a way it was even better because then nobody had to loose, and everyone believed they were winning.

And since everyone was "turtling" the games would almost never end anyways.

That is how kids play Monopoly too. It is part of the fun :)

Yeah, I know of turtling because we used to do it ourselves! Have a pact that you can't attack in the start, then build an impenetrable city until there are basically no more resources left and then fight it off with having 10 castles and barracks and stables mass-producing units right to the front.

Why are people not using plugins like Cline?!

Cline has famously huge API token costs as it is profligate with context. Because codemcp plugs into Claude Desktop you only pay for your Claude Pro sub, similar to Cursor's pricing model

This is true and is essentially a form of arbitrage. Anthropic is eating the cost of your elevated queries with their $20 flat fee subscription.

The "famously huge API token costs" you are referring to is Cline passing the Anthropic API cost through to you with no markup. You even input your own API token.

We do, but I am transitioning towards MCPs. One thing is that it is free, and secondly, Cline don't bring that much more to the table - in Claude desktop I can also ask to implement something, and then tell it to write solution to the source code files. This in effect does the same thing as Cline, but I feel I have bit more control.

Cline also requires the use of an API key, preferably from Anthropic. I found its results to be much better than running a DeepSeek-Llama 70b locally.

Cline is great in terms of VS Code integration but was costing me about $5 an hour in API tokens working on a small two page next.js webapp.

Multiple sea landings, but I guess you'd argue those don't count since the vehicles tip over in water and explode.

Moving barges in the sea should qualify though.

A moving barge with a known flat surface of a known hardness and stability is a whole different category of difficult than doing the same thing on naturally occurring terrain with unknown voids, hardness, roughness and consistency.

Is a landing barge not "purposefully engineered to be flat"?

So what you're saying is we need to blast some barges into space and land them on the moon so we have a flat surface for starship to land on?

They also have the atmosphere, with drag that will make all velocities trend towards zero. Don’t have that on the moon, gotta do it all with fuel. More than half of the energy she’s by the returning falcon is aerobraking.

Yes, the moon has substantially less gravity but it’s also exponentially harder to get the fuel there.

"the atmosphere, with drag that will make all velocities trend towards zero"

Did you forget about gravity? Terminal velocity in free-fall is not zero!

Trend towards. The rocket is descending far faster than low altitude terminal velocity.

Most important was to have a under construction sign gif and a counter. And maybe a guestbook.

I bought an iPad in 2020, its very practical the 5 times a year I use it.

I bought an iPad pro, I have done some architectural stuff on it for rennovations, which was handy using the pen (could've just used my computer) other than that, it's a good paper weight and handy when i take a flight so I can watch a movie :)