[from mainstream "lost all his/her marbles"] The minimum needed to
build your way further up some hierarchy of tools or abstractions.
After a bad system crash, you need to determine if the machine has
enough marbles to come up on its own, or enough marbles to allow a
rebuild from backups, or if you need to rebuild from scratch. "This
compiler doesn't even have enough marbles to compile {hello world}."
[glossary]