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Reading about emacs' autosave and backup features I was like "that doesn't really seem necessary, why is this a default feature?" and now, after this morning's "echo > bloop" fiasco, the feature seems /extremely/ reasonable
@kimdanes disk space is very cheap on desktops, especially for plain text
@jordyd I meant considering back when it first came onto the scene. I wasn't alive, but I hear the ram, etc was NOT cheap
@kimdanes they called it
Eight
Megabytes
And
Constantly
Swapping
or so I’m told
@kimdanes “Elsewhere Maybe Alternative Civilizations Survive” is my favorite
@jordyd it's originally a full email correspondence from the 80s: https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/gnuemacs.acro.exp.html
@kimdanes beautiful
@jordyd googled it and found a salt mine