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

@jordyd googled it and found a salt mine