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 hehe you said disk
@jordyd I like small dense disks
@lopsigon I hear the Romans did as well