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
@lopsigon big disks are in these days
@jordyd I like small dense disks
@lopsigon I hear the Romans did as well
@jordyd and fast disks
@jordyd
* unbridled giggling *
@lopsigon hard disks
@lopsigon somehow this wasn’t the first one I thought of and I’m ashamed
@jordyd floppy disks
@lopsigon they come in 3 1/2 in, 5 1/4 in, and 8 in
@lopsigon I’ve heard of 8 in but I’ve never actually seen one, sounds unwieldy tbh
@jordyd eyy that's like the size of a sheet of paper
@lopsigon yeah, hopefully not as thin tho
@jordyd death by a thousand floppy cuts
@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
@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 hehe you said disk