I think that Blindsight is a much tighter story with great horror (existential or otherwise) elements, and the consciousness themes were outstanding.

I liked Echopraxia, but the concept of the god-virus is not as fleshed out. Still the treatment of Portia spiders by itself make the book worthy of a read.

After reading your comment, I visited a synopsis of Echopraxia, because, I realized, I could remember almost nothing of it -- only a few snapshots of a space station and vampiric predation. Turns out it left almost no imprint on my brain. Blindsight is, I agree, much tighter (and thus, for me apparently, more memorable). Looking back on Echopraxia, I wonder whether it suffers, as Children of Time*, I think, does, from trying too hard to expand its established universe.

The god virus really is a fun idea -- more of Watts' one-man war on the tree of life (not only is God not at the top some metaphysical/ontological hierarchy; it's at the very bottom) -- but, in retrospect, I think you're right that it's not as well developed as it could have been or maybe needed to be.

The sunflower cycle (which FFR is part of) is positively optimistic compared to the rifters universe. Which is also a great read.

Nested if, aside from being awful, doesn't scale.

And break is extremely thin sugar on top of go-to.

On the other hand batteries energy capacity is commonly rated in Watt hour.

Watt*day is a perfectly cromulent energy statement although a bit misleading.

Watt*day is weird, but at least unit of energy. Watts a day is not.

Really common mistake in general to use kWh as a kW. Watthour is unit of energy. As watt is energy by time period. So you get back to units of energy.

Technically watt/day could be change in power consumption.

Any virtual memory manipulation will have massive overhead.

At this point, capital controls might be back on the menu?

> The only scenario I can think of is during wartime

well, it is not surprising then that war seems to be a realistic possibility at the moment.

(doesn't matter with whom, we have always been at war with Eastasia).

I prefer a world where there is no distinction between modules (or namespaces) and object, so '.' it is. (and I'm almost exclusively a C++ programmer).

Of course, penguins are birds and birds aren't real.

Oh, birds are very real. They just run on batteries.

shared-memory multiprocessing.