Things are getting back to normal in a way. People rented games for 8/16-bit consoles from video rental stores commonly. These days it’s common for people playing on consoles to buy, play through and sell games because there are no such stores anymore.
Labor is relatively cheap despite how much IT is raking in at the moment. Most developers in Poland are registered as sole proprietors which contributes to one of highest rates of self-employment in Europe (source). Tax system favors those over regular work contracts leading to regressive burden (source) and to the point we could be classified as tax haven. Also means those developers are not covered under normal labor protection.
Disproving them won’t even change antivaxer minds but it’s more about not being caught off-guard by bullshit. Education won’t fix it either. Those magical thinking movements are built on ruling elites being being proven untrustworthy time and time again.
It takes no effort to come up with made up antivax lines of reasoning since they don’t have to be true. Disproving them takes much more effort so it’s worth knowing the most common ones.
Dang, I haven’t heard of this before and I still play Settlers II via Return to the Roots. Genuine thanks for sharing.
They could get on with BG3 = DOS3 thing and just go ahead with Divinity: Original Sin 4 for their next title.
I ended up playing my physical copies way less than digital ones because I can’t be arsed to juggle disks and cartridges.
I sold most of my physical collection when upgrading from PS4 to XSX and bought those games digital there since Microsoft has proven to be solid when it comes to backwards compatibility.
All of my portable consoles (Switch, Vita, DSi, N3DS, Analogue Pocket) are jailbroken and digital only because memory is so cheap that I can hold all noteworthy games on a single SD card. In time current systems will end up in a similar state so there’s little point getting attached to dust collecting boxes.
Whatever you do, usually as long as the data frame fits in memory it should be pretty fast. Depending on functions you’re using applymap on splices of columns might be faster but code readability will suffer.
How big is your dataset? If it’s huge or your need are complex you’ll get way more performance by switching from Pandas to Polars dataframes rather than trying to optimize Pandas operations.
TIL Ada Spark is a whole different thing from Apache Spark and I can’t even complain about Ada one because it predates Apache one by 15 years.
Long history would imply continuity, not "so long ago that nobody in the comment section is old enough to have lived through it".
Every piece of hardware in a given budget is ultimately a product of compromise. 3D capabilities of N64 are way beyond what PS can offer - texture filtering and Z buffer just put Playstation to shame. No CD is equally embarrassing to N64. The controller… well, it was a weird time.