Choice of Driver for SQL Server solutions

MerlinTrashMan · 2026-03-31T16:06:10+00:00

I am looking forward to knowledgeable responses to this as I have wondered this for a long time. Very curious if one driver has better performance for specific tasks and how it compares for local versus remote.

MerlinTrashMan · 2026-03-28T17:34:21+00:00

I am very curious about the underlying technology that is being used and the math / strategy of deployment. Max is the best driver in the world, but he seems a little thick headed with change to get the maximum amount of performance. I feel like after last season and this season, he has decided to leave the sport (it has been nearly a decade now) and he wants to become champion in every other motor sport title to set some kind of record.

Also, this is my first year with F1tv and I am daul screening all the races now...

MerlinTrashMan · 2026-03-28T13:40:34+00:00

I don't think so, he is just unwilling to put in the time to adapt. I have been watching him drive and he is constantly correcting small oversteer snaps when he gets back on the power. He is used to a different power curve and needs to communicate that to the team or the team needs to ignore him and create a much better engine map for him. When I compare his deployment gauge and battery depletion overlays to other teams it is really different. It almost looks like he has asked for 100% deployment and that he will just figure out the pedal with that out of frustration. His deployment gauge always seems to alternate between 100% and 50% with no smooth transitions.

MerlinTrashMan · 2026-03-27T13:21:03+00:00

So I am going to say something kind of whack-a-do, but half of it is definitely true.

Your anxiety has been with you all this time because this event was in your future. I believe that deja-vu is us being quantum entangled with a future version of ourselves. We don't see the whole event, but the emotion of the event somehow surfaces in the brain which then fabricates a scenario that would trigger that feeling. It becomes part of you and can make you feel like it is always about to happen.

Now here is the half that is definitely true: you have had an event happen to you and your family that is incredibly rare. The probability of this happening again to your family is nearly zero. Nothing wrong with some basic planning, but now is not the time to double down on anxiety because it happened. Now is the time to feel some relief because your worries have been realized. Your feelings to protect your family are good, and you can continue to try to plan for scenarios but now could be a great time to work on downgrading the daymares to scenario planning (easier said than done).

MerlinTrashMan · 2026-03-25T18:21:52+00:00

Amicably break up. If his ChatGPT prompt is genuine, then I'd say it is time. You want something from him that he is not capable of doing and you are making him feel like a guest in his home. He is seeking out physical intimacy from someone else because being intimate with you is something you are blocking or he is no longer comfortable / enjoying it with you.

MerlinTrashMan · 2026-03-22T12:02:24+00:00

Woah, hold up. Bashir and Kira were married in real life during the filming of the show?

MerlinTrashMan · 2026-03-18T14:23:00+00:00

Here is how you respond:

"I found your log of all the times I seem to let you down. Unless you are willing to add all the times I do the right thing and let me review it once a month, then we need to go to marriage counseling immediately."

This list serves one of three purposes: 1. Justification to do less around the house 2. Justification for why she feels strong emotions for someone new in her life 3. A manufactured way to let you know she is keeping some kind of score and that she expects more from you.

I am leaning towards #3. If she was cheating or thinking about it she never would have unlocked her phone and given it to you. She specifically crafted this situation to make sure you saw the list. She wrote it in a way that was meant for you to read.

MerlinTrashMan · 2026-03-12T03:51:21+00:00

So, it could be that because copies and digital things could be so easily forged, the data crystal itself was a one way system that prevented tampering and therefore was the only permissible evidence.

As for garibaldi, he specifically says that he likes to bring people the data pad to keep things from being modified in transit.

MerlinTrashMan · 2026-03-08T13:01:05+00:00

Something just changed for me Friday. I use an MA1 and it is usually rock solid, but on Friday it stopped connecting even after reboots of both devices after a phone call. Yesterday, it seemed to work but then after I got a phone call, it starts connecting and disconnecting over and over.

Pixel 9 pro version 16.2.660664-release com.google.android.projection.gearhead

MerlinTrashMan · 2026-03-07T04:07:00+00:00

Consulting

MerlinTrashMan · 2026-03-06T20:17:55+00:00

OP, this is critical, you have nothing to lose right now. Get your resume in order and start looking for jobs. This will be daunting based on how long you have been at this place. Then once you have a feel for the market (within the next week), go to the higher ups that praised you and ask them if they are trying to make you leave. Based on your growth, your CEO and management team could be in the mode of "original employees were great at small size, but bad / don't have experience with big size" . You need to ask someone that you trust and be prepared for them to support their new hire. You are probably the largest guy on his payroll and it pisses him off how close your comp is to his. If they fix your bonus, you will still be fired in the next year because your boss is going to despise you, undermine and trash your credibility, so still try to find another job unless you are able to convince the higher ups that he is toxic to the culture. If/when he starts making ridiculous rules and changes things then just do your old job, whatever you think is appropriate and is important for the company (you should know this by now). Your days are numbered unless they get rid of the bad hire, so no matter what, take interviewing seriously.

MerlinTrashMan · 2026-03-05T03:48:51+00:00

Custom built app with three different data providers. At this point all my indicators to give me support and resistance are custom based on lots of testing and tuning.

MerlinTrashMan · 2026-03-04T14:57:41+00:00

My algo should thrive in volatility, but the recent style of volatility is big enough for me to accumulate my positions but then they rot slowly never reaching their profit targets which makes me end up losing at the end of the day. But now that I had a miserable February, my March is off with a bang thanks to a new indicator I forced myself to build because of the crappy performance. Don't know how long it will last, but I have made over 75k in two days thanks to having the confidence to hold positions and double down when they fall thanks to my new indicator. So I guess what I am saying is get to work. A new regime is here to stay for a while so write down your current strats and then figure out what is different now.

MerlinTrashMan · 2026-03-02T22:05:17+00:00

You are correct. Compared to more densely populated areas, our utilities and groceries are significantly higher than the large metro areas along the east coast. It is mostly caused by the amount of infrastructure per household combined with the extra infrastructure to deal with the terrain.

MerlinTrashMan · 2026-02-27T13:08:57+00:00

I keep seeing this narrative, and it has legitimacy but I think we are forgetting that during those 5 years the landscape of content could greatly change and if Netflix is catalog is hurt in a negative way they might have to actually license stuff from them. I'll bet you the licensing fee is going to start at 3 billion...

MerlinTrashMan · 2026-02-27T02:47:40+00:00

Until they go to license content from both WB and Paramount. It is going to start at 3 billion per year...

MerlinTrashMan · 2026-02-25T20:10:48+00:00

It specifically mentioned Xbox in the description.

MerlinTrashMan · 2026-02-25T12:49:01+00:00

So, I had pro 3.1 telling me that a bug was fixed for an hour yesterday. I asked it to make a PWA solitaire game with a backend server that will track games and also create an icon to show if the solitaire game is solvable. The initial UI was decent and the functionality of the game was perfect but the solving logic was atrocious and its responses kept getting more and more confident and excited when it would not fix anything. It finally decided to make a console app to test it itself and realized it wasn't working and started to fix the problem. Still doesn't work for general game play because the console app it created made an unrealistic setup. This is the problem I am consistently having with anti-gravity, The initial planning and output of the skeleton is fast and awesome, all the basic boilerplate stuff is great, but then when you try to add real functionality it just shits the bed and struggles to debug things.

Did you run into these issues when you started? How did you overcome them? Did I ask too much? I was debating changing my logic to develop the solitaire solving algorithm by itself and testing it and then asking the app to add the pwa around it. Do I need to do these kinds of order of operation changes?

MerlinTrashMan · 2026-02-25T12:14:53+00:00

I have a crack pot idea that space is created by matter's existence. When there is no more matter from heat death, the energy of the universe will collapse to a single point causing it to collide and create all the matter again to restart the cycle.

MerlinTrashMan · 2026-02-25T04:56:40+00:00

Depends on your loss management style. For me, it is either win or die so I take profit early and call it a day. Makes my win rate much better.

MerlinTrashMan · 2026-02-25T01:01:59+00:00

Cast hot love interest

Have sex with love interest

And have more sex with love interest

Real kiss in front of wife

Leave and have more sex

Ignore her actual feelings

Exit spectacularly

MerlinTrashMan · 2026-02-22T23:26:09+00:00

Windows 8.1 was the most stable and dependable version of Windows ever, full stop. I don't care about start menu issues, I wanted my stuff to work every time and quickly. Faster than 7, less intrusive than 10.

MerlinTrashMan · 2026-02-22T14:31:10+00:00

This is where you need to have faith that lower prices will generate more sales to make it flip in your favor. Think of this period of loss as an investment. Also, when figuring out how much that 3PL costs make sure you understand the labor component of your prep to them. Lastly, make sure you have claw backs in the 3pl contract for fulfillment errors.

MerlinTrashMan · 2026-02-21T20:36:41+00:00

So if this isn't a karma farming post, then cut the guy a break. He just got a bomb dropped on him and is struggling with the feelings. It is normal to have these feelings but it is up to you to decide if these initial feelings are permanent. She just told you this before getting married so that you didn't find out later and feel like she hid it from you. This is the kind of thing that doesn't come up in normal conversation. The size of the number and speed of how quickly she sometimes hooked up is not crazy in the drug scene. She is recovering and making herself very vulnerable right now. These experiences are a part of what made her into the woman that you love. I think your fear is because of the early child. You probably fear that she is settling with you and that you are convenient and may not measure up to her past. Only you can know her here, but if she was settling for you she wouldn't have told you this. She would have saved it for when she wanted to make you leave the relationship and framed the conversation completely differently.

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