• The Atlantic embraces fascism.  (The Atlantic)
  
  This would have made a great April Fool's piece if they'd just held onto it for one more day.  Well, in Australia it already was.
  
  Adrian Vermeule argues that the actual meaning of the Constitution has become an obstacle to conservative goals, and so we must now make it mean whatever we want it to mean.
  
  This demented fuckwit is a professor of constitutional law at Harvard Law School, but we've already seen that professors of constitutional law often have very little regard for the actual Constitution.
  
  Similar to the way ethicists are some of the worst monsters in history.
  
  
  

Tech News

• Samsung is ceasing production of LCDs - including their own QLED designs.  (AnandTech)
  
  From now on it's just OLED.  I believe that small OLED screens have already passed price parity with LCD, but that's certainly not true for larger ones.
  
  
  
• Xerox has decided it will hang on to it's $34 billion and forget about HP for now.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Probably wise.
  
  
  
• On second thought let's not go there.  It is a silly place.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Interest in Zoom has spiked with the advent of our Global Lockdown, though I don't know why.  The company has a terrible track record.  I'd sooner use almost anything else.
  
  Others have come to the same conclusion. (Six Colors)
  
  Indeed, things at Zoom seem to be a bit of a mess.  (Vice)
  
  
  
• Need a bit more power in your laptop than the Ryzen 4900HS can deliver?  The XMG APEX 15 is what you need unless it isn't.  (WCCFTech)
  
  I noted a while back - I think - that while the 12 core 65W Ryzen 3900 non-X is only available to OEMs, it doesn't matter because the standard 3900X, and indeed the 3800X and 3950X as well, can be configured to run at 65W.  Which is better because if you don't like the results you can configure it straight back to 105W.
  
  This laptop has done just that - well, the first part - with anything up to a Ryzen 9 3950X configured to 65W, an RTX 2060 or 2070, and up to 64GB of RAM.
  
  The result is not exactly svelte, but on the other hand it should be more than twice as fast as my current desktop.  Almost every option is configurable except the display, which is only 1080p.  Maxed out with a 3950X, RTX 2070, 64GB RAM and 8TB of SSD it comes to €4299.
  
  
  
• Astrophysicists.  (The Guardian)
  
  
  
• Speaking of AMD, we got our  first Threadripper 3960X server at my day job today.  Looks great, exactly as we specified.  Except for the tiny problem that I know how to verify if Linux is seeing ECC RAM...  And it isn't.
  
  Well, it's seeing an ECC-enabled CPU, an ECC-enabled motherboard, and 8 x 16GB ECC RAM modules, but it is not actually running with ECC enabled.
  
  The techs updated to the latest firmware, to no avail, and are going to try swapping to a different brand of memory.  If that fails we'll try Ubuntu 19.10 to see if we need a newer kernel to cope with the latest Threadripper CPU and chipset.
  
  And if that doesn't work, we'll swap it for an Epyc, which will be a bit slower but runs on a standard server motherboard that's been around for a couple of years now.

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