Kevin Bae

Non-Social in a Socially Networked World

Category: Technology

  • President Trump doesn’t understand the concept of the “Public Square”

    President Trump today signed an Executive Order that threatens Internet based social networking platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc. He says that these platforms are the 21st century equivalent of the public square and that the protections afforded by the First Amendment to the Constitution apply to these companies. He has it totally wrong.…

  • SpaceX puts the US back into the space race today!

    This is the most important thing happening today. I wish for a perfect launch and I’m hopeful for a resurgence of interest in outer space. Let’s get to Mars!

  • The Internet is 50 years old today

    Who knew? It’s already been half a century since the first message was sent across the Arpanet. That moment lead to me being able to post the following diatribe that no one will read. Oh the wonders of modern technology! Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web (which is different from the Internet…

  • Google continues down the path to shitty search

    I stopped using Google for my everyday search a long time ago. As the years rolled on I started to find that their search engine was trying to be too smart. I use Gmail and an Android phone and increasingly my search results were either what Google’s algorithm thought I wanted versus what I was…

  • I wish I was smart enough to understand the problem and the solution

    I took computer science and had to learn combinatorics and boolean functions. I’ll have to file this under the, “If You Don’t Use It You Lose It” part of my brain. I just don’t remember anything beyond the basics to understand the problem or the solution. I should have kept studying. A paper posted online…

  • Dell XPS 13 (2019). A regular user’s review

    About a month ago I purchased the latest version of Dell’s XPS 13 laptop. I previously owned the 2016 version and while there isn’t much difference cosmetically there are some improvements that make this laptop much better this time around and one immensely annoying thing that I absolutely hate. Let me get the hate out…