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In my experience, the only mutually interesting topic is for them to spend time with their parent. If whatever you're doing is interesting to them and you spend time with them doing it, they'll remember it for the rest of their lives.

I helped one of my sons learn some basic electronics and he showed a lot of skill with it, but he soon lost interest when I tried to turn it over to him to explore. He didn't seem interested in pursuing the topic as much as spend time with me. Nowadays it's mostly talking about the software projects he's implementing and how best to architect or design his code. He gets annoyed when I become too pedantic, so mostly it's asking questions and validating (and guiding) his choices.

I've had a challenge doing activities with my oldest, as our interests hardly match up, and I wasn't able to keep the interest (I'm stubborn and self-centered). Mostly I have to listen--I'm not sure whether he enjoys me listening, but he keeps doing it when the opportunity presents itself.

My youngest--I'm at a loss. He's high-functioning autistic and plays games most of the time. He's smart and witty, so he enjoys the nuances of conversation and actually doing things with the family. He often doesn't care what we're doing, just that we're doing it together.

We do some activities (plays, musical performances, etc.) as a family (most of the time minus the eldest, as he works, etc.), and they remember and appreciate and are fond of those times when they think on them. It may not be that they were necessarily interested in them, but the fact we enjoyed the time together is what counts.

Which is to say that trying to find a mutually interesting topic is futile--they all have their distinct interests and you can't change that. But what you can do is spend time with them, pursuing their interests. It takes a ton of energy and effort, but they will appreciate it and hopefully take the same habits into their own families.

Except the way the movie/music folks look at it is probably the same way they look at VHS, DVD, Blu-ray and BR 4K and so forth or vinyl, 8-track, cassette, CD, etc... Apple, Amazon and Google are yet another "format" as it were. More platforms means more money for them.

It's not about the customer--none of them cares, except at that moment in time the customer forks over the cash for it.

Human error or crying wolf aside, it's an interesting exercise from which residents can learn what is truly lacking in the case of such an emergency.

Hopefully instead of seeking to cast blame or personnel firings, etc., folks will learn what it is they lack in emergency response.

I recently bought one of these: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/boards-kits... and added 4GB RAM and a 120GB SSD for about US$230.

It runs as a TimeMachine backup server. It's reasonably fast and very quiet.

In the end, it really depends on what you want to do with it.

[Edit: If you want to go really cheap, get a Raspberry Pi.]

Makes me wonder how these topics relate to Xi's speech to the PLA (if at all, really).

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/04/xi-jinping-tel...

Then I saw the article discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16036794 and it adds a very different perspective about which I really have nothing to add, unfortunately; I don't personally know anyone in this situation.

Agree with your sentiment.

Three cases:

1. I know a bus driver for the local school district that doesn't necessarily like his job, but he does it. He looks forward to retiring with a pension.

2. My father wasn't necessarily passionate about his drafting job, but still worked that job as a means to an end--support his family and pay for and enjoy his hobbies. He now enjoys his retirement and travels the world with his wife.

3. A brother-in-law works at his local hardware store. He doesn't specifically like it but it helps him buy his man-toys and care for his family and horses.

I really don't know what each of their dream job is, but it's obvious to me they have different goals than I.

Honestly it was a bit of a shock to me to realize that people work jobs that aren't what they're passionate about, and it doesn't bother them. It's a means to an end.

It made me realize that a lot of us (myself included--as a software type) are (too?) emotionally involved in our jobs. We've basically turned our hobby into our job; the means has become the end, really, to the point that we can't fathom someone working a job they aren't passionate about.

My opinion (and my experience with others) is that people want to work so they can sustain their desired lifestyle; it often doesn't matter the job they have so long as it helps them reach their goals. In fact I've known some folks who pursued software (degree-based or otherwise) simply to achieve their goals and support their (non-software or whatever) hobbies.

It’s a matter of perspective.

Freedom from what? In this case it’s freedom from regulation.

It’s like hospitals always wanting to cut costs. But it’s never about the patient saving money.

Maybe W3C is trying to stay relevant?