Grant Imahara Has Died • Hacker News Board

Re: Grant Imahara Has Died

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Post by mseepgood » Tue, Jul 14, 2020, 4:57 AM UTC

d33lio wrote: post #10

Wow, this cuts really deep. This makes me want to take more risk in life, to live a bit fuller and care less about money. Even at 26 I still don't have a great way to digest loss like this. The loss of someone who I genuinely looked up to and whom had significant impact on decisions I made my life. Who I thought about when I really hated myself and felt that I didn't belong in engineering at college. Especially Grant…

> This makes me want to take more risk in life

Depends on what type of risk. Some risks make you die earlier.

Re: Grant Imahara Has Died

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Post by datameta » Tue, Jul 14, 2020, 4:58 AM UTC

Honestly this hit me harder than any announced passing in the last few years. What a brilliant and pleasant human being.

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Post by runjake » Tue, Jul 14, 2020, 4:59 AM UTC

Grant warrants a black bar.

Re: Grant Imahara Has Died

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Post by ericbarrett » Tue, Jul 14, 2020, 5:00 AM UTC

Grant and I lived in the same building in San Francisco for a while and I met him at the HOA-run functions. Always a delight to talk to about his crazy path through life. He was a good man and I'm really sorry to hear of his passing.

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Post by GloriousKoji » Tue, Jul 14, 2020, 5:06 AM UTC

I normally don't care about celebrity deaths but this one really has me sad. I know a lot younger people were influenced by him but he had a positive influence on me even thought I was already well into my career as an engineer. He embodied a true engineering spirit, and watching him on TV would make me reflect and kindle the engineering spirit of my own. Even if my job wasn't as sexy, was in a sea of cubicles and the biggest explosions were a small circuit fuse burning off.

Re: Grant Imahara Has Died

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Post by ben174 » Tue, Jul 14, 2020, 5:07 AM UTC

mhh__ wrote: post #17

Absolutely brutal. When I saw the headline I was almost hoping he died in some kind of bizarre robotics accident.

At first glance what you say seems insensitive but after thinking about it it’s rather endearing. Dying doing what you love, like Steve Irwin.

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Post by egeozcan » Tue, Jul 14, 2020, 5:08 AM UTC

He was one of my heroes. Amazing person overall. RIP.

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Post by Mockapapella » Tue, Jul 14, 2020, 5:08 AM UTC

Had to do a double take on this one. He always seemed like a genuine and kind person, it's weird to see "Grant Imahara" and "Dies" in the same sentence.

Re: Grant Imahara Has Died

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Post by aortega » Tue, Jul 14, 2020, 5:09 AM UTC

What the flying fuck, 2020. This was unexpected.

Everybody knows that the only ones capable of getting shit done in Mythbusters were Jamie and Imahara, with Savage a distant third.

Re: Grant Imahara Has Died

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Post by popped » Tue, Jul 14, 2020, 5:15 AM UTC

emerged wrote: post #3

Is there effective screening for aneurism potential? It runs the male side of my family and I'm approaching due time.

Vascular diseases like aneurism are reduced significantly on a plant based diet.

Hope you get to read this before it gets downvoted to oblivion.