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Grant Imahara Has Died

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Re: Grant Imahara Has Died

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Post by gitgud »

stavros wrote: post #104
andrewstuart2 wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's hard to think of him as a celebrity, even. He felt just like a guy you'd hang out with at work or after work.

This is not relevant, but this strikes me as a big cultural difference between wherever you're from and where I'm from. Here, the first thought to complete that sentence would be "he strikes me as someone you'd be friends with". I wonder why "hang out at work" was the first thing that came to mind for you. Here we don't tend to think in terms of "people we hang out with after work", we generally have "friends we firs…

> I wonder why "hang out at work" was the first thing that came to mind for you.

The Mythbusters team had a great comradery that reminds me of working at a great company. I guess he just seems like talented humble engineer that you might been lucky to hang out with at work at some point...

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Post by sanitycheck »

hydrogenbonds wrote: post #102

I'm pretty sure that for most of these posts, this is how it goes for HN users: - no idea who this guy is, let's spend 5-10 minutes of my life to find out - hmm yeah, he did good - upvote But maybe we keep doing this for post after post, wasting time and learning stuff that won't help us achieves our actual objectives.

I would guess that around 90% of HN's US users have watched Mythbusters, and probably 30-40% of users from elsewhere - which might be half the people reading this post. If you don't know it, I'd totally recommend it - especially the ones with Grant in (S4-13?)

Anyway, I'm really sorry to hear this - seemed like a great guy and, as others have said, a fantastic role model.

Re: Grant Imahara Has Died

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Post by ak39 »

d1str0 wrote: post #60
maccam94 wrote: post #54

I would not be surprised if he is diagnosed with COVID-19, it can cause blood clots that obstruct blood flow. "Severe brain haemorrhage and concomitant COVID-19 Infection: A neurovascular complication of COVID-19": https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7199686/

This article is specifically about a single person (60yo woman) who had a aneurysm and was actively fighting pneumonia from COVID19. Just because a celeb died doesn’t mean it makes any sense to try and tie in COVID19.

The OP did not say "because a celeb died therefore ...". You said that.

It may be insensitive or bad timing to be mentioning COVID as a speculation for Grant's death right now, but it doesn't rule out the possibility.

Re: Grant Imahara Has Died

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Post by ak39 »

maccam94 wrote: post #110
d1str0 wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This article is specifically about a single person (60yo woman) who had a aneurysm and was actively fighting pneumonia from COVID19. Just because a celeb died doesn’t mean it makes any sense to try and tie in COVID19.

I've seen multiple reports of severe blood clotting and strokes in COVID patients, including those who are otherwise asymptomatic, including people under 50.[1] Given that there is a pandemic going around with similar symptoms, I don't think this is a huge leap (but again, I am not saying it's anywhere near certain either). I probably should have used this source in my original comment, I just grabbed the first link…

That COVID wasn't mentioned by reports is itself information. I believe that had Grant tested positive for COVID, the reports would have mentioned that. The fact that it isn't mentioned, makes it unlikely that it is COVID related.

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Post by JackFr »

jmlundberg wrote: post #96

You have got to love him as Sulu https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_Continues https://m.imdb.com/title/tt2732442/mediaviewer/rm1680690432 Edit. The episodes are free, at https://www.startrekcontinues.com

Those are AMAZING. How did I not know about this?

Re: Grant Imahara Has Died

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Post by snarfy »

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…

Life really is short. Plan for tomorrow or live for today. There is a balance, but I think many engineer types skew much too far into the planning, not enough into the living. I've gone to a lot of funerals and it is always a constant reminder.

Re: Grant Imahara Has Died

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Post by rvz »

hydrogenbonds wrote: post #102

I'm pretty sure that for most of these posts, this is how it goes for HN users: - no idea who this guy is, let's spend 5-10 minutes of my life to find out - hmm yeah, he did good - upvote But maybe we keep doing this for post after post, wasting time and learning stuff that won't help us achieves our actual objectives.

Of course that the majority of HN folks here know that Grant has had a major influence in their lives and engineering careers, so they will pay their respects here, which they should. My deepest condolences to Mr Imahara's family.

Unfortunately on HN, it now seems to depend on some other things to be able to pay your respects to here. We lost Kobe Bryant (NBA basketball player) and some (including me) wanted to pay their respects here, but it was repeatedly flagged and censored immediately.

Re: Grant Imahara Has Died

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Post by bjt2n3904 »

https://mobile.twitter.com/grantimahara/status/1243234010215...

This was his workbench. In many ways, it doesn't look much different than mine. Grant was an electrical engineer, like me. Gone suddenly before 50 from an aneurysm. I can't help but wonder if it looks like that now, filled with unfinished projects. Projects that only he understood the complexity of, and few would have the hope of picking up where he finished. Projects that will never be completed, now that their creator has died.

Grant, and Myth Busters were an inspiration to me as a young engineer. He was barely my age on the show, but influenced an entire generation of future engineers.

I checked his Twitter feed. Barely a bitter or angry tweet. None of the toxic outrage so prevalent in society today. The world lost a decent person, and a brilliant engineer.

Nobody knows their time. That what I leave unfinished would only be personal trivialities, and not angry tweets. That I would be able to have that impact on the next generation.

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Post by ainiriand »

codecamper wrote: post #111
woutr_be wrote: post #14

Brain aneurysm is truly something terrible, I lost a friend to it a couple of years ago. (She was 22 at the time and in good health). She just woke up one day in the middle of the night with a headache and had to vomit. On the way to the hospital she fell into a coma and never woke up. Really scary.

So what can be done preventatively against a brain aneurysm? Seems like there is something called a Magnetic Resonance Angiography.

Having a controlled blood pressure really helps. Other than that... good luck I guess.

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Post by slau »

bjt2n3904 wrote: post #128

https://mobile.twitter.com/grantimahara/status/1243234010215... This was his workbench. In many ways, it doesn't look much different than mine. Grant was an electrical engineer, like me. Gone suddenly before 50 from an aneurysm. I can't help but wonder if it looks like that now, filled with unfinished projects. Projects that only he understood the complexity of, and few would have the hope of picking up where he fini…

It is eerie how much that looks like my workbench. I guess EEs are all the same.
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