I hate this year. I am going to miss him even though I never met him he was kind of a friend.
Grant Imahara Has Died
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#132For people who can not view the article, here's an outline link https://outline.com/uGmACW
Thanks, it's censored in Europe. Edit: Weird, now it doesn't show the GDPR censorship page anymore.
outline.com appears to be located in the USA. The decision to not show the content to European IPs will have been made inside that server, not "in Europe".
(I acknowledge it isn't doing that now, so please consider this a comment in a time-warp. The images are all failing with "Sorry, this content is not available in your region." however.)
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#133Earlier 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…
probably means "someone I would be unlikely to meet via my personal circles, but likely someone I'd encounter at work, and then develop a friendship with, both within and outside the workplace."
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#134https://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…
I see a nodemcu, some sparkfun and adafruit gear. I see the node sitting on some plug in headers over a breakout board.
That looks like things I like to play with. I'm not an electrical engineer, but am an earth scientist , engineer, programmer, and electronics hobbyist. This man was inspiring. What a loss to the world his passing is.
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#135It reminds me of an old podcast where the host lost a ton of weight and was healthy again but was complaining that for all the work he put in to be healthy, his body could just one day fail and he’d die.
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#136The Mythbusters were incredibly influential in my desire to pursue engineering. I also liked watching Battlebots, seeing all the crazy things they would come up with... I wish the best for his friends and family.
I'd recognized him from Battlebots since his robot Deadblow was a finalist from season 1, the final episode[0] starts with a short intro from Grant that shows his fun perspective brought to the table on Mythbusters. The entire Mythbusters team surely inspired the next generation of scientists and engineers with a can-do mentality.
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#137Horrible.
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#138Super sad! It was due to Grant, Adam, and Jamie that I fancied making things from an early age. I used to do LEGO versions of their builds as a kid that helped me a lot to become a designer and engineer today. The kind of multi-disciplinary notion of life they professed was a key for me to approach my education.
I still remember dubbed versions of their show in Hindi on Discovery and my parents allowing to watch it beyond TV as "Whatever is on discovery is good for kids"
I resonated a lot with Grant as he was very simple and introvert-ish among the whole lot.
This year is like a nightmare.
RIP Grant :'(
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#139https://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.
It's a neurological condition. We go to college to get a diagnosis.