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Grant Imahara Has Died

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Post by StavrosK »

citizenkeen wrote: post #170
stavros wrote: post #104

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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 also wonder how much of it is "nerd" adjacent. I came to software development late in my career (I was a lawyer and a health care administrator first). I work for a good company and I like a lot of my coworkers. I would never want to be friends with them. That's a barrier I'm not very comfortable crossing. When I worked in a hospital, when I was a lawyer, it was the same. Good coworkers, no desire to keep seeing th…

> Except engineers, developers, and data scientists. I'm not sure what it is.

I assume you mean "they're not friends", rather than "they're all just friends"?

That doesn't really echo my experience, I have many good friends from past jobs that I'm still in contact with. Though I've also definitely gotten frustrated with people we seemed to get along with at work but then didn't ever seem to want to hang out outside work...

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Post by metalforever »

slau wrote: post #130
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.

Gave me ideas . Man I thought I was the only one that made a huge mess with electrical stuff on the desk . I was trying to emulate my lab setup from school this whole time and what I really need is just the foldout desk from the attic.

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Post by phaus »

evilduck wrote: post #165
phaus wrote: post #141

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>Embrace the Scientific Method, and you just might solve any problem that comes your way. Mythbusters was a great and inspiring show, but they weren't always great at following the scientific method IMO. It was always more about cool hacks than scientific validity. They decided people being injured by bullets being shot into the sky was a myth mostly because they couldn't locate the bullets they fired into the sky, i…

I just rewatched this out of curiosity and I think you’re seriously misremembering that episode (S4E11), the final conclusions wasn’t “busted”. They asked “busted, plausible or confirmed” and they concluded “all of the above”. Grant actually was part of the show already at this point, they did actually find 9mm bullets they fired up, but couldn’t find 30-06 rounds. They did conclude that “straight up and down” was sa…

I remember being disappointed with their testing and results at the time but it was 14 years ago maybe I didn't get it right.

I don't think they are overly rigorous with in general but its still a great show and I actually dont think they tried to portray themselves as strictly following the scientific method either.

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Post by antonzabirko »

ak39 wrote: post #124
maccam94 wrote: post #110

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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.

No for some reason these are omitted, such as the death of a recent French mathematician and another one that came up here on hackernews.

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Post by dghughes »

GloriousKoji wrote: post #25

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 th…

I saw him as an engineer before being a celebrity. I'm like you deaths of celebrities although sad tend to be of vapid people. But Grant was a scientist who inspired many. Just reading the comments here it's amazing the impact he had in such a short time.

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Post by czbond »

rotterdamdev wrote: post #156
codecamper wrote: post #111

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

Taking your vitamins is the first step. People seem healthy until it turns out they had chronic low levels of vitamin D and K.

Any thoughts or places to look for what impacts D & K have on the condition?

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Post by czbond »

petercooper wrote: post #160
codecamper wrote: post #111

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

(I'm not really here to discuss the pros and cons, false positives and what not here as it's a complex topic, but..) I have a medical every three years that involves a full body MRI and ultrasounding which monitors for both brain and aortic aneurysms. There are people who have caught aneurysms in early stages through such monitoring, but there are enough downsides to such screening that it's not something that would…

Do you have an idea of some of the downsides? (Imagining cost - but also radiation?)
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