Grant was my childhood hero, and one of a few people who inspired me to pursue robotics. RIP Grant. 2020 fucking sucks.
Grant Imahara Has Died
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#192Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 w…
I meant
> a lot of them distinguish between "friends" and "friends from work", except engineers, developers, and data scientists
as in my experience is the people who don't distinguish between the two seem to be very STEM focused.
I'll get drinks with coworkers after work, but it's still very much "drinks with coworkers".
My friends get to place demands on my time that coworkers don't, and I'm willing to accept a higher level of frustration with coworkers than I am with my friends. For me, they're different relationships, and I always want to know which one I'm in. I never want to fire a friend, ever.
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#193Earlier quoted context omitted.
So frustrating when you have a coworker who you get along with very well, will take walks/lunch/etc, but refuses to go to happy hour or do anything outside of work. We’re all people, shouldn’t matter where we met. It’s not like we talk about work outside of work.
Yeah, and when I asked, the answer was "oh I don't hang out with coworkers outside work", which I can't understand.
I hang out with coworkers outside of work for a little decompression. As coworkers.
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#194Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, and when I asked, the answer was "oh I don't hang out with coworkers outside work", which I can't understand.
I don't personally limit myself in this way, but I understand. Having personal friendships at work makes it more challenging to make hard business decisions such as switching companies when opportunities present themselves or firing / laying off team members. I've worked with people who are very friendly and pleasant to work with but explicitly avoid any personal relationships so they can use pure cost-benefit analys…
More than a "bit" sociopathic, unless you are saying that this person had to make a conscious effort to avoid reciprocating, and you know that they naturally formed reciprocal bonds in other contexts.
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#195Brain 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.
Diet and exercise.
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#196For several years Grant had the only other master/slave robot arm I could find on youtube. I was so excited when I found one and saw it was his... I felt a real connection with him, even though I didn't know him personally. It's been a long time dream of mine to be on battlebots, and I treasure the Deadblow T-shirt I got there about 20 years ago. This truly hurts. The 2 videos for the curious: https://www.youtube.com…
I desperately want to put an actuated camera on that, and wear a VR helmet, so you can see the arms from your point of view.
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#197I 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…
We care about celebrity deaths because our instinctive brain sees them as someone familiar. Someone that you knew, a member of your tribe. Even if that person doesn't even know you exist. It is also a reminder of our own death. Specially when it is someone young that looks fit and all.
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#198Normally I ignore the "rich and famous" obits, however Grant's passing is really quite upsetting. MythBusters meant a great deal to me during my college years, right as I was trying to figure out where I wanted to go in life. The build team was always the best. With the loss of Jessie in 2019, it's been a hard year for Mythbusters.
See with the Mythbusters (sidekicks), I can't really see them as rich; I mean I'm sure they made some decent money off of it, but I doubt it set them up for life and I wouldn't be surprised if they got screwed over in that show in favor of Jamie / Adam. I never heard why they were let go / quit the show, although I've always suspected it was because the show just wasn't as popular anymore.
Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage have a reported net worth of about $8 million. Grant and Tory have reported net worths of $2 million. And Kari is about $1.5 million.
Not bad, but both Jamie and Adam were well respected visual effects artists, builders, and model makers before Mythbusters. Mythbusters primarily shot at Jamie's shop.
Grant and Tory both worked at ILM. Kari was an employee of M5, Jamie's company, when she was put on the show.
So, not terribly rich, but about what you would expect. $1 - $2 million "net worth" is more attainable than you might think. As net worth includes assets and what not. They have enough money to take substantial risks that might not pay off.
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#199I also lost a friend who was very influential among us this year. The death was so sudden and guessing from his tweet before his death, it was probably cerebral apoplexy or similar sudden brain damage.
If you have a friend not keep in touch of years, you should consider to have a little chat sometimes because you never knew he or you still alive tomorrow.
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#200for all those talking about their benches: good job making this about yourselves ! why pass an opportunity, right ?
Exactly. How dare they take a traumatic event and use it to think about what might link them to the victim; to consider experiences and habits you might share with the victim of this unfortunate event is selfish. Don't you all know that this is a time for self-serving finger-waging by ignorant scolds who are here to tell you what is and is not an acceptable format for sharing grief?
"Grief does not change you, it reveals you." Would you like to know what I think it has revealed in this instance?