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Grant Imahara Has Died

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Post by dralley »

input_sh wrote: post #78
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.

My significant other (23 at the time, otherwise perfectly healthy) felt a sudden headache one evening. Since it didn't stop, she was taken to the emergency room immediately, where they've dismissed her with "menstrual problems". A day after that the pain didn't stop, she ended up in the hospital, and had a (fortunately successful) brain operation some days later. Luckily it was in an accessible place, so she ended up…

>Since it didn't stop, she was taken to the emergency room immediately, where they've dismissed her with "menstrual problems".

Infuriating.

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Post by pixelatedindex »

robertoandred wrote: post #207
ShakataGaNai wrote: post #31

Normally 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.

I don't understand this smug "normally I don't care about celeb deaths, except the ones I care about."

I understand the gist of the message. Grant is an engineer, and we relate to him in more ways than we do to a singer or a movie star. So a singer or a movie star's death might not have as big of an impact as someone who is "our own".

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Post by SubiculumCode »

codecamper wrote: post #112
codecamper wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Looks like the shift from 3T to 7T will really open up what they can see inside the brain: https://www.auntminnie.com/index.aspx?sec=rca&sub=ecr_2019&p...

7T scanners for structural imaging is amazing, hands down. I dream daily of being able to move on my the 3T I get to work with for brain volumetry.

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Post by glouwbug »

pixelface wrote: post #47

Grant was part of a group of people who showed us how engineering could be more than cubicles and paperwork, and inspired my childhood dreams which turned into fulfilling careers in both tech and entertainment. To this day Grant and his coworkers are my 'what do i want to be when i grow up' answer.

We don't even get cubicles these days

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Post by kleer001 »

runjake wrote: post #23

Grant warrants a black bar.

"When someone important to the community dies, a thin black bar is added to the top of HN as a mark of respect"

I agree. That follows.

He may not have been a founding member of a computer based community, software, or protocol, but he certainly inspired many of us.

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Post by WhyKill »

Grant will be missed. I was definitely influenced by him at an early age. He gave me a glimpse of what being a roboticist and engineer looked like. And that was enough to propel my career forward.

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Post by ianai »

phaus wrote: post #141
Alupis wrote: post #56

Armed with science, engineering, and curiosity, the Mythbusters crew inspired a generation. Embrace the Scientific Method, and you just might solve any problem that comes your way. Still to this day, my friends and I consider the Mythbusters as the final word on so many "myths". Grant's clever use of robotics, sensors and code opened my eyes to a world of possibilities. I still remember the first time I read a temper…

>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…

Wow, just wow. Grant’s dead at a young age of a tragic event. He inspired a lot of people and probably didn’t push anyone out of a technical field in the process. I know how he was in the show was how he was personally, too. I just think this isn’t the time to over analyze. If anything your comment is the sort of comment that makes science and technical fields lose people.

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Post by aivosha »

evgen wrote: post #200
aivosha wrote: post #184

for 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 rev…

go fuck yourself

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Post by bjt2n3904 »

japhyr wrote: post #210
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…

My father started his career as a software engineer in the 1970s. He worked at places like Raytheon and DEC and a few others. He started his career using punchcards, and ended his career building websites from a laptop. I am grateful that from a very young age he let me ask about and use anything he had in his home office, starting with a kit computer in the late 1970s which I learned BASIC on. My father died in 2011…

I think back to some of the working men in my life. Even at an early age, I was intimidated by their workbenches.

Ingenious little tools they'd cobbled together with scrap material. Probably some insanely specific purpose... but the time it saved was immeasurable. Or perhaps some little design to test a theory out, kept as a memento. Even if it was disorganized, everything had a place. If you asked for something, they knew where it was.

The hours of creative thought and domain knowledge, that spark of creativity, all gone. Just bits of scrap now. It's tragic, but in a strangely bittersweet way.

I think though... when you invest in people? That's something that will last much longer. Both Grant (and your father) invested in people. That's something that is much harder to forget.

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