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Kim Jung Gi has died

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Entinel wrote: post #51

I know several people that have died or almost died from Widowmaker heart attacks. Seeing a cardiologist and cardio in general is one of those things that a lot of men ignore because they feel healthy but it cannot be stressed enough, once you hit 30/40s, find a good cardiologist especially if you have a history of heart attacks in your family.

Also get your blood work done annually and cholesterol/ lipid panels checked by a qualified physician as that will be the first line of defense to sound the alarm and prevent heart disease from progressing.

I will never forget seeing a family member with their sternum cracked wide-open heart bypass, where they connect your heart to a machine while you are suspended in animation, so they can operate on bypassing your clogged arteries that could have been managed with a healthy lifestyle and drugs.

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brador wrote: post #87

Heart attack at 47, and he looks reasonably fit too in that linked video from 2019 (age 44). What to do with this information? I don't know. Maybe work on cardio, stop coffee?.

Can any expert here help me understand why his heart attack was not reversible by administering tPA to dissolve blood clots?

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Post by sizzle »

notafraudster wrote: post #17
badpun wrote: post #4

Heart attack at just 47 years old. And not because of obesity. Maintaining his unbelieviable skill level must have been pretty stressful for him.

The biggest surprise to me is that he died of a heart attack in an airport, where presumably AEDs are in ready supply and people are everywhere so it'd be immediately noticed. I really thought the survival rate in such a circumstance, even for catastrophic heart attacks, was pretty good!

Can any expert here help me understand why his heart attack was not reversible by administering tPA to dissolve blood clots?

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Post by Vaslo »

bovermyer wrote: post #53
jhugo wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Huh. This is the first time I read this quote, but it resonates so well. Does anyone else program this way? I usually sit for a while thinking about the problem, write the program mentally, try out edge cases, sometimes rework the program a few times, then once I feel it's correct I type out all the code, with that phase taking much less time than the "mental work". I'd estimate my usual process is about 90% thought,…

I'm the complete opposite. I'll think about the issue a little, but I'll just hack on it until it looks (and performs) right. Lots and lots of trial and error. I draw the same way. My sketches are tons and tons of lines in the wrong places that somehow end up looking right, because the majority of the lines are near to or in the right places.

Same - I can see the beginning and a partial end, but I find most of my ideas and inspiration occur once I get into it, and i can never see the final process to get there - it happens as I go.

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Post by skupig »

modernerd wrote: post #15

I often come back to this video of Kim's process, which is a delight, and now only adds weight to the loss: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmqFbgKWoao “When I decide what to draw, I think about what. And then I create another me in my mind. Another me, a.k.a. mini-me, will be travelling through the space of what I want to draw. … Now, I send a bunch of my mini-mes all over the space to find the best suited location…

I found a lot of nuggets of wisdom in this collection of small lectures from his streams: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrg1NICzlqVc_fV37bT7VmySD...

RIP to a tremendously talented man.

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Post by badpun »

brador wrote: post #87

Heart attack at 47, and he looks reasonably fit too in that linked video from 2019 (age 44). What to do with this information? I don't know. Maybe work on cardio, stop coffee?.

> Maybe work on cardio

Maybe work less? I know four people who died of heart attack. Two of them were in terrible shape (obese, no exercise), while the other two were in very good shape, but were also workoholics in stresful jobs. One of them even got the attack while jogging in the park (he collapsed in a rarely frequented part of the park and was dead before anyone noticed) He was a CEO of a decent-sized company in his early fifties.

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Post by novok »

Entinel wrote: post #51

I know several people that have died or almost died from Widowmaker heart attacks. Seeing a cardiologist and cardio in general is one of those things that a lot of men ignore because they feel healthy but it cannot be stressed enough, once you hit 30/40s, find a good cardiologist especially if you have a history of heart attacks in your family.

I don't have a history of heart attacks, and lot of doctors seem to discount this form of early checking. What do you do when your bloodwork is good?
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