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Grant Imahara Has Died

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Post by ZekeTheLeek »

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…

This was a beautiful read, thanks for sharing

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Post by throwaway287391 »

pixelatedindex wrote: post #212
robertoandred wrote: post #207

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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".

Sure, the question is why one would feel the need to point that out and explicitly compare this death to others, other than to feel a bit of smug self-satisfaction. It kind of goes without saying that it will affect you more when someone you care about dies (whether you know them or not) than when someone you don't care about dies. For any given death, most people on earth are going to be in the latter camp, and in polite society those people keep their mouths shut out of respect to those in the former camp.

All the rhetoric about how artists (singers and actors) are "vapid" and the like is also pretty emblematic of the worst of "arrogant engineer" thinking.

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Post by VLM »

czbond wrote: post #179
petercooper wrote: post #160

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(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?)

Researchers seem nervous about the contrast dye used in the process.

It would seem unwise to do a MRI with GBCA for fun or speculative purposes, on the other hand "makes 1 in a zillion people sick" is actually quite acceptable odds for something that's fatal unless treated.

It seems those dyes can cross the blood-brain barrier as very few things can, which is good during the MRI process, however the body may or may not be terribly good at cleaning them out (and the process of cleaning those dyes out of the blood once they're outta yer brain is also hard on the kidneys).

Also edited to add, we DO know everything there is to know about stupid tricks involving ferrous metal being attracted to giant MRI magnets with squishy humans in the way, and that risk of damage is probably higher than the GBCA risk.

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Post by deaddodo »

stavros wrote: post #104
andrewstuart2 wrote: post #73

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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…

I don't know about OP's intention, but I always took and intended "someone you grab a beer with after work" to mean something along the lines of "close acquaintance" or "casual friend". Someone you more than incidentally hang out with via group meets or mutual friends, but not quite someone you would invite to a small intimate event.

It doesn't necessarily imply co-workers, but usually that's where that sort of friendship develops; given forced proximity.

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Post by loco5niner »

dharmab wrote: post #195
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.

Diet and exercise.

Don't know why you're being downvoted. Anecdotally, my brother-in-law had surgery to correct an aneurysm, and was told to change his diet and start running after to help his recovery.
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