On: Kevin Mitnick has died

[melling]

Looks like he died from pancreatic cancer. This cancers always reminds me of the Last Lecture by Randy Pausch. He was a CMU professor who also died from pancreatic cancer 15 years ago.

https://www.cmu.edu/randyslecture/

Here’s an HN discussion from a few years ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24972377

[jseliger → melling]

There is some hope for improved M&M in pancreatic cancer: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06063-y, thanks to personalized mRNA vaccines and PD-L1 checkpoint inhibitors.

[xupybd → jseliger]

That's good to hear. It's one of those cancers that is normally not noticed until it's far too late.

[Grazester → melling]

I remember that lecture very well and thought about it a few days ago.