Since a lot of people seem to care most about this part:
"His aunt, Dr. Toby Maurer, said the cause was diabetes ketoacidosis, a serious diabetic condition that led to his frequent hospitalization in recent years."
My diabetic dad responded to the vaccine in a similar manner. We spent one scary day in the hospital. After changing his pills to insulin shots (temporarily for a month), he started getting well again.
>diabetic condition that led to his frequent hospitalization in recent years
What I don't realize - he is obviously brilliant, so controlling diabetics via insulin shots should not be hard. Ketoacidosis usually takes at least a day or two of uncontrolled blood glucose (13+ mmol/l), he'd likely feel the symptoms well enough - thirst, fatigue. As the article explains, he deeply cared about medical conditions of others. Ketoacidosis would be a horrible way to go for such a brilliant hacker.
> he is obviously brilliant, so controlling diabetics via insulin shots should not be hard
Being brilliant and the ease someone has controlling diabetes aren’t necessarily related.
The higher you are for a long time, the less you’ll notice the highs. When I was diagnosed, my A1C was over 13, so I’d likely been averaging 300+ for weeks. I felt like shit but it came on slowly over a period of months. It had been so long that I didn’t know what it felt like to feel normal.
But I’m also quite stupid, so take this with a grain of salt.
I can understand not knowing the very 1st time (prior diagnosis), or a denial as there is no cure. Most Type 1 diabetes takes weeks/months to be diagnosed, indeed.
However, his case was years long - I'd expect he'd have had a glucometer and at least a test a day (it takes less than 10sec). That's the controlling part. It's much easier to die from hypoglycemia than hyper one with insulin treated diabetes, with the former taking mere minutes and switching the brain entirely off.
Avoid trying to guess/predict how someone who's not you deals w/ a lifelong chronic illness. In a perfect world every person with diabetes would be rigorously testing and in total control of their blood sugars. This isn't always possible and isn't always what the person wants.
Personally, as a person with Type 1 Diabetes who has relatively good control, I am much more worried about DKA than an unexpected low. Modern insulin analogs are very predictable and I eat a very structured diet. I wear a CGM and am very aware of my #s. It's much more likely that illness or some other factor will send me into DKA than an unexpected low will kill me.
This isn't true for all people with diabetes though.
DKA is dangerous and a medical emergency. If you have symptoms of DKA, you should seek medical assistance immediately, especially if you haven't already been diagnosed with diabetes and thus likely have no way to monitor your health state.
Feels irresponsible to even obliquely recommend people entering DKA ride it out as a weight loss strategy in a thread specifically about a man dying from DKA...
If you value your life (or merely living it without constant pain) you do NOT follow option 2. This option is like taking poison to lose weight (yes there are "options"), hoping it won't build to lethal levels while everything around your body is changing. It will have serious, permanent consequences even if it works. And if it doesn't work, you may not be able to react in time, and then it may kill you, or worse, it may not kill you but do long term or permanent damage.
If you lose weight faster than 100gr per week max consult a doctor immediately and have your liver tested (keep in mind that you have a "weight cycle" that makes a 100kg adult's weight fluctuate by ~3kg and up to 5kg per day. For example you should drink 2 liters of water per day, of course that changes your weight by 2 kg. Same with food (longer cycle, takes 2-3 days to get through). However if you lose 6-7kg in a month, that's definitely too much. Go see a doctor and stop it). Btw: not because the liver is likely to be the problem, it is going to be in trouble, which will trigger a response from the doctor to look for the problem (first step is establishing there is an actual problem).
Calorie reduction to that extent will work, but that will already have consequences if you do it. And I can personally attest: gallstones ... you think something like breaking a bone hurts. It does not. Gallstones, THAT hurts.
0.5kg a week is not rapid weightloss, nor is it extreme. That's a 550 calorie deficit, which is less than two candy bars worth of calories (an 80g candy bar has 300-400 calories).
the poison option is 2,4-dinitrophenol iirc, right? it sabotages the electron transport chain for ATP production, burning it off as heat instead. deaths can result from the fever and metabolic failure.
we learned about 2,4-DNP in my biology class. shocking that people use it for weight loss, but I guess they're desperate.
> Without her knowledge, Mr. Kaminsky had been examining military websites. The administrator vowed to “punish” him by cutting off the family’s internet access. Mrs. Maurer warned the administrator that if he made good on his threat, she would take out an advertisement in The San Francisco Chronicle denouncing the Pentagon’s security.
“I will take out an ad that says, ‘Your security is so crappy, even an 11-year-old can break it,’” Mrs. Maurer recalled telling the administrator, in an interview on Monday.
Something I do not see being mentioned in this NYTimes or TheRegister article. If I am not mistaken he was the one who had the idea for "VisualHostKey"in SSH. I remember a column/article about "advanced" SSH usage from him in early 2000's.
Great to learn about Mr. Kaminsky achievements and his contribution to internet security. Like the story of breaking into sensitive (Military) websites at the age of 11.
