u/TheDeadlyPretzel

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My mascot has been like this for weeks, thought now was a pretty good moment to make a meme lol

What started as me thinking this was all payback for Anthropic refusing to cooperate with the DoD has kind of fallen apart on me... because then GPT-5.6 got gatekept too, like two weeks later. OpenAI. The lab that actually TOOK the Pentagon deal. Same cyber-excuse. So it stopped looking like an Anthropic grudge and started looking like the new normal.

One government now basically decides which frontier models the rest of the planet gets to run. Mythos came back but only for ~100 approved US companies, Fable is STILL dark for everyone with no date, and if you're not American you're just cut off by your passport for nothing you did. What really bothers me though is there's no realistic fallback., at least for Europe.. Europe has nothing in the same tier. At all...

And handing one government a switch like this basically lets them pick winners, CompanyX gets the new model while its competitors wait, and we all know how US lobbying tends to go. Not trying to dunk on Anthropic btw, they're the one lab that said no... it's the bigger pattern that worries me. Wrote the whole thing up into an article for those that wanna have more thorough read... but... yeah, so, opinions?

I was just wondering if anybody else has this kind of hyperhidrosis...

So: If I am working out or I'm warm, I'll sweat like a normal person from my forehead and my armpits and my back...

but then when I get an actual "hyperhidrosis attack" (so like when I'm anxious, or even just excited about something, or honestly sometimes from basically nothing) it's a completely different set of places (except my armpits).. palms, the soles of my feet, armpits, and my groin/butt. And NEVER my forehead or chest or back during those.

It's like I have two totally separate sweat maps that don't overlap at all, which I always thought was super weird.

And the thing that really gets me is it's not even just the sweating during an attack..
- my heart rate shoots up to like 120
- I get short of breath
- a bit dizzy
- my hands start shaking
- I can't think straight
- and my fingers and feet literally swell up and go red with white blotches.
- my muscles tense up and I can't even type properly

Then after a bad one I feel all flu-ish and drained and the rest of my day is pretty much gone.

Oh and it can get set off by FRICTION too which I never really see anyone mention.. like if I rub my hands over my jeans it can trigger the whole thing, exactly the same as if I was anxious. Feels 100% identical though, same heart rate spike, same everything. I always just assumed it was "anxiety" but the fact that being hot gives me perfectly normal sweating in completely different spots makes me feel like it's something more autonomic / nervous system related than just being a sweaty nervous guy... Anyway I guess my main questions are:

- does anyone else get the elevated heart rate thing and that other stuff with their HH? like not just sweaty hands but a full on adrenaline-dump feeling.. it feels like I'm constantly in fight-or-flight... even when it is triggered by friction...
- and does anyone else have that split where your "stress sweat" and your "hot sweat" come from completely different parts of your body?

Currently taking oral glycopyrrolate, which helps somewhat... I'd still sweat a ton during meetings or from other triggers, along with shaking and other stuff... But 80mg of propranolol helps with that, also, only somewhat (which is way more than is usually given for anxiety, which prompted my doctor to get my heart examined but it all came back normal)

Just trying to figure out if I'm alone in this or if it's a known thing for some of you.. been dealing with it since puberty and honestly just kinda want to know I'm not crazy lol

I always felt like there is something else going on alongside "just hyperhidrosis" but idk what and so far doctors have not found anything...

BTW, I'm 33, male, had it at least since puberty but maybe earlier (though my mother doesn't recall...)

Oh, and of the few things that help get me out of "an attack", paradoxically, a steaming hot shower does the trick, or standing against a real warm window, after a long while under the hot water I will feel a kind of tension disappear in my chest... I can tell the exact moment it passes and when it does I am done sweating...

Why YSK: most EU shoppers think this only applies to physical items, faulty items or that you have to justify the return. neither is true. you can withdraw from any online or distance contract within 14 days for any reason or no reason, including digital purchases, and the seller has to refund you. companies routinely make this hard or pretend it doesn't apply.

The rule (EU Consumer Rights Directive 2011/83/EU):

• 14 days from delivery (physical goods) or from contract date (services and digital)
• no reason required, no penalty
• seller must refund within 14 days of receiving your withdrawal notice, including the original outbound shipping cost
• applies to any business selling to EU consumers, including non-EU sellers shipping in

Main exceptions (you cannot withdraw):

• custom-made or personalised items (engraved, made-to-measure, etc)
• perishables (food, flowers, fresh produce)
• sealed hygiene goods once the seal is broken (cosmetics, underwear, earphones in some cases)
• sealed audio, video, software, or games once the seal is broken
• digital content once download or streaming has started and you explicitly consented to start before the 14 days are up
• newspapers and magazines (subscriptions are still covered)
• accommodation, car rental, event tickets, restaurant reservations tied to a specific date
• services already fully performed with your prior express consent
• public auctions
• anything bought in person in a physical shop (this right only covers distance and off-premises sales)

Caveats worth knowing:

• you usually pay return shipping unless the seller offered free returns or failed to inform you of return costs at purchase
• you can inspect the item like you would in a shop, but excessive use that lowers its resale value can be deducted from your refund
• "must be in original unopened packaging" is not a legal requirement, only that the item is in a reasonable resaleable state
• some countries are stricter than the 14-day floor and some sellers offer 30+ voluntarily

If the seller stalls or refuses, cite article 9 of Directive 2011/83/EU (or your country's national implementation) and escalate to the consumer authority. Belgium: FOD Economie. Germany: Verbraucherzentrale. France: DGCCRF. Netherlands: ACM. Ireland: CCPC. Spain: OMIC. They take this seriously and most disputes resolve once the regulator gets cc'd.

Two weeks since open-sourcing Tesseron and figured I'd post a short retro on the design decisions, mostly the ones that looked clean on paper and turned out to be more contested than I expected.

Quick context: Tesseron is an open-source thing I shipped on April 21 that lets MCP-compatible AI agents (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.) call typed actions inside your running web/Node app, instead of browser automation or scraping. WebSocket gateway + Standard Schema + a small SDK. Repo: https://github.com/BrainBlend-AI/tesseron (BUSL-1.1, free for in-app use, auto-converts to Apache-2.0 after 4y, no SaaS, no monetization in any shape or form, full disclosure I'm the author).

Decisions I'd re-examine if I started over:

1. WebSocket as the only v1 transport. I picked WebSocket because the app is the short-lived party (browser tab, desktop process, CLI) and stdio MCP can't reach into a browser tab. Two weeks in, this still feels right for browser/desktop, but the "why not stdio for the pure Node server case?" question keeps showing up. Should have shipped both at v1 instead of bolting stdio on later.

2. Standard Schema instead of Zod-only. I went pluggable so Valibot/ArkType/Effect Schema users could use it without bringing in Zod. Mostly the right call... the type complexity is real, but the "just hardcode Zod" feedback has been quieter than the "thanks for not making me bring in Zod" feedback. Effect Schema people specifically engaged hard.

3. The 6-char claim-code handshake. Pairs one running app to one agent session at a time. The "why not multiplex" critique is real and reasonable, but the honest answer is debuggability. When something goes wrong you want to know which app the agent is currently driving, period. Multi-app routing at v1 would have made the failure modes harder to reason about. I think this was right but I keep getting asked.

4. BUSL-1.1 instead of MIT/Apache. This attracted the predictable "BUSL is poison" reaction in some places. Pushback was lower than I expected because the auto-conversion to Apache-2.0 at 4y is real and the only blocked use is Tesseron-as-a-service. Still, if you're considering BUSL for your own thing, expect to spend a paragraph explaining it every time someone reads it.

5. No Python SDK at v1. Punted on day-1 to keep the surface minimal and ship the TS SDK fully polished. Looking at this now, that was wrong. The MCP ecosystem expectation is "if it's MCP-shaped, there's a Python SDK on day one", and the protocol being CC BY 4.0 doesn't make up for that day-one gap. Should have shipped a thin Python SDK even if it lagged the TS one feature-for-feature.

Open question for the room, since this sub has people who've shipped things further than I have... what was your "should have shipped this on day one" item, the thing where you punted to keep the v1 surface clean and then spent the next month explaining the absence? Curious whether there's a pattern.