Wow, fuck.

Literally some minutes later, i scrolled down below my above comment.

And saw this one.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49053201

Which doesn't validate mine, but agrees with what I said.

Except that it was posted about one hour before mine.

go figure.

double wow. yet another one on the same lines, as a reply to the link i posted above.