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.