If nothing else, I can tell at a glance if I'm logged in or not.

IMO should be an SOP for anywhere that you might log in with different accounts.

How many times have you been logged in as root and didn't realize it?

I used a color palette generator with the black text and orange logo and it spit out: CFDBD5, which gives the site a bit of a high desert brush look.

I use D8D8C0, a slighly darker shade of the background. I find it aesthetically more pleasing than the bright orange bar. Also makes the logo pop.

But I'm grateful that it's mostly stopped happening, let's not revive it!

The CSS colours are specifically 3 octets written as 2 digit hex, so you so while I like the broader idea that "it's a byte of karma" is sufficient, knowledge of 2 digit hex codes also applies to the privilege directly.

Plus, non-standard byte lengths would be a much more niche reference, and I don't think people would get it.

Can you elaborate? My older relative who studied computers thought byte= 8 bits. I also thought so. My ego is taking a hit tonight.

Lisp provides the ability for arbitrarily defined bytes.

Since i'm here, why do most storage mediums i.e usb, phones sd ostensibly follow this method (1gb 2,4,8!,16,32 etc) and why are they almost always a few hundreds mb off?

Some standards organizations tried to “solve” the issue by defining a “kibibyte” as 1024 bytes and so forth, but you only ever see those in abbreviated forms (ie KiB). I personally hate that convention; the words are aesthetically atrocious and were only invented to please pedants (who annoy me) and dishonest marketing people (whom I detest even more).

    if user.karma > 250:
      css.topbar.bgcolor = (
        user.prefs.topbar.bgcolor
        or “#ff6600”
      )

    [bgcolor="#ff6600"] {
        background-color: transparent;
    }

Here's pg talking about how he wrote the code for it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=98265.

    [bgcolor="#ff6600"] {
      background: #008 !important;    
    }

    body > center > table > tbody > tr:first-child > td {
      background: #008 !important;
    }