{"id":428,"date":"2008-02-05T20:14:39","date_gmt":"2008-02-06T00:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/?p=428"},"modified":"2008-02-05T20:14:39","modified_gmt":"2008-02-06T00:14:39","slug":"unique-and-beautiful-snowflakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/?p=428","title":{"rendered":"Unique and beautiful snowflakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to The Great Google, I&#8217;m one of only three people on the planet who uses the term &#8220;backward-endian&#8221; to refer to computing platforms who store their bits and\/or bytes in &#8220;little end first&#8221; order (aka. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.umass.edu\/~verts\/cs32\/endian.html\">little-endian<\/a>, where all the bits are stored least-significant-digit first and most-significant last, kind of like storing a million as 000,000,1. Ten million might be stored in an order such as 000,000,01 or 000,000,10 or 01,000,000, depending on exactly what level of backwardness is being referred to [bit-, byte-, or both]). Apparently &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&#038;q=wrong-endian&#038;btnG=Search\">wrong-endian<\/a>&#8221; is even a bit more common.<\/p>\n<p>Also, apparently nobody besides Kr* uses the term &#8220;seed holes&#8221; in the context of pants. (I have 2 pairs of pants that came pre-nicked from the factory so they&#8217;d grow &#8220;hey, I play rough and\/or do a lot of physical labor&#8221; fashion-holes after a few washings. I didn&#8217;t notice this fact until after a few washings.)<\/p>\n<p>What are your own unique term-isms?<\/p>\n<p>(To those who may accuse me of being a compulsive Googler and\/or bored at work, let me assure you that I&#8230;er&#8230;I&#8230;am ending this post now.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to The Great Google, I&#8217;m one of only three people on the planet who uses the term &#8220;backward-endian&#8221; to refer to computing platforms who store their bits and\/or bytes in &#8220;little end first&#8221; order (aka. little-endian, where all the bits are stored least-significant-digit first and most-significant last, kind of like storing a million as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}