add comment about loogle

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Joe Ardent 2023-07-31 07:44:31 -07:00
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@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ guess a new possibly-valid ULID simply by incrementing an already-known one. And
that sorting will need to read all the way to the end of the ULID for IDs created in the same
millisecond.
To address these shortcomings, Julids (Joe's ULIDs) have the following structure:
To address these shortcomings, Julids (Joe's[^httm] ULIDs) have the following structure:
![Julid bit structure](./julid.svg)
@ -278,6 +278,11 @@ those crates! Feel free to steal code from me any time!
[name](https://gitlab.com/nebkor/julid/-/blob/2484d5156bde82a91dcc106410ed56ee0a5c1e07/Cargo.toml#L24)
is just "julid"; that's how you refer to it in a `use` statement in your Rust program.
[^httm]: Remember in *Hot Tub Time Machine*, where Rob Cordry's character, "Lew", decides to stay in
the past and use his future-knowledge to amass wealth and power, and he makes his own versions
of things that were done in his past, like forming a glam rock band called "Mötley Lew", and a
search engine called "Loogle", etc.?
[^counter idea]: Putting the counter bits after the timestamp bits was stolen from
<https://github.com/ahawker/ulid/issues/306#issuecomment-451850395>, though they use only 15 bits
for the counter, due to each character in the string encoding representing five bits, and using