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foxfiredyesterday at 10:04 PM4 repliesview on HN

6 Football (soccer) players share my name and I still am at the top. Type "SEO" and I'll DM you my one little weird trick. /jk

Fun story about my name [0], the bank couldn't mail me my debit card because the mailman kept crossing my address off the envelop.

[0]: https://idiallo.com/blog/sharing-a-name


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pta2002today at 7:49 AM

Same with me, apparently three different models think I am a minor football player. Looking it up, I am not the first result for my full name, but there also is no minor football player with that name, so…

Also have an extremely common name in Portugal (just in my company there are 4 people with my name, including my previous manager), only slightly helped by the fact that we’re one of the few countries that inherits last names from both parents, which helps with differentiation. At least I did snag pedroalves.pt when I found it available!

EDIT: Username does better, but for some reason Kimi seems to think I do algorithmic competitions, and Llama 3.1 thinks I am a German football club (no longer just a player, a whole club now!)

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normie3000today at 4:23 AM

Very fun!

One thing confused me in the story: are "Ibrahim" and "Ibrahima" interchangeable?

Naming children after grandparents gets particularly fun when meeting up with cousins!

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mikewarottoday at 1:51 AM

The only other Mike Warot I'm aware of lives in London, and works at the British Museum.

inigyoutoday at 12:19 AM

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