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Isn’t that name collision?
by brookst 2y ago
Isn’t that name collision?
- iainmerrick 2y agoIf it were a simple name collision in the way the original commenter seemed to mean, you’d search for your name, and see the photo and biography of a different person. The article writer searched for his name, and found his photo attached to somebody else’s biography. That’s an incorrect search result.
- deaddodo 2y agoNo, he found another person's biography near his profile photo for his X blurb. They were in distinctly different content bubbles, even if it visually looked similar.
- advael 2y agoThis reading isn't supported by the text
- kevin_thibedeau 2y agoToo bad Tom Faber is dead so we'll never know the truth.
- brookst 2y agoOne day we’ll understand the mystery surrounding the death of all Tom Fabers at once.
- stefan_ 2y agoAs this article rightly points out, people don't tend to care for why your lossy abstraction is making them out to be dead.
- 8organicbits 2y agoTo me, a name collision is when two or more entities share the same name or ID. What's claimed here is that Google was showing the photo of one person on the bio of another person. That's an identity consolidation error, where two unrelated people are treated as one. The name collision presumably caused the identity consolidation error, but you can have name collisions without identity consolidation errors.