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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], th

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 https://idiallo.com/blog/sharing-a-name

inigyou 4mo ago
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- firefoxd 4mo ago
  Just FYI, your ip address seems to be flagged as abusive on many services, you might want to check it out. Not sure if it's a VPN, but I've been getting a lot of spam POST requests from you, which is why I flagged it last month.
  - inigyou 3mo ago
    And you know my IP address how?
    - firefoxd 3mo ago
      Because it's my website, I can see the logs and which requests resulted in 403 during the time frame you posted.
mikewarot 4mo ago
The only other Mike Warot I'm aware of lives in London, and works at the British Museum.
normie3000 4mo ago
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!
- foxfired 4mo ago
  Orally they are interchangeable. Though, I only ever append the “a” when speaking in my native language.
pta2002 4mo ago
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!)
- latexr 4mo ago
  > Same with me, apparently three different models think I am a minor football player. I read the parent comment’s blog post right before coming back and reading your comment, and for a moment I thought you meant “models” as in “fashion models” (which makes sense with the footballer) and was expecting a crazy story. That made me remember how much more fun HN was before it became AIN. It can’t be good for any of us to be inundated with the same subject everyday.
- loloquwowndueo 4mo ago
  > one of the few countries that inherits last names from both parents, which helps with differentiation. Not sure I’d call basically every country in Latin America “few”

inigyou 4mo ago

403 Forbidden

firefoxd 4mo ago
Just FYI, your ip address seems to be flagged as abusive on many services, you might want to check it out. Not sure if it's a VPN, but I've been getting a lot of spam POST requests from you, which is why I flagged it last month.
- inigyou 3mo ago
  And you know my IP address how?
  - firefoxd 3mo ago
    Because it's my website, I can see the logs and which requests resulted in 403 during the time frame you posted.

mikewarot 4mo ago

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

normie3000 4mo ago

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!

foxfired 4mo ago
Orally they are interchangeable. Though, I only ever append the “a” when speaking in my native language.

pta2002 4mo ago

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!)

latexr 4mo ago
> Same with me, apparently three different models think I am a minor football player. I read the parent comment’s blog post right before coming back and reading your comment, and for a moment I thought you meant “models” as in “fashion models” (which makes sense with the footballer) and was expecting a crazy story. That made me remember how much more fun HN was before it became AIN. It can’t be good for any of us to be inundated with the same subject everyday.
loloquwowndueo 4mo ago
> one of the few countries that inherits last names from both parents, which helps with differentiation. Not sure I’d call basically every country in Latin America “few”