• @Dasus
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      289 months ago

      Could’ve gone with Hristopher, I guess?

      • kase
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        Christofer

        E: scrolled down to realize I’m like the third person to say this. So original 🙄🤷

    • kase
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      328 months ago


      Lmao

      • @FooBarrington
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        178 months ago

        Falsehoods programmers believe about names:

          1. Names are representable using an n-dimensional infinite canvas. Nobody has a name requiring an (n+1)-dimensional representation.
        • @SkyeHarith
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          38 months ago

          Strongly resisting the urge to rename myself to the concept of ℂⁿ⁺¹.

          How do you spell it? You can’t. Muahahaha

    • @NorthWestWind
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      88 months ago

      That’s why you should store names as images

    • @[email protected]
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      48 months ago

      One of my financial accounts wouldn’t let me transfer money to another because my name wasn’t exactly the same on that account.

    • Echo Dot
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      48 months ago

      Alright alright but surely people’s names are diverse enough such that no million people share the same name.

      Who thinks that?

      There’s about 5,000 people working at the organization I work at and there’s loads of people who have the same name, first and last.

  • @aeronmelon
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    429 months ago

    Christophe sounds cooler, anyway.

    • Gristle
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      319 months ago

      Every substitute teacher I ever had called me Christophe thanks to the school district’s character limit.

      • @spiffynova
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        219 months ago

        As a fellow Christophe, I too have seen this all my life.
        It’s comical that so many companies and systems just decided “No one will ever have a name longer than 10 characters, right?”

        • Gristle
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          79 months ago

          It’s wild considering it was one of the most popular names for a while. There were 3 other Christophe’s in my class at one point.

        • @[email protected]
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          69 months ago

          South Korea actually has a law that nobody can have names longer than 5 symbols since a traditional name is never longer than that and it’s all their systems are setup to handle.

    • The Assman
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      79 months ago

      This immediately made me think of Frozen. That’s what having kids does to your brain.

  • @_sideffect
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    379 months ago

    You write Chris, and then they lock your account because they think you’re fraudulent

    • @ooterness
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      49 months ago

      So is the poop emoji.

  • Veraxus
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    148 months ago

    I also love when systems tell me my name is “invalid” because it has a character they don’t like.