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Re:“Username cannot contain 'clyde'” by Dylan16807 on Sunday November 20, 2022 @11:25PM (#33688746)
We can put bounds on it.

Here's an easy lower bound, for the context of avoiding collisions: The name has to have been used by at least two different humans.

Or to get closer to a reasonable bound, 100 humans.

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Re:“Username cannot contain 'clyde'” by BlueTemplar on Monday November 21, 2022 @07:01AM (#33691617)
How would you know how much it has been used ?

We don't even have a database for all the humans alive today, much less one for the last 400 000 years...

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Re:“Username cannot contain 'clyde'” by Dylan16807 on Monday November 21, 2022 @01:34PM (#33696113)
You can be pretty confident without a comprehensive database. If you're unsure about a name then don't pick that one.

And people that are dead won't be inconvenienced, so you can ignore them.

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Re:“Username cannot contain 'clyde'” by jodrellblank on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @02:11AM (#33702971)
People (and lawyers) might get annoyed if you called your bot Avici, even though he is dead and won’t personally be inconvenienced by it.
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Re:“Username cannot contain 'clyde'” by Dylan16807 on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @02:30AM (#33716242)
Naming something after a celebrity is a different issue entirely. It's actually a bigger problem if the celebrity has a non-regular name!
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