It’s really great to be able to browse via all - these days it’s very easy to bubble up in some echo chamber. I’ve been here since the great API apocalypse and you all have made me research so many topics I’d never looked up on my own.

In Finnish there’s a similar term, kuningaspultti or king bolt. Used for things like bolt retaining timing gear on a crank shaft of an engine.

How about other languages?

Find something middle sized. I work in a bakery, around 200 employees. I do some industrial automation, in house IT support and I ended up writing ERP for the joint. I think I could get 20 to 30 percent more at a larger company but here I do what I want and not what I’m told to.

There’s also the fact that in Finnish it’s properly ihmissyöjä (personeater or some such). Kannibaali is quite used loan word but we do have our own.