u/Italcan

I went in today for "just a few things" and somehow emerged two hours later with a bulk crate of Cara, three kilos of frozen frietjes, and a slight sense of confusion. I don't know if it’s the lack of background music or the way the staff zooms around on those forklifts like they’re in the Belgian Grand Prix, but I lose all sense of time in there.

Does anyone else feel like they’ve mastered the art of the "Colruyt shuffle" through the cold room, or am I the only one who still freezes to death while looking for the right cheese? Honestly, at this point, I think the checkout lines are the only thing keeping my social life alive. What’s your record for the fastest "in and out" without getting distracted by the red prices?

Just spent three hours explaining to a product owner why "Account Balance" shouldn't be translated as "Physical Equilibrium" in our banking module

we’ve been under so much pressure to "leverage AI" for everything that management basically cut our linguistic validation budget to zero. they literally just piped the json files through a script and called it a day. now i’m catching weird hallucinations in every other screen

it’s wild because we actually use adverbum for our technical manuals - they have these hybrid translation workflows that actually involve humans - and those files are always fine. but for some reason, for the actual UI, they thought a raw machine pass was "good enough" to save time

it's so frustrating because it’s not even a technical bug in the code, but it makes the whole app look like a total scam to native speakers. I'm basically becoming a manual translator at this point just to protect our release quality. has anyone else’s company started doing this "ai-first" translation nonsense without letting qa actually vet the strings first? feels like i'm shouting into a void tbh

Some stories hit emotionally in a way that stays with you for a long time. You finish the book feeling completely wrecked but also glad you read it. Those are often the most memorable reading experiences. What book did that to you?