Readit News[1] https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/1427-broomgate-a-curl...
Of course, if you have kids, I can understand keeping the subscription meter running.
'Whet' means to sharpen (whetstones are used to sharpen knives, for example), so whetting one's appetite means to sharpen appetite, or to make one hungrier (for knowledge, food, whatever).
You're preaching to the choir. The overwhelming majority of people worship unit tests like dogma. There's almost no point in saying the above. It's like saying it's a little sad to see some people who are so dismissive about eating and breathing to stay alive.
Your next part is the one that's interesting. Mocking 80 percent of a system to get unit tests to work. I've seen so much of this from developers who don't even realize the pointlessness of what theyre doing that it's nuts. They worship test so much that they can't see the nuance and the downside.
Take this article. This article is literally presenting evidence for why unit tests are bad. He literally created an error that would not have existed in the first place we're it not for his tests. Yet he has to spin it in such a strange way to make it support the existing dogma of test test test.
When I was younger and in shape bulked up with single digit body fat it was not useful. I was obese/overweight in BMI only.
Now that I am more sedentary due to office job and less time because I have kids it’s a useful gauge to help find my ideal weight.
Aren't you describing your own comment? Aren't upvotes pushing that to the top? So isn't HN the thing that needs to be banned according to your comment?
[0] https://imgur.com/we-should-improve-society-somewhat-T6abwxn