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> Reading hex and seeing ASCII is a very useful skill to develop. I found it to be also quite draining when I was reverse engineering an old proprietary softwa
by eric_h 10y ago
> Reading hex and seeing ASCII is a very useful skill to develop.
I found it to be also quite draining when I was reverse engineering an old proprietary software system to develop a tool to import/export data to it. Definitely put my brain in a weird place after spending hours pouring through network dumps and determining how it all worked. It did kind of feel like that scene from the matrix where what's-his-name is staring at the streaming code on the screen, though :P
- nbadg 10y agoThis might be stating the obvious, but I think that probably has more to do with the quantity of ASCII codes, and less to do with the "translation" itself. I have significantly more difficulty reading hex dumps than I ever had reading G-code (that's the machine code that runs CNC mills, most 3d printers, etc). After a few years of working in a shop, I was fluent enough in G-code to be literally talking in it (on occasion, when appropriate) while debugging things. Hex dumps are far, far more intimidating for me to manage.