I’m always mirin’ my current boss when he opens midnight commander and figures out the answer to his question by looking at the hex of the binary.

I needed to change a string in a compiled binary and as I pulled the project down to change and compile from sources, he suggested we just patch the binary and we did in 1 minute with hexedit.

I really don’t buy that skills don’t transfer. Where this is actually the case must be people getting too locked into abstractions and never really understanding the essence