It is weird, isn't it? You might almost think that I just typed out the first thing that sprang to mind, and then clicked 'reply', without even wondering whether it made any sense... well, I couldn't possibly comment.
But I do stand by what I said, no matter how much its actual value might be in line with what you paid to see it. Wozniak is massively rich because of his Apple shares, and I claim that does indeed limit his interest in bumming single bytes out of some 6502 code he wrote 40 years ago. And I do also claim it limits how concerned he might be that somebody had spotted some slack in his code.
While I'm on this theme, in fact let me guess that you are not a 6502 programmer yourself either ;) Because if you were, even if you'd never seen the nybble->hex trick before, even if you were actually seriously all like "dude, fuck, that's [etc.]" - not that this isn't a reasonable response to this trick, because it is awesome, and rather surprising - you'd still at least be very well aware that in 2018 this is a hobby that even its devotees, e.g., me, would freely consider quixotic. (And that's being very generous.) And you would therefore appreciate the humour.
But I do stand by what I said, no matter how much its actual value might be in line with what you paid to see it. Wozniak is massively rich because of his Apple shares, and I claim that does indeed limit his interest in bumming single bytes out of some 6502 code he wrote 40 years ago. And I do also claim it limits how concerned he might be that somebody had spotted some slack in his code.
While I'm on this theme, in fact let me guess that you are not a 6502 programmer yourself either ;) Because if you were, even if you'd never seen the nybble->hex trick before, even if you were actually seriously all like "dude, fuck, that's [etc.]" - not that this isn't a reasonable response to this trick, because it is awesome, and rather surprising - you'd still at least be very well aware that in 2018 this is a hobby that even its devotees, e.g., me, would freely consider quixotic. (And that's being very generous.) And you would therefore appreciate the humour.