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Re:Investigating the 900GB “Collection #1-5” password leaks ... by girst on Friday March 08, 2019 @06:01PM (#19343079)
It's not just about "raw" speed, but also about how much mental time you spend thinking about your setup. even if you didn't know about zgrep already, that's at most minutes of thinking ahead vs. potential hours or days setting up cloud providers, big toolchains, and whatever else just to get started.

since we're throwing links around, the (tangentially related) Knuth vs. McIlroy saga comes to mind: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15264997

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Re:Investigating the 900GB “Collection #1-5” password leaks ... by obvious_throwaw on Friday March 08, 2019 @06:37PM (#19343312)
> even if you didn't know about zgrep already

Interestingly, the dumps come with a brief README file telling you... to use the zgrep and example arguments :)

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