Reminds me of John Carmack complaining that it was quicker to send a packet of data internationally compared to drawing on screen: https://www.geek.com/chips/jo

Reminds me of John Carmack complaining that it was quicker to send a packet of data internationally compared to drawing on screen: https://www.geek.com/chips/john-carmack-explains-why-its-faster-to-send-a-packet-to-europe-than-a-pixel-to-your-screen-1487079/ https://www.geek.com/chips/john-carmack-explains-why-its-fas... More relevant to the article, I fully agree with the authors upset at trying to do two parts of the same task in google maps, it's entirely infuriating. Edit: duplicate submission: one directly on twitter, this one through hte threaded reader. The other submission has >350 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21835417 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21835417