My 7-year old, cleaning the playroom with me: Do we have a hot glue gun

[jmax@mastodon.social]

@caroline Do not show him Katamari Damacy under any circumstances.

[viq@social.hackerspace.pl]

@caroline @pthariensflame "hey, remember this thing you asked about the glue gun? Some strangers on the internet think you didn't yet take it to its logical conclusion. Here, let me show you"

[Gæst]

@caroline Is he called Calvin, by any chance?

[pauldrye@spacey.space]

@caroline

[davidhmccoy@mastodon.world]

@caroline

The Gordian knot, solved.

[alpacamale@social.cologne]

@caroline If you have a big mirror in the room, the messy room will look twice as messy, but you also clean up twice as fast.

[iris@neuromatch.social]

@viq @caroline depends entirely on whether you're looping over the mutable list of all objects in the room or presorting and looping over a list of pairs of objects.

[viq@social.hackerspace.pl]

@iris @caroline or you get, literally, linked list
(To me, given 1 2 3 4, "every object to another object" results in 1-2-3-4. Unless I sit and overanalyze)

[gnoll110@ruby.social]

@caroline

I hope you brought him lots of refills.

@Binder

[knowprose@mastodon.social]

@caroline time to update the ISO labels.

[quephird@tech.lgbt]

@caroline @viq @pthariensflame

OMG I LOVE THAT GAME

[argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org]

@SRLevine

As would their surface area.

But! Even if the objects are larger and have more complex surfaces, there are still fewer of them. This makes it easier to move them aside when cleaning the surface they're on (floor, countertop, etc) or collect them into a storage container.

The little one's logic is sound.

@caroline @FinalGirl

[argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org]

@viq

If you glue each object to another object, then you end up with *at most* half as many objects.

Each object could be glued to exactly one other object, in which case you get n÷2 objects. Gluing each object to two other objects results in n÷3 objects. Gluing all objects together results in n÷n objects, i.e. one object.

@caroline

[daveography@yeg.bike]

@caroline

Work smarter not... no wait I guess that would still be harder too

[rk@mastodon.well.com]

@caroline

If y’all haven’t played Katamari Damacy…you should.

[caroline@chaosfem.tw]

@Daveography well it’s hot glue so it’s not working harder, more like working tackier

[fishidwardrobe@mastodon.me.uk]

@caroline admirable logic, but teachable moment about picking the wrong metric

[da_gut@dice.camp]

@caroline he’s not wrong….

[what@chaosfem.tw]

@caroline just tell me how you get a 7 year old to clean a playroom

[caroline@chaosfem.tw]

@what in this extremely rare case he was highly motivated because tomorrow this room will become new baby bunny home base, and needed to be completely clear and cleaned

but yeah no the rest of the time it’s just desperate forms of bribery with a near-0% success rate