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

[bytebro@mastodonapp.uk]

@caroline

The kid has promise. Get him into University asap!

[viq@social.hackerspace.pl]

@caroline technically if you glue every object to another object that's only one object at the end. Though it may be a bit difficult to put away

[pthariensflame@social.treehouse.systems]

@SRLevine @caroline What matters for cleaning is surface area, though, so it’s still an improvement.

[pthariensflame@social.treehouse.systems]

@viq @caroline At that point, by virtue of it being all of the objects and therefore belonging all of the places, it is automatically already put away where it is.

[viq@social.hackerspace.pl]

@pthariensflame @caroline especially if you consider "shelf" or "box", and even more so "room" as "object"

[terryhancock@realsocial.life]

@caroline
That kid is going places!

[caroline@chaosfem.tw]

@viq @pthariensflame I think the direction I’m getting here is that I need to introduce him to Katamari Damacy

[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