Here is a picture of myself, @mattblaze, and Susan Landau with our Flame awards. A very few of you will recognize the T-shirt I'm wearing—it's a Usenix 10th Anniversary shirt…
Okay so… this week there were two big science announcements, along kinda similar lines
One, the discovery of a "cosmic microwave background" for gravity waves
Two, the first successful data from neutrino astronomy. I think they like did an entire observation of a galaxy (the milky way?) in just neutrino output?
What I'm trying to figure out: Do these observations give us any new data, by themselves ("yet")? Or is the scientific advancement just that we were able to measure the sky new ways?
@mcc per editor's summary and Quanta gloss, the neutrino measurement is new data confirming a prediction of prior theory (local gamma sources produce neutrinos too, as expected), which is useful additional support for theory, but doesn't require new science, so is less exciting than if it had defied the prediction. (Similarly, nHz GW were predicted & confirmed.)
@EndlessMason@Perl i indeed have Image::Magick installed to System Perl, and not to any of my PerlBrew perls, which is odd, since i usually put anything i've ever used in the @fuller library.
I have used ImageMagick via shell script, but i don't recall if i've used it via Perl except for implicitly via GD and Imager.
@nixCraft Whilst a deb-based Gnu/linux is my daily driver, i have used macOS and it's *BSD cousins as needed, and Win when necessary. Which reminds me, i need to set up a smoketest on the commodity win box.