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There's different kinds of "works for a living", e.g. I write software for a living and employ statistical methods for a living, and it has to actually work, not merely look plausible, or I will not get paid. I also do art for a living, and here it has to look plausible, and if I do very plausible looking clouds and mountains that doesn't make me much of a meteorology expert or a geophysicist. (It does make me a bit of an expert because human visual system is amazingly sensitive to things being wrong, but only a bit, and its very superficial expertise).
Ohh, and also: actually, my expertise in photo-realistic CGI should actually lower the strength of any photographic evidence I present.
Are you saying the clouds did not spell "FAI is scam"?
On a completely off-topic note:
I find this interesting, because I've toyed with the idea of trying to do both a technical job and some sort of artistic thing on the side (but am not sure how I'd go about the latter). How is that working out for you?
I have it rather mixed, actually. I write computer graphics software (which often employs some quite advanced Monte-Carlo method, or tries to approximate one). And I use it too. There's the site . Works out fine, I ended up making quite good money making a videogame.
When I try to go to the site it says the certificate is untrusted.
Fixed, I accidentally used https because i got there from admin interface.