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Wouldn't anyone? That's a lot of manic energy to keep going.

Last I heard, his housekeeper was holding him prisoner in his house. May or may not be true.

I dunno man, last time I listened to the cool kids I got into trouble...

Just do what you can, we appreciate your hard work. Hopefully things slow down a bit for you.

Neat.

PM me your details and I'll see if I can't get it out to you by end of the week. I need to do a quick test with it to make sure it's working.

I always wondered who the heck they were trying to sell a $20k workstation to. SGI might have been able to get away with that back in the day, but I think those days are long gone.

I just checked used prices on Mac Studios with 64gb, Looks like they are running $2200-$2500. I'm liking that price a lot more Any ideas when the new Mac Pros are supposed to be coming around?

I've got a spare quad core i7 with I think 8GB if you're interested.

I think what bugs me most about the M2 Mac Minis is they didn't make the base RAM at least 32GB. Or if they were gonna go with 16 as the base, then 32 should have been a $200 bump at most. I'd be curious to know how an M2 Mac Mini or a base model Studio would compare to say, a 16 core Ryzen box with a similar amount of RAM and a decent GPU. A 16 core Ryzen box with 64GB RAM, 3060ti and 1TB SSD is comparable in cost to a base Studio or fully maxed out Mini.

This is interesting, I have an older Mac Mini that I picked up for helping me in my day job. Thought about getting an M2 Mac Mini but every time I spec one out I get sticker shock.

Congrats Dan and Steve! I liked that Dan managed to squeeze a story into the constraints of the contest, good job! Steve, I like your old man character, will we ever see more of him?

So if all it can do is make copies of stuff, how do we know there's not already one running Disney?

It's always nice to see someone complete a long-term project. I liked the story. I guess that's why they call them hooters, huh?

You might be able to use AM to make a 3D model that could be used in the etching process, but it sounds like you'd either need a CNC machine or maybe one of those laser engravers to carry out the etching process, I think it would be way too difficult to try and do something like that by hand.

Very nice work, Michael. How long did it take you to model him? Is he rigged as well?

Sounds good, no rush. I just wanted to alert you to a potential problem, that could affect new users in addition to existing ones.

I don't remember seeing these guys on a CD, must have been one of the years I passed on updating.

LOL, I like it.

So I've had to revalidate my account with my old email address because I couldn't get it validated with the NEW address, never received the validation email despite numerous attempts with 2 different email addresses. Likewise, I tried creating a whole new account with one of my alternate emails, thinking that might work. That did not work. Not sure what is going on with your validation process, but I would rather not leave things as they stand.

Jason, Thanks for your comments. I am not worried about any financial data being lost, I have seen some unusual activity on number of forums I belong to lately, but that could be attributed to script kiddies jiggling the locks, or bots or other automated tools. Working in IT, I'm fairly security conscious and frequently rotate passwords to new, secure passwords. I had thought about switching to a password manager some time ago but am concerned about the ones that store the DB in the cloud. I believe at least one of the major password managers was breached in the last few years. I don't expect that we require any especially exotic security measures on our little forum here, I guess I was just playing "Devi's advocate" so to speak. Speaking of which, it's about time for me to audit my systems again.

I also think I'd be more impressed with AI "art" if the people didn't all have either six fingers or lobster hands, and mangled faces.

I will admit that I'm more than a bit concerned about AI being used in the creative realms. What's left for people to do? It's one thing to have robots that can flip burgers and stack boxes all day, but if you add creative pursuits into the mix, then that doesn't leave much (if anything) that only a human is still good at. In fact, what about an expert based system that has access to all of case law on a given subject and does most of what a paralegal or (dare I say) first-year associate at a law firm would do? I'm assuming other fields that have a fairly rigorous, rules-based approach to their practice might also be automated. https://businesslawtoday.org/2022/02/how-ai-is-reshaping-legal-profession/

I guess I better prepare for the update then.

Ah, but this isn't going to stop the real problem, which is reusing passwords across multiple websites. While 2 factor authentication that is email or SMS message based is not foolproof, it is a bit more secure if you have an option for it. Again, I'm not arguing against the change, I welcome anything that will improve security. I just don't see much of a difference between someone using the password that they found in hacked password database (that you used for a dozen other sites) to try and login to your AM account....I mean it is sort of moot at that point whether they are using it with a display name or an email address, no?