Toyota’s Japanese production was halted due to insufficient disk space

[WolframaticAlpha]

On 9/7/2023 at 12:15 PM, leadeater said:

Just be careful, in 50 years you might need to replace it, it is a Toyota after all. Luckily also being a Toyota 90% of the parts will still be exactly the same 

50 years? Bullshit. Toyota's are unreliable pieces if crap that due in 48 years and 9 months.

[leadeater]

56 minutes ago, WolframaticAlpha said:

50 years? Bullshit. Toyota's are unreliable pieces if crap that due in 48 years and 9 months.

Well I have to say modern Hilux isn't as indestructible as the good old 90's ones. Damn newfangled electronics thingamajiggers

[divito]

18 hours ago, StDragon said:

WTF are you talking about?! Kisai simply pointed out that China is an industrial nation rife with waste. Often it's make-work programs under the guise of industrialization.

I was just pointing out the image only referencing China is a bit disingenuous, as this practice isn't exclusive to China. 

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Unfortunately Toyota isn't the only company to suffer something like this, and they definitely won't be the last. Many large corporations that end up having many international subsidiaries/hubs, and utilize legacy infrastructure, will face problems like this, especially one where administration and logistical operations have been a bit stale. The timeframe of implementation and the active lifespan of its deployment means knowledgeable IT/engineering staff are fewer and far between when certain issues arise. 

[thechinchinsong]

20 hours ago, StDragon said:

WTF are you talking about?! Kisai simply pointed out that China is an industrial nation rife with waste. Often it's make-work programs under the guise of industrialization.

Nothing is more illustrative of that fact than Ghost Cities.

"Reporting in 2018, Shepard noted that "Today, China’s so-called ghost cities that were so prevalently showcased in 2013 and 2014 are no longer global intrigues. They have filled up to the point of being functioning, normal cities"

 

• Batarags, Lina. "China has at least 65 million empty homes — enough to house the population of France. It offers a glimpse into the country's massive housing-market problem". Business Insider. Retrieved 11 July 2022.
• VanderKlippe, Nathan (2 January 2017). "China's growth breathes new life into old ghost towns". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 9 February 2019.
• "China's Ghost Cities Are Finally Stirring to Life After Years of Empty Streets". Bloomberg.com. 1 September 2021. Retrieved 23 September 2021.
• Shepard, Wade. "Ghost Towns Or Boomtowns? What New Cities Really Become". Forbes.

I wouldn't say that they're make work programs under the guise of industrialization. It's more like state-sponsored capitalism betting on future growth and real-estate speculation. One where the growth part didn't happen as much as they wanted, and the real-estate speculation part definitely did.

[Kisai]

On 9/9/2023 at 6:09 AM, divito said:

I was just pointing out the image only referencing China is a bit disingenuous, as this practice isn't exclusive to China. 

 

The point was "manufacturing vehicles to keep the pipeline full, despite some % of these vehicles are just going to rot in a field somewhere"

 

All I did was search "abandoned new cars" in regards to leadeaters comment, because YT had been popping up a lot of "overdramatic X country is failing" videos, but it's kinda hard to fake finding fields of NEW cars. 

Here's a fun fact, I can find something in my local metro area that looks like this:

 

Now, I can assure you what this is, (and this is only half the image, since it's triangular) since I've walked across the bridge before and it piqued my curiosity.

https://www.portvancouver.com/cargo-terminals/automobiles/

This is two terminals where cars are unloaded from Asia and even the United States. 

 

Where as at least in one of those videos from asia, those are fleets of insured, plated, vehicles. If they were just being made for parts, then there would be no point in insuring them. No, at least in that country, it appears the reason is to fake numbers up the chain. Cars made, cars "on the road", insured vehicles, etc. 

 

Oh and those ghost cities? Some were left empty so long they had to start demolishing them.

 

[waterfish]

On 9/6/2023 at 9:26 PM, Forbidden Wafer said:

People really overestimate large companies. Remember sony storing credentials, credit-card info and more in plaintext files? Or how Lockheed martin got invaded and their blueprints stolen due to RSA being compromised by an adobe flash bug? A bug explored by an excel script that got opened by the HR personel?

If people only knew how many 23 year old college grads who spend their weekends getting high at music festivals and have never paid taxes in their life, who have access to thousands if not millions of plaintext files like this....

 

Source:  I was one, and so were many of my friends.  Also talked to many Software Dev's at music festivals who told me the same thing.

[StephanTW]

Clearly they did not go for that drive's extended warrenty