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Re:The battle to invent the automatic rice cooker on Saturday August 01, 2020 @09:56AM (#24020443)
I was told by a rice cooker salesperson (in Asia) that Korean brands should be avoided if you plan to cook brown rice. Apparently brown rice isn’t eaten in Korea so the machines don’t have a brown rice setting.

I don’t know if the former is true but the latter seemed to be on the ones I saw.

Re:IBM will offer free COBOL training on Saturday April 11, 2020 @09:20AM (#22841532)
Every mainframe I worked on until the mid-80s was turned on by the first person to arrive in the morning and turned off by the last to leave in the evening.
Re:Coronavirus outbreak likely now ‘gathering steam’ on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @07:28PM (#22304517)
As of yesterday it’s 47 cases in Singapore.

https://www.moh.gov.sg/2019-ncov-wuhan

It's also available in the Mac version of Pages.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pages/id361309726

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