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Most technologies continue to improve with innovation, like WiFi. What is a technology that was nearly perfect upon conception? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 weeks ago by electronVolt@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I've never used or dissassembled an American microwave, so wouldn't know about anything American-specific.

Having a ceramic plate at the end of the wave guide isn't evidence that there's not a wave stirrer on the other side of the plate or part way along the wave guide. As far as the microwaves are concerned, the ceramic plate is a hole, though, because (unless the manufacturer selected a stupid material), it should be about as transparent to microwaves as the air is.