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You can add a screenshot button to the toolbar from the "Customise Toolbar" screen, does the exact same thing as that context menu item.

Same! I also enjoy reading SciPy as "skippy".

Back when I played Minecraft, I wrote one I was pretty pleased with: If you have a stack of items, you can pick up half of them by right-clicking on it, which is very convenient wh…

Others have already mentioned that you can replace "for (const k in props) elem[k] = props[k]" with "Object.assign(elem, props)"; further to that, in modern browsers, you can repla…

I guess you could send changes to the DB on-the-fly inside a transaction, so when the user clicks "save" it's just a matter of running COMMIT? Not sure what effect that would have …

I believe you're thinking of the "Facebook Container" addon - it's "official", in that it's made by people at Mozilla & has their corporate blessing, but it's not installed by defa…

Could you not use permissions.request() [0] to ask for access to a given site on-the-fly, when the user actually visits it? That seems to be how, for example, Reddit Enhancement Su…

Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I find PCRE's rule easy enough: for a character you want to be taken literally, if it's punctuation backslash it, if it's not then don't; any unbackslashed punctuation (or backslas…

> For instance most spray cleaners come in bottles made of high-density polyethylene, which can be readily recycled. But first consumers must remove the spraytops, as they are made…

This post was your 22nd submission in the space of about an hour, in which time there were only 37 submissions from everyone else put together. One point in the new queue features …

> python came up without a platform to support it What about numpy (+ its ecosystem, scipy/pandas/etc)? I get the impression that's contributed a lot to Python's growth over the ye…

So I changed the z-index of Div A to be 5 or something. But it didn’t work! In Firefox, div A was on top, but in Chrome, Div B was on top. Argh! Why? ... why indeed? I can't think …

Sure, I don't disagree - I meant only to add context for anyone reading who was unfamiliar with Haskell, lest they come away with the impression that the lack of a .get()-equivalen…

> Hoogle doesn't seem to find me a function like Rust's .get() in the standard library In practice, you don't really need one - the safe alternative to "xs !! n" is pattern-matchin…

> if you're reducing the list to a scalar, you lose all the benefits this article wants to claim. Not quite - for example, these both benefit from foldr, despite each producing a s…

Neat! I can see myself using several of these. Erratum: the link meant for "openssl-hook" actually takes you to "otherport".

Speaking of "concise", in modern browsers you can replace el.parentNode.removeChild(el) with just el.remove(): https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/ChildNode/r...

The point, as I understand it, is that we've found cases of galaxies that look like they should be about the same mass as each other based on the light they're putting out themselv…

There's Hoogle, for Haskell: https://hoogle.haskell.org/ I don't know if it implements any techniques from that paper, but it does let you search for definitions by type signature.…

Here's one: https://www.jneurosci.org/content/25/38/8593 Abstract: Nicotine is the major neuroactive compound of tobacco, which has, by itself, weak reinforcing properties. It is k…

Very well. In the vast majority of the UK , you don't need ID. That checkmark on your list remains misleading at best.

That list is wrong. I'm in the UK, we don't need ID to register or vote here.

That's just known expenditures by the Internet Research Agency, though. For a full accounting, you'd not only need to know if that was all the IRA spent, you'd also need to include…