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Re:Ask HN: How to Take Good Notes? on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @01:58PM (#22477614)
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Re:Ask HN: Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57? on Thursday November 16, 2017 @03:31PM (#15716323)
It appears that this process has been streamlined a bit. If you right-click in a search field on any site, the context menu has an option to "Add a keyword for this search." The new bookmark will then be created with the "%s" string in the appropriate position in the URL to make this work.

I've set it up for a number of sites since converting over to Firefox yesterday and have yet to find a site that this method doesn't work for.

...which we do. Getting into Austin from one of the suburbs is a nightmare during rush hour and still a slow 'stop-and-go' at all other times.
Re:Facebook’s automatic alt-text for images on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @09:27AM (#11438589)
Last July, I lead a project in support of a federal agency to analyze current business processes and identify weaknesses in the agency Section 508 office. My work focused primarily on externally accessible internet sites and one of the most common 508 violations that we encountered was the lack of ALT-text on images. This agency utilized a number of automated scanning tools and processes, but lacked any ability to efficiently remediate these errors. While we never talked more than from a conceptual standpoint, a coworker and I discussed something along the lines of what Facebook has accomplished here through the use of Google's Neural Networks. Very cool to see this advancement come to life.