Just enter “https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/” OR ‘.’ (without quotes) as the value for Category base.
Seemed to work perfectly when I tested it. I’d be interested in hearing if anyone discovers other dangers to doing this, other than the obvious potential of collisions between posts, pages, and categories.
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