When writing comments, it is possible to write a space after the last character of the code so that it looks like A:&lt;space&gt;. When writing it within a question, however, it does not work.  But there is another problem which occurs when writing something like this in comments. There, it will look like A:&lt;space&gt;&lt;end of inline code&gt;&lt;no space although " " was written&gt;&lt;normal text&gt; Note that there is no normal space between the space written within the inline code environment and the ongoing normal text. I would like to have a normal space after the end of the code block, too.   only answers one part of the problem: Inline code in a question. &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;a&amp;nbsp;&lt;/code&gt; produces &lt;a&nbsp; and there is a space behind &lt;a&nbsp; if it is set.  For comments, however, &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;a&amp;nbsp;&lt;/code&gt; does not work. Using the NO-BREAK-SPACE as suggested in  to this question does not work either.
I was answering a question on Stack Overflow and required to use a trailing space in one of my code snippets.  I formatted it like so:  `&lt;a `   And it renders without the trailing space: &lt;a  Using the &lt;code&gt; tag does account for trailing spaces, though in my case it busts because of the &lt;. Here's my formatting with the &lt;code&gt; tag:  &lt;code&gt;&lt;a &lt;/code&gt;   Here's how it renders:  (Yes, you should see nothing there).  This is a pretty annoying bug. Can we get it fixed?
Sponsor Gallery, Page, or Something Like That? nhj asked the other day,  In , I wrote:     We were thinking of putting together a "sponsor gallery" of sorts that listed out all of the sponsors with a brief description. Kinda in the vein of what we have on the every-now-and-then  at TDWTF.   So, consider this the discussion for that topic.   What would you like to see in a sponsor gallery? Should it be one big, long list? How does the order get determined? Should we organize the sponsors based on tags (and if so, what about sponsors who target like java and .net)? What about former sponsors... do they get removed from the list, or go on like the "past sponsors" section/page?  Keep in mind that this is not something we intend to charge extra for... this is more a service to the you, the members, than anything else. I've gotten postive feedback from the TDWTF "gallery", as a lot of readers come through RSS, have adblock running, etc. + or @ mark after running 'ls -al' In Mac OS X, run 'ls -al' gives me something like this.   drwxrwxrwx+  4 smcho  staff     136 May  5 09:18 Public drwxr-xr-x+  6 smcho  staff     204 Feb  1  2010 Sites drwxrwxrwx   9 smcho  staff     306 Feb  2  2010 backup drwxr-xr-x@ 36 smcho  staff    1224 Sep  4 22:51 bin    What's the + or @ at the end of the first column means? Is this unique to Mac, or common in UNIX?   ADDED  After Michael Mrozek's answer, I ran 'ls -ale' to get the following.   drwx------+ 66 smcho  staff    2244 Aug 30 13:40 Library  0: group:com.apple.sharepoint.group.3 allow search  1: group:everyone deny delete drwxr-xr-x   3 smcho  staff     102 Sep  4 15:01 Mail drwx------+ 13 smcho  staff     442 Aug 28 17:55 Movies  0: group:everyone deny delete drwx------+  6 smcho  staff     204 Jul  9 09:37 Music  0: group:everyone deny delete drwx------+ 11 smcho  staff     374 Aug 28 16:55 Pictures  0: group:everyone deny delete drwxr-xr-x   3 smcho  staff     102 Mar 18 15:43 Projects drwxrwxrwx+  4 smcho  staff     136 May  5 09:18 Public  0: group:everyone deny delete drwxr-xr-x+  6 smcho  staff     204 Feb  1  2010 Sites  0: group:everyone deny delete   What those appended messages mean? Why do I have them for some of the files? I don't remember doing anything particular for them. Function return object Best practice when analysing pre-post treatment-control designs Imagine the following common design:   100 participants are randomly allocated to either a treatment or a control group the dependent variable is numeric and measured pre- and post- treatment   Three obvious options for analysing such data are:   Test the group by time interaction effect in mixed ANOVA Do an ANCOVA with condition as the IV and the pre- measure as the covariate and post measure as the DV Do a t-test with condition as the IV and pre-post change scores as the DV   Question:    What is the best way to analyse such data?  Are there reasons to prefer one approach over another? X Windows special programs: do some of these still exist? Forgotten PostgreSQL Windows password I read that     A typical stream cipher encrypts plaintext one byte at a time, although a stream cipher may be designed to operate on one bit at a time or on units larger than a byte at a time.   (Source: , William Stallings.)  A block cipher encrypts one block at a time. The block may be of size one byte or more or less. That means we can also encrypt a block of one byte by help of a stream cipher as a stream.  So, what exactly is the difference between a stream cipher and a block cipher? So the question is really hard I think. I tried using a simple way by calculating the probability of each combination that makes a sum divisible by six, but it would take forever. Does anyone have any ideas?  Suppose that we roll a six-sided die ten times. What is the probability that the total of all ten rolls is divisible by six? Tracking Object Position - Firing on a Trajectory An example of the nucleus of an atom being in an excited state is the , which was a theory devised by the Astronomer Fred Hoyle to help describe the vast quantities of carbon-12 present in the universe, which wouldn't be possible without said Hoyle State.  It's easy to visualise and comprehend the excited states of electrons, because they exist on discrete energy levels that orbit the nucleus, so one can easily see how an electron can excite from one energy level into a higher one, hence making it excited.  However, I can't see how the nucleus can get into an excited state, because clearly, they don't exist on energy levels that they can transfer between, but instead it's just a 'ball' of protons and neutrons.  So how can the nucleus of an atom be excited? What makes it excited? Install 0bda:f179 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. (rtl8188fu), or Netgear rtl8812au USB WiFi adapters 19 DEC 2019 - I really, really wanted to use the Cinnamon desktop to set up a new system my 83-year-old Dad could navigate. I struggled to get any USB WiFi device working with Debian using Cinnamon, gave up and installed Ubuntu, but still struggled (I think) because I had immediately changed to the Cinnamon desktop before attempting to get the WiFi device set up.  It just kept prompting for the password, no matter what fixes I tried. Not sure if Cinnamon was the problem, or if I just hadn't found the right solution online. Is "Don't do it" a valid answer? If someone asks how to do XYZ, and you think doing XYZ at all is a Bad Idea™, is it valid to post an answer saying so? You aren't answering the question, but instead, arguing the question's validity.  You could do this in a comment, but I don't think comments carry enough weight on occasion.  For example, I came across this today ; for those not wanting to link away:     I would like to build a wiki based website about professors, so that students can share information and check the reputation of the professor before working for him.   and I really wanted to post an answer that said, "I think this is a very bad idea". (In fact I did anyway, despite awareness that it could get myself flamed.)  Was I wrong? What should I have done instead? How do I get a platform-dependent new line character? How do I get a platform-dependent newline in Java? I can’t use "\n" everywhere. Property of Entire Functions Can a monk make a bonus unarmed attack after using shocking grasp? I'm playing a 5e Wizard/ Monk build. My DM and I are questioning the viability of the cantrip Shocking Grasp. As a monk I can do another unarmed strike as a bonus action after I attack with a melee attack. Being a touch spell, can I punch (touch) with Shocking Grasp and then do my monk's bonus action? How to generate multiple maps where one highlighted attribute changes? I have a layer that contains counties within the state of Washington.    I need to build one map (jpg) for each county.  For that specific map all counties will show as light grey, but the specific county will be green, and the file name will be the county name. Find a recurrence relation for the number of ternary strings of length n that do not contain two consecutive 0s or two consecutive 1s. Note: Problem from "Kenneth Rosen's DM and it's applications" and solution from "Students solution guide for use with ... applications"  Let P(n) be the number of strings not containg two containing two consecutive zeros or two consecutive ones.  I got the answer  P(n)=P(n-1)+2P(n-2)+2P(n-3)+...+2P(0) +2  but then the book says the sequence also satisfies the recurrence relation  P(n)=2P(n-1)+P(n-2). I am not able to understand this part. I have a final exam tomorrow for fluid mechanics and I was just looking over the practice exam questions. They do not provide solutions. But pretty much I have to define pressure at a point and also say why pressure is scalar instead of a vector.  I am thinking pressure at a point is $P=\lim_{\delta A \to 0} \frac{\delta F}{\delta A}$. Please let me know if I am wrong.   But I do not know at all why pressure is a scalar instead of a vector. I know it has something to do with $d \mathbf{F}=-Pd \mathbf{A}$ How can I set the box plot (i.e. axis) ratio of a usual 2D plot to a given value, say 4:3.  I don't want to use unit vector ratio since the quantities of the independent and dependent variables are of completely different orders of magnitude. Is there a single word that expresses "music end-users / enthusiasts"? To help a soon-to-be sister site out , I was thinking English.SE perhaps could lend a helping hand as this is the best place for "word choice and usage".  I'm not looking for "naming", but rather want to see what shorter words exist for expressing "music end-users/enthusiasts", these could be "journalists, reviewers, music fans and listeners".  I've tried, but can't come up with something... . From Urban Dictionary I have  which is another word for a Music enthusiast of the Modern age; but yeah, it's UD and I don't think selvyn is really English to begin with...  So... do you know of a single word to express "music end-users/enthusiasts"?