Gaslight is a 1940 British film directed by Thorold Dickinson which stars Anton Walbrook and Diana Wynyard, and features Frank Pettingell. The film adheres more closely to the original play upon which it is based – Patrick Hamilton's Gas Light (1938) – than the better-known 1944 MGM adaptation. The play had been shown on Broadway as Angel Street, so when the film was released in the United States it was given the same name. According to the TCM database, it has also been released in the UK as A Strange Case of Murder.
== Plot ==
Alice Barlow (Marie Wright) is murdered by an unknown man, who then...
Gaslight is an American 1944 mystery-thriller film adapted from Patrick Hamilton's 1938 play Gas Light. It was the second version to be filmed, following the British film Gaslight, directed by Thorold Dickinson and released in 1940. This 1944 version was directed by George Cukor and starred Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Joseph Cotten, and 18-year-old Angela Lansbury in her screen debut. It had a larger scale and budget than the earlier film, and lends a different feel to the material. To avoid confusion with the first film, this version was in the UK originally given the title The Murder in Thornton...
Strange show. But somewhat symptomatic of late 20th century US culture. I watched the parking garage episode yesterday. Very clever.
@derobert Dunno, maybe he got bored. And had enough money.
Though he could have done it for another year and given it to charity. There sure is a lot of money in advertising.
A tv show about four people who hang out for no particular reason, don't even seem to like each other, and have random trivial things happen to them . Wild ratings success. There's a lesson in there somewhere.
We're certainly happy to help you solve any issues you run into while writing your shell script, but most of the experts here are much less willing to write the whole thing for you (unless its particularly interesting). So, please edit your question to tell us what you've tried—narrow it down to the particular part that isn't working, etc. I'd use a combination of head, tr, and sed—or just perl... — derobert49 secs ago
The issue with retag being different from edit is moot, as retag is gone.
With edit, it is now enabled on deleted questions, unless they are self deletes, as this can open a window to abuse (self delete, edit and later undelete immediately).
You can now also see revisions on your own deleted qu...
@FaheemMitha It's OK. Last night I was troubleshooting an issue while trying to play anime. For some reason, mpv wasn't reading the file-specific .conf file (which in my case contains volume leveling).
Well, it only worked when I ran mpv directly, not via my script that automatically plays the next episode, marks it played, etc.
After much debugging, including looking through a bunch of strace output...
I found that the script was clearly saying that it was playing a different episode than I was playing by hand. OOOPS.
@derobert yes, it's annoying when that kind of thing happens.
Sometimes seeing the obvious can be the hardest thing. That's one reason working with other people is a good idea. Your blind spots are rarely someone elses.
@FaheemMitha That's one of those things that's almost impossible to ask on Stack Exchange. Either it'd be a massive TLDR or I'd manage to boil it down enough that it'd be impossible to miss the file names being different (or rapidly closed as a typo)
#!/usr/bin/perl
use 5.018;
use strict;
use warnings qw(all);
use autodie;
use Sort::Naturally qw(ncmp);
use IO::Prompter;
use File::Temp qw(tempdir);
use POSIX qw(mkfifo);
use Data::Dump qw(pp);
my @VIDEO_EXTENSIONS = qw( asf avi flv mkv mov mp4 mpeg mpg ogm rm webm wmv );
my $FILE_MANGLER = sub {
local $_ = shift;
s/\(.+?\)//g;
s/\[.+?\]//g;
s/\{.+?\}//g;
y/_-/ /;
s/\s+/ /g;
s/^\s+//g;
return $_;
};
my $FORCE_LAST = qr/\b (?: (?:NC)?ED\d? | (?:NC)?OP\d? | xxLASTxx ) \b/x;
1 == @ARGV || 2 == @ARGV or die "Usage: $0 show-directory [n]";
@FaheemMitha that's the script, as you can see fairly long for a question...
I'm not sure while FILE_MANGLER is like that. I think it used to be an array of multiple functions.
@derobert Sure. I was not suggesting one can ask about just anything on SE and get a useful answer. Though often one can boil down a complicated question into something simpler, which can then be asked. Or you might figure out the answer yourself by doing so.
@derobert That's a complicated script.
But I've seen longer things on SE.
Actions: kick-mute this user.
That sounds fairly aggressive. What does it do? And are there any volunteers to be kick-muted?
Hey, I asked basically this question here not long ago
A search with locate finds paths in the filesystem.
Often, you know a priori you are interested in either files only, or directories only.
A 'locate' search often returns many results. It would be useful to include only one of the types in the result, because it helps shorten the output.
But the...
@Fabby Dunno. I'm sure if Gilles was here, he'd know the answer. Though he is technically here - he's in 10 chat rooms at the moment, including this one.
When working with others around a shared monitor or via screen-sharing (e.g. Google Hangout), I often use text-scale-adjust (C-x C-+) to let others more easily read my screen.
I would love to be able to also transiently increase the text size of the mode line and minibuffer in the selected frame...
@FaheemMitha It should basically throw someone out of the room. Or at least prevent them from talking, they can still read it AFAIK (which can't be prevented, as anonymous can read it)
@FaheemMitha you're a room owner, so you can do that to any non-mod here.
Ohhhh. I checked the biggest rooms on chat.SE, so I didn't stumble across the big ones on chat.SO.
C++ room is huge on chat.SO. Same with the other big langauges—PHP, JS, C#, Python. But not Java. That's smaller than even R.
At least the C# people have a sense of humor, it appears. "Th̶̰͖͖̗͇e͏͙͈ ̞̜̼̱̺͖̰͟p̵̪̮̙̘̲̪̘r̘̭̼͍͝ͅe̙͓̣̺͞ͅf͏̭̳̭͔͎e̜̺͇ṟ͕͙͈͔̘r̢e͎̫͙̫̣̗d̴͕̟̤͇ͅ ̬̞̞̱͞p̸͓͖̤̝̺̟ŗ̪̭̪̤̬̫o̱g̘̜ṛa̩͈m̸̲̥̮͍͚̫̮m̪̩̲̱̦͖͕i̳̪͕̫̲n̜̻͞g ̸͉̹̮͚͉̜̤l̗̜͙̝͎̖͍͞ḁ̖̳̙̠ͅn̯̯̫g̲̲͚͡ṷ̩̟͈̞̺a͏͙̰̭ͅg̨͙̳̩͙̙e̱ ̷͇o̮̪̗̥f̷ ̀C̜t̢̙̫͙͇̣̯̠ḩ͉̟̗̪̼u̵̬̻l̯̠h̨̲̣͇͈̲u͇̲̞̫͕̻̩. "
Ah, too bad. If they deleted you, then you could invite a sock puppet with you, and laugh at their undefined behavior from using delete instead of delete[].
@derobert I don't do C++ jokes, sorry. Mostly, I run away screaming from things C++. If I can.
I was talking to Robert on #lisp who said (this would actually be a good SE question) that using RAII is a 10% performance hit. So his reasoning is, if you are going to do that, switch to a language with automatic garbage collection. Like CL.
You know C++. What do you think?
He said professional programmers are basically clueless about performance. They use C++ because they think it is fast. They then do all sorts of things that will slow it down.
Which kind of destroys the only reason to use C++.
I've got fairly good performance out of C++ myself, I think. But I'm no expert.
@muru shouldn't IIT students be too busy to answer questions on SE?
@FaheemMitha It's been a while since I've done serious C++ work. I can believe manual memory management is a performance hit, depending on the workload (as it may lead to cache thrashing)
If you're constantly allocating and deallocating things, that's going to cost. Of course, if you're constantly allocating, and then the GC struggles to keep up...
So there is an advantage to batching together cleanup—the cleanup code, data structures, etc. get loaded into the CPU caches once, run, and then they're gone.
@FaheemMitha Sure, you could write a smart-pointer class that shoved all its work on to a queue, and then only did all the deallocates, destructor calls, etc. every N msec.
But it'd break RAII, which is mainly a convenience thing.
I'm considering buying a new split unit air conditioner for my
home. Actually, this will be for a room that is planned as a
short-term rental. I'm located in Bombay, India, now referred to as
Mumbai.
One question I am facing is whether an inverter or a regular
air-conditioner is a better choice....
Is there a way to reboot a Linux system (Debian in particular) without rebooting the hardware?
I have a RAID controller that takes a bit to get itself running before the OS starts up, and I would like it if there was a way to quickly reboot the Linux OS without having to go through the whole reb...
@derobert legendary, as in, we've heard about them from our grandparents but never actually saw them
GC pauses were a problem in the 1960s. Unless you have real-time needs (in which case you can't use most malloc implementations either), they aren't a concern with modern GCs.
@FaheemMitha Telling you to buy an HVAC instead of an air-conditioner is not something you want to hear then? However, if you invest a bit more now, you can take it into the flat you'll eventually buy...
@FaheemMitha Not where my flat is... But then the climate is quite the opposite of yours... ;-)