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As the self-titled “largest online marketplace for authenticated, resale luxury goods,” The RealReal (TRR) has spent a decade striving to become profitable as a niche company, catering to a niche clientele, within a niche retail category. Through it all, TRR’s founder, chairperson and CEO, Julie Wainwright, has stood as an unwavering voice for the company and the broader reCommerce cause, defending both the viability of the business as well as the much-needed sustainability that it offered by giving clothing and accessories a second life.  That is, until Tuesday afternoon (June 7), when the San Francisco-based executive suddenly announced she was stepping...

In the 1963-64 season, Hanna-Barbera would introduce its “New Cartoon Show” syndication package consisting of Wally Gator, Lippy the Lion and Hardy Har Har, and Touche Turtle cartoons, in plot-restrictive five minute running lengths. On at least half of the occasions when aviation was involved, these would follow in the tradition of earlier studio efforts, by using helicopters instead of planes. Among these included Touche’s Out of This Whirl, where Touche plays a game of helicopter hide-and-seek with The Great Granooka, a martian leader determined to drive off the air a kids’ show host impersonating a Martian, for giving the...

The name tells you absolutely nothing about the exercise, but lifters laud the good morning for its ability to increase hamstring and glute strength, teach proper hip hinge mechanics, and help you to add pounds to compound movements like the back squat and deadlift. If you’re an athlete that plays a more dynamic sport (football, basketball, or soccer, for example), the good morning’s hip-strengthening properties will allow you to run faster and jump higher.  There is one downside to the good morning: a higher risk of back injury. Loading weight onto your back and then leaning forward is risky and, when done incorrectly or hurriedly, can put...

[ comments ]I've gotten a bunch of emails asking for advice on how to learn Common Lisp in the present day. I decided to write down all the advice I've been giving through email and social media posts in the hopes that someone might find it useful. One disclaimer up front: this is a road to Common Lisp, not the road to Common Lisp. It's what I followed (without some of the dead ends) and has a lot of my personal opinions baked in, but it is by no means the only way to learn the language. This post has...

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