Programming

Exponential backoff with jitter: 64 of 100 LLM calls still failed

Originally published at tensorust.com . TL;DR: I fired 100 LLM calls at once into a rate limiter that refills 10 requests a second, using the defaul…

Why I Chose Computer Science and What I Hope to Build

Hello! I'm Jesie T. Biago , a 1st year BSCS student at Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Muntinlupa. I chose Computer Science because I want to understand te…

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Saku: How I Went From Per-Line KV to 8M Writes/sec in One Week (While Learning C++)

Initial scope was simple: just make it fast. No fsync, no fancy durability. Just raw speed. I was bored. Asked AI "what should I build in C++?" It s…

Variables and Datatypes

Variables Data is stored in the memory. However, if I want to store certain data in a data block, I'll need to name it so I can call it specifically…

34.8k Stars Won't Put GTA VI on Your PC. Here's What AnyPS5 Is Actually Doing

Seeing GTA VI run on a PC before the official port would be a spectacular way to end the console exclusivity argument. So a project that promises to…

SLX RadioTwin: industrial radio propagation studies with C++ and Qt

Silicon LogiX introduces SLX RadioTwin , a desktop demonstrator for studying radio propagation in a three-dimensional industrial plant. The project…

[Перевод] Генератор парсеров ISPA

Этот пост написан для тех, кто глубоко погружён в разработку компиляторов или DSL, часто сталкивается с задачами парсинга, строит сложные конфигурац…

The Flush Printed a View After the Owner Died

A green debug run does not prove a view owns its bytes. Release can reuse that stack slot before the flush reads it. I start every split-brain crash…

Build the Patch as a Stranger: A Consumer-Link Gate for C++ Codegen

A packaging job can fail on a Thursday morning while the eval board stays green. In that pattern, the candidate patch repairs normalize() inside one…

UE5 Shader Optimization: Materials, Custom HLSL, and Global Shaders with RDG

When a material graph grows in Unreal Engine 5, it is tempting to ask: would writing HLSL directly make it faster? Would implementing the shader in…

Implementing Strict Priority and Deficit Round Robin Schedulers in NS-3

Stack: NS-3 · C++ · nlohmann/json · Wireshark When a router's outgoing link is slower than the traffic arriving at it, packets wait in a queue, and…

GEONMI-MEMS VLEO: How We Reduced Satellite Launch Weight by 40% Using Aero-Ionic Energy Harvesting and Deterministic C++17

Operating in Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO, at an altitude of approximately 250 km) offers superior latency and exceptional image clarity, yet it faces…

Porting Cowboy Casino to VileEngine

I am moving Cowboy Casino into VileEngine, the C++ engine I use for retro games. Cowboy Casino is a small role-playing game about walking into a wil…

The rules I build by

New here? Start with the overview . Before the rules, a debt. These are not mine alone; they are the labor of a whole career, and every one of them…

Building a MIL-STD-188-110 HF Modem in Modern C++: An Introduction

A weekly deep dive into a fixed-frequency serial-tone waveform, one block at a time. High-frequency (HF) radio is the communications system that ref…

Building the Capsize Audio Visualizer with C++ and Qt

I keep coming back to the Capsize Audio Visualizer because it is small enough to finish. It is a C++ and Qt desktop application that turns live audi…

Unreal C++ Course Chapter 114 - 115.

Very straight forward blueprint and C++ use of attack montages, I also included a check to see if the character state was unequipped, which looks li…

Pointers Aren't Arrows. How C and C++ Actually Talk to Hardware.

Ask any software engineer to draw a pointer on a whiteboard. Within three seconds, they will sketch two boxes and a little curved arrow pointing bet…

DSCI pipeline to build c++ project using cmake

📁 Repository layout . ├── .dsci/ │ ├── jobs.yaml # pipeline definition │ └── build_job/ # ── Job 1 – Build &amp; package │ ├── config.yaml # default…

In 2018 I hand-wrote a C++ deep learning framework so I'd never pad a batch. In 2023 LLM serving landed on the same structure.

There's a sentence in the README of a library I wrote that I've been thinking about lately: "To summarize, we believe that Padding-free Dynamic Batc…

Two Locks on a Green Build: Prompt Hashes and RSS Caps for AI C++ Evals

A patch landed with every assertion green. The return values matched the golden file. Then a latency dashboard moved: an inner loop that once touche…

I could not understand Express, so I wrote my own

Middleware chaining made no sense to me, so I rebuilt it in C++. A year later the profile said the slowest thing in my server was a map I rebuilt on…

I built IMFMSynth - 8-op FM x Wavetable Synthesizer

Hi everyone! This is Kaito Sato, an independent developer of IMFMSynth from Japan. I love FM synthesis. I grew up listening to everything from video…

(d+023) Triangle

삼각형 파이프라인 그래픽스 파이프라인이라는 의미를 이제는 어느정도 알듯 하다. 아직 체득한 것은 아니지만 확실히 그래픽은 순서에 따라 그려진다는 것을 인지하고 전체적인 흐름을 파악하고 있다. OpenGL 은 그래픽스 라이브러리 중에서도 아주 쉬운 그래픽스 라이브러리…

Same nvJPEG2000, different numbers: timer boundaries and frames in flight

This is an excerpt from a longer write-up, Fastvideo JPEG2000 vs nvJPEG2000 on NVIDIA RTX 4090 , which compares two GPU JPEG2000 codecs at the same…

From 3ms to 0ms: The Hidden Memory Trap in C++ Maps

From 3ms to 0ms: The Hidden Memory Trap in C++ Maps I thought I was writing the cleanest one-liner of my life. To solve Two Sum, I stored 1-based in…

When should a QWidget animation stop its timer?

A decorative animation can sit outside a scroll viewport while its widget still reports isVisible() == true . A timer that only checks that property…

Store Load Reordering: x86 vs ARM64, and the Bug Intel Was Hiding

Here is a bug report that keeps recurring, in different words, every time a team moves to ARM: "the same code works on our Intel CI and on the devel…

C++ Input Doesn't Have to Be Complicated: Word vs. Line Input with EasyIn

If you're learning C++, one surprisingly common source of confusion is input. Why does this: std :: cin &gt;&gt; text ; only read one word? Why does…