Ahh I deal with bare metal cloud companies that sell dedicated HEDTs so I was thinking that I'd be able to find even more HEDTs with great specs in a year's time as Threadrippers make their way through the market. People (including me) pay a premium for faster Intel cores and I'm excited to make the switch to slower, more plentiful AMD cores when I can, because I've invested in learning languages that do their best to handle parallelism well.
In practice the only difference between the dedicated servers of yesteryear and HEDTs of today is becoming perception (well and some very specific features), and considering computational load of most things hasn't actually gotten that much bigger, in addition to a proliferation of langauges that can adequately use multiple cores, feels like everything is looking to get cheaper yet better -- that's what excites me.
In practice the only difference between the dedicated servers of yesteryear and HEDTs of today is becoming perception (well and some very specific features), and considering computational load of most things hasn't actually gotten that much bigger, in addition to a proliferation of langauges that can adequately use multiple cores, feels like everything is looking to get cheaper yet better -- that's what excites me.