As Bill Gates tells the story, Warren Buffett once challenged him to a game of dice. Each would select one of four dice belonging to Buffett, and then they’d roll, with the higher number winning.

DAVIS, CALIFORNIA—A survey of cube-shaped dice dating back to the Roman era finds that they were not designed to have an equal chance of landing on different numbers until the Renaissance, according ...

We usually think of the terminal as something purely functional—tweaking Linux settings, installing updates, or running commands for work. And for most people, that’s where it ends. But the terminal ...