[notorandit]

This is not the first time I see people copy-typing text by hand instead of copy-pasting it.

I am not sure why they do that, but when I see a DevOps engineer doing it I have a chilling feel.

[dredmorbius]

Depends on the context.

If running code samples from a remote (untrusted) site, re-typing may spare you some grief.

I've addressed the homoglyph issue in my immediate prior comment. Other transcription errors are also of course possible with identifiers.

[account42]

How is it weird? It's often much faster to re-type a short identifier than to select, copy and paste it.

[canthonytucci]

They’re talking about likelihood of a typo, not speed.

[account42]

Well I guess hyper-focusing only on some motivations that affect the situation can make you confused about why others do certain things.