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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.

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.

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

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

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