Creating infrastructure for supporting Bazel remote execution with rules_nixpkgs

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This post discusses the limitations of using rules_nixpkgs with remote execution in Bazel and presents a new remote execution infrastructure to overcome this limitation. It provides steps to achieve remote execution with rules_nixpkgs using Buildbarn and a NFS-based solution.