Take abseil as a dependency

1. Add abseil-cpp as a submodule. We are tracking the latest LTS
release, which is lts_2024_01_16.
2. Replace glog/gflags with absl::log and absl::flags.
3. Remove miniglog
4. Also take a whack at making the bazel build work with
   abseil-cpp and gtest.

There are a number of TODOs in this CL that still need to be resolved.

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